Re: Keeping an Eye Open...taste memory

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Wow, Tilley, this post sounds great. Wasn't it just a week or so ago you wrote one titled "I'm So Discouraged?" This is great!Ellie To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 11:00 PM

Subject: Re: Keeping an Eye Open...taste memory

I used to feel like that (not having stuff in the house) but I decided that since I was no longer going to weigh myself that I would try to always have yummy treats readily available, and it really didn't take all that long for them to lose their magic. I have some of my all-time favorites--like pecan pie--actually in the house, and it is really nice knowing that I can have some of it whenever I want. It's still really delicious, and I know that it's a food that I trully love, but it's just that. Nothing more. No special power at all. But I think a huge part of that no longer having special power is that it's there.

A funny thing is that for some reason, that losing of power has extended out into the rat of the world. I go to a party, and I can look very objectively at all the sweets and decide if I really want any of them. I have to admit that almost nothing compares to my pecan pie in the freezer. Maybe a slice of chocolate cheesecake (but not too much, since chocolate really does give me migraines), but that might be about it. This is a totally new feeling for me. Also, I know that when this discussion went around before I said that I only bought my boys chips if they would agree to keep that in the pantry and not on top of the fridge where I'd be tempted to grab a handful every time I walk through the kitchen. Well, they're on the fridge now, and I hardly ever have any. A few times I've gotten a few, but they didn't really taste all that great, especially compared to.....(fill that in with anything that you're currently finding really delicious--for me it

was a chicken sandwich on sesame bread with sweet relish), so why bother.

That's really it, then. When you allow yourself to always eat what you really want to eat (chocolate cheesecake and all), then you have no desire to eat the things you don't really want to eat, but used to always eat. I know that,s what folks have been saying all along, but I don't think I ever truly believed it until this moment. Wow.

My partner and I came home from a party last night where I didn't overeat at all (very likely a first), and we're both thinking that we needed fruit, so we drove to a 24 hour grocery store and bought clementines which I really wanted and pomegranates which he really wanted.

I am encouraged.

Tilley

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Wow, Tilley, this post sounds great. Wasn't it just a week or so ago you wrote one titled "I'm So Discouraged?" This is great!Ellie To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 11:00 PM

Subject: Re: Keeping an Eye Open...taste memory

I used to feel like that (not having stuff in the house) but I decided that since I was no longer going to weigh myself that I would try to always have yummy treats readily available, and it really didn't take all that long for them to lose their magic. I have some of my all-time favorites--like pecan pie--actually in the house, and it is really nice knowing that I can have some of it whenever I want. It's still really delicious, and I know that it's a food that I trully love, but it's just that. Nothing more. No special power at all. But I think a huge part of that no longer having special power is that it's there.

A funny thing is that for some reason, that losing of power has extended out into the rat of the world. I go to a party, and I can look very objectively at all the sweets and decide if I really want any of them. I have to admit that almost nothing compares to my pecan pie in the freezer. Maybe a slice of chocolate cheesecake (but not too much, since chocolate really does give me migraines), but that might be about it. This is a totally new feeling for me. Also, I know that when this discussion went around before I said that I only bought my boys chips if they would agree to keep that in the pantry and not on top of the fridge where I'd be tempted to grab a handful every time I walk through the kitchen. Well, they're on the fridge now, and I hardly ever have any. A few times I've gotten a few, but they didn't really taste all that great, especially compared to.....(fill that in with anything that you're currently finding really delicious--for me it

was a chicken sandwich on sesame bread with sweet relish), so why bother.

That's really it, then. When you allow yourself to always eat what you really want to eat (chocolate cheesecake and all), then you have no desire to eat the things you don't really want to eat, but used to always eat. I know that,s what folks have been saying all along, but I don't think I ever truly believed it until this moment. Wow.

My partner and I came home from a party last night where I didn't overeat at all (very likely a first), and we're both thinking that we needed fruit, so we drove to a 24 hour grocery store and bought clementines which I really wanted and pomegranates which he really wanted.

I am encouraged.

Tilley

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way to go Tilley!

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way to go Tilley!

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way to go Tilley!