One thing that you have really truly learned

[Guest guest]

Hi all you wonderful folks on this journey of discovering ourselves through the

practice of eating! What in ONE thing that you feel like you have really truly

learned in this journey?

For me it is the idea that my mind really " doesn't know best " , and that my body

really will tell me when I need to eat. I'm finding that I am still eating

things that my mind told me I shouldn't, but that after a morning of snacking on

candy corn and malted milk balls, if I just listen to my body, then, since I

obviously wasn't in the process of eating all that, that it will tell me when

and what to eat again. I think I have spent the past 40 years thinking (with my

mind) that when I felt yucky from eating things like candy or cookies, that I'd

feel better if I ate some " good " food, so I'd eat lunch or supper or make myself

a healthy snack, and it never worked. And for the past several weeks, on those

occasions, I,ve been waiting, and listening, and my body says, no, I don't want

lunch now, or now, or now, but then sooner or later, I get hungry again, and

lunch sounds good. Today, which I have off work, I had a bowl of cereal early

when I was hungry, and then a couple hours later made some really yummy

rye/buckwheat/cornmeal/pecan/raisin pancakes, which I was also hungry for, and a

couple hours later, at lunchtime, when I was going to go out and work in my

community garden plot, my mind was saying " you should have lunch now, because

it's lunchtime, and surely you must be hungry, and if you're not now, you will

be soon, and you won't be able to get much work done, " but instead of eating

lunch, I consulted with my body, which said, " no, I'm still completely

satisfied, " so I went and worked for several hours and was fine. I don't think

I'm going to forget this. I actually don,t think I ever really knew this

before....

What lesson have you learned lately?

Tilley