Reading about you and your past has brought a tear to my eye as it sounds as though we lived in the same household! I can truly understand every issue with image and food because I'm exactly the same.
Oh Becky how lovely to meet you and thanks so much for your kind words hun! I really do think that our upbringing has everything to do with our eating issues - when food is scarce we eat every crumb, so later in life, it becomes a comfort thing - and I find it very hard to unravel in my mind, particularly after hard times (two family deaths close together for me; your divorce and big living changes for you?). I realised how powerful it is just today - I was staring at the last mouthful of toast, thinking "I'm full, I don't need you" - but it's like dropping litter - I wouldn't do that in a million years, and the same slightly sick feeling was in me when I looked at the toast and contemplating leaving food on my plate! Which proves there's nothing silly about it at all, our minds are complicated beasties that can undermine oven the most determined character - so if NLP is the answer, so be it
If there is any tip it would be to forget EVERYTHING else about diets, calories, checks, points or syns and trust the rules. I think if I had stuck with it properly I would be 5-7 lbs lighter rather than the same heavier!
That's an excellent tip, hun - I do like making really healthy smoothies and soups, but will view them in a different way. Not much chewing going on there, though, do you think that will be a problem? I just want to make sure I get my leafy greens in. And thanks for the tip on Jessica Smith, I'll check her out!
my taste has changed. I now crave spicy food, and my love for veggies has heightened. In fact, I kept getting this "hunch" for weeks, that I should try being an ovo-lacto vegetarian. So I gave it a try. It's my second day of being ovo-lacto, while ofcourse applying the rules, and I can already feel my clothes loosening. Its so weird I have not craved chicken, beef or fish in 48 hours!!! I'll keep you updated on the progress. It is NOT a diet though cause I AM eating everyyyything I want... and enjoying it... Mmmmmmmmmmmmm..... Veggies! Who would have thought you could enjoy veggies that much ?
Hi Lionesque and nice to meet you! That's so fab that you are following your food "hunch" and that it's working out so well for you
I did low carb for two years and ate loads of protein - but now I have pretty much stopped eating meat (maybe fish once a week, sausages occasionally) too and feel much better for it. I still eat carbs for the fibre, although they can make me very windiepops (not such a good thing in the office lol), I love eggs, and like you I'm eating a load of veg - here's some of my favourites -
- cauli mash and rice
- courgetti (courgette spaghetti - I make mine with a gadget called a spiralo, one of the best things I've ever bought - Amazon)
- courgette and aubergine strips for lasagne
- summer salad soup - it's from the skinny soup maker kindle book, using a Waring soup maker (you'll see a gadget theme emerging as you get to know me lol) - I can send you the recipe, but essentially it's courgette, romaine lettuce, chard, peas, celery, spring onions and fennel (mmmm), plus herbs - and oh golly the flavour is lovely!
Good luck with your WL journeys ladies! Susie xx
