Relationship with food?

[is76]

rather interesting I have been experimenting with the food I have been eating since my first post.

I have always loved fruit and veg and cut out processed crap a few years ago. However over the past few week I have been eating much more naturally. Plenty of fruit/veg/lean protein and reducing wheat and diary. As I result I felt great and energised. I was waking up before my alarm clock and had not urges or cravings for chocolates etc. However the last couple of night I have been out with friends and eaten mince pies,cake etc. What a complete difference. Waking up in the morning I feel like I have a food hangover and so sluggish.

So maybe I am finally starting to listen to my body and I am realising more than ever the foods that make me feel energised.

As an aside I was in the supermarket and looking all she shelves stacked with xmas food. Yuck! My poor digestion almost ground to a halt looking at it.

So any more stories to share?

[Crankin]

I would say I am more like Grog. I love to eat, love to cook, and I really don't eat any junk either. I will spend money on fresh fruit in the winter or good cheese and I really don't even look at the price, because it's healthy and better than eating candy.

I started exercising and eating this way almost 30 years ago, when after I got my first teaching job, which included the benefit of a "free" home cooked lunch at a residential school, my dad said, "you're getting a little porky, Robyn." Not nice, but true. I am 5' 1" and never had to watch what I eat until then. I get annoyed when people make comments about how disciplined I am or that I am like some kind of super freaky person because I don't sit down and eat a bag of chips on a regular basis. I go out to eat a lot and I love to cook. I plan for times when I know I might have something that will make me gain and I allow myself a range of acceptable weight. If my clothes start feeling tight, then I do something.