Tag: intuitive eating

Stop! It’s Calorie Time

It’s come to this.

Old chicks like me will get the reference. Suffice to say that while I’m pleased to feel satisfied with this way of eating, and while I’m not gaining weight, I don’t seem to be losing any, either.

(Deep breath.) It’s calorie time.

I use My Fitness Pal because it’s free, and I’ve been down this road before, but never with whole foods as the basis of my eating plan. It was always “well, I have three hundred calories for lunch, how about a few cookies?”

So we’ll see how I feel this time around. I’m being sensible about my calories: 1500. If I swerve either way from that number just a tad I’m not too concerned, but I’m concerned about my health, and I do feel the need to lose some weight sooner rather than later.

Wish me luck. And be sure to leave me a comment below. Do you believe in calorie counting? Yes/no?

I Know When I’m Full

Whoa. Head blown.

Here’s something interesting I’ve been noticing lately.

A (very little) background: I have always had problems with bingeing and restricting. I’ve never been an in-the-middle person.

One issue I seem to have is that I never know I’m REALLY full. I mean, I feel when my stomach is starting to fill up, but…when am I really “done”? It just goes on and on.

Taking highly processed foods and artificial sweeteners, wheat, and dairy out of my diet, I get that “I’m done” feeling that I’ve had maybe a handful of times my entire life.

I get worried because I’m hungry – and what if I just overeat until I explode? But then I eat whatever it is I was eyeing, grain-free granola or fruit or chicken or whatever it is, and I finish and…I’m done.

I’m full.

Amazing.

One reason I’ve never been able to go all-in on intuitive eating is that I don’t have that “all done” button, somehow. But I have read that with hyper-processed foods, these can override that normal satiety response, so you just keep munching. The food manufacturers do have to make money, you know. Dolla dolla bills y’all.

Interestingly, unless it’s some sort of psyching-myself-out thing, without those particular foods I do find I know when I’m finished.

Very cool stuff, this.