Z and I wandered the aisles of the supermarket today because I had no clue what to buy for dinner. Absolutely. No. Clue.
It seriously took me 20 minutes of walking around and eyeing the Life Cereal stand before I succumbed to the fact that Life was the only thing interesting me. Out of the entire supermarket.
So yay, I guess? I listened to my body and bought what it wanted. But I have to admit - I am a bit angry with my body for wanting Life Cereal and not steak or something more meal-like. I am trying to feel the pleasure in listening to my body and cravings and respecting them. But that’s being drowned by my dislike for what I truly wanted. But I will keep plugging along with acceptance.
How do you tell the difference between what your body wants and what your mind thinks is right? And how do you even know your body wants something specific? Your stomach doesn’t do the thinking for you. Your brain decides what to eat. I don’t understand this listen to your body concept. Can you elaborate?
I’m still working on that, so good questions. Although, if it was as simple as my brain telling me what to eat (without any input from my body) then I don’t think I would need this blog or any IE resources at all. And breaking away from from the mind “thinks is right” is what is known as legalizing foods.
In When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies, the authors discuss trusting your “internal caretaker” to help feed you and treat your body, cravings, etc… with respect. So that’s what I chose to do last night.
Now, I didn’t totally respect what happened - I did feel some anger that cereal is what I wanted. But it honestly was and I’ll just need to learn how to truly trust this internal caretaker and roll with it.
I’m not sure if that helped clarify anything (I am writing this first thing in the morning - foggy head). The book mentioned and Googling IE would bring up a lot of info as well.