I've been thinking about my own view of food and eating. In the past, I thought I knew that food was a physical need, when in fact, I've always based my food needs on cravings and desires. For example, when deciding what to eat for a meal, I usually think about what sounds good and what would taste good. These two questions have nothing to do with the physical need for food. Following this idea, on most days, I've taken eating, which is a physical need, and made it emotional and based on what I want. In doing this experiment, I've removed a lot of the emotional desire to eat. Right now, I know what I am allowed to eat and what I eat isn't based on just the desire for a specific food.
It's becoming easier to follow a specific food regime, and I did have some food freedom today. As was expected, my professor brought an array of snacks to our Wednesday night seminar. I nibbled on apples and caramel dip (yum!), pretzels, chips, and coke zero. Wednesday is quickly becoming my favorite day of the week because of the free food!
Besides eating free food, I also had oatmeal for breakfast (and for afternoon snack), pb&j for lunch, and ramen for dinner. One of my coworkers shared some hard candy with me at a meeting this afternoon too, so today was definitely a fun food day.
Here is what I spent on food today:
oatmeal- $0.14
pb&j- $0.32
ramen- $0.20
total -$0.66
yeah I can totally see that stretching the way you think about food - that's great really to think about the stuff we don't think about in our culture that still molds us into who we are. When I did the invisible child thing for a month you just wore one of two shirts. No picking thru the closet, and finding we don't need all these clothes! Good for you!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I love that you did the invisible child thing- that sounds awesome! I think it's really good for us to stretch ourselves- and do things that are uncomfortable....even though it's not always fun :0)
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