Food?

What do I want from food?

• Flavour
• Excitement
• I identify with food
• Weight loss
• Health
• Energy

At the end of the day I want food to make me happy. I want to feel happy while I’m eating and I want to feel happy after I’ve eaten and I want to feel happy in other areas of my life and I feel I can’t when I’m carrying extra weight.

My biggest problem is planning ahead for all my meals (essentially for the rest of my life by becoming ‘vegan’ ‘801010’ ‘sugar free’ etc. and identifying with an ideology). At the end of the day all diets and ways of eating are ideologies because we have so much CHOICE that we get to identify with IDEAS ABOUT FOOD. What I need to do is 

1. Stop planning what I’ll eat next meal, tomorrow, next week
2. Eat every meal exactly AS I FEEL. If I feel like chocolate I will eat chocolate. If I feel like pineapple juice I will have that. I need to listen to my body. 
3. Stop cutting things out. When i cut out fat I crave it so I cut out sugar and then crave it! 

I found the above notes on my computer. Pretty astute. If only I could pay attention!!