: Hi Everybody:

In response to Barbara's amazing insight id just like to say how enlightening and confirmative her discovery was for me. im new here today but my experiences around food are 66 years old and it was only a few weeks ago that the penny finally clicked about even the most healthy foods ( im plant based).
Barbara i could relate to every word you said plus for me reading this week Potatos not prozac has been so beneficial and i really need to do the steps to sort out my eating as much as possible pre death. i love my life which was given to me via Bariatic surgery 14 years go but my weights been creeping up the last few years so now im 8kg over my desired weight and at 66 need to eat less and not be frightened of being hungry !!

I am delighted to be joining you all on this marvellous journey of self discovery and radiant life.
Enjoy your day new freinds.

: Less - Say Goodbye to
: Overeating" by Gillian Riley.
: Although this book came out a
: couple of decades ago, I had never
: heard of it.

: By reading this book I realized I was
: addicted to food QUANTITY. In
: short I was eating way too much
: food to lose weight. But when I
: limited my food intake, I felt
: hungry and deprived, even right
: after a full meal. This was not
: carbohydrate craving from blood
: sugar or brain chemistry, which I
: knew well. "Eating Less"
: explains this is caused by a
: neurological pathway from the
: "survival" part of your
: brain (hindbrain and medulla) sent
: to your "decision
: making" part of your brain
: (frontal cortex) saying "You
: must eat or else you will starve
: to death". Or it may be
: hunger triggered by a sensory
: memory. Either way, it is
: basically a "habit" of
: brain thinking you are hungry when
: you are not. I call it Phantom
: Hunger. It took a while to be able
: to distinguish my hunger signals
: as just a habitual thought. Not
: only did they FEEL real, I
: experienced REAL physical hunger,
: REAL gnawing in my stomach - even
: after completing a full meal. But
: I learned to realize it was not
: true hunger and did not ignore it
: or try make it go away - I just
: breathed deeply and sat with it
: and realizing, "this is
: uncomfortable, but in time it will
: go away." And slowly but
: surely, it did. I continue to
: reset my neurological pathways not
: to inundate my thoughts with
: Phantom Hunger. As such, I eat far
: less food, have far more energy
: and at last, after all these
: years, the weight is coming off.

: I would be SO interested in your
: thoughts, Kathleen!!

: With much love and gratitude,
: Barbara Rosenberg