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2/20/2017 11:20:30 AM | Dear Karen, Thank you for your latest post and for being so honest about the sugar cravings you've experienced. I think its so helpful for people to read how strong a battle we are in and how the organism, whatever it is, will fight to continue to live. It was very surprising to me how strategic the cravings for sugar were and how they came at their strongest when I was at my weakest, physically and emotionally. It may be helpful to use a technique called threshold thinking, where you capture your thoughts immediately and question them putting them up against your own standard of whether they are acceptable or not. We have to see that just because a thought enters our head, it is not necessarily from us, or a good thing to keep thinking and if not, it can be rejected and replaced with truth. I do believe that the organism can attack us in our thoughts and bodies giving us cravings for sugar. It is helpful to me to have things to eat that I enjoy, like the almond fudge and fairy cakes. I also make crackers based on a recipe from Nan. In the middle of a crisis with my elderly mum with none of my food available and tempted to go back to what I would normally do - eat chocolate bars to keep me going - it was really tough and I just survived on almonds. Now I try to be better prepared and have stocks in the freezer to take out with me at short notice. If I'm eating with friends I'll take some of my own crackers and a protocol friendly biscuit or cake so that I don't feel deprived. Also you could mentally rehearse a situation, like your birthday meal, in advance and imagine every step of it and see your friends eating the cake and you eating your own cake and enjoying watching them enjoy it but being satisfied with what you are eating. Rehearse how you are going to feel, what you are going to say at each moment. That's what I do when I make birthday cakes for family members, cakes for friends or church, or desserts for special occasions like Christmas. I always make sure that if I can't eat anything at the time that I know that I have had something to make up for missing out on it either before or after. Two years ago I ate chocolate most days, my lunch was usually coffee and cake if I was out and I generally cooked the food I liked to eat. I've had to learn that its ok to cook food and not eat it if its no good for me. I just make sure I have something different that I really like. Thank you again for your honesty and I know that it will be so helpful for people to relate to. Let us know how you get on. God bless Ruth |
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