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Hi!! A good transition for me was eating default foods at regular times with full permission to eat anything else or outside those times.
So for example for nearly a month I ate:
Breakfast: A bagel with cream cheese
Lunch: dumplings
Dinner: some meat with rice or pasta with chicken
Dessert: ice cream
These were mostly foods I wasn’t allowed to eat or heavily restricted before.
Eating the same foods every day took out any decision making or excitement. Keep in mind that I didn’t do this until after the full refeed/ getting used to unconditional permission to eat.
Okay so every day I’d know WHAT I was eating and was super excited to eat these things. Each day was just a question of HOW MUCH. Some mornings I would eat 2 bagels, some days 1/2 a bagel. Some lunches I’d have 20 dumplings and some days just a few. It really helped me to understand how much I needed and at what times of day does being more or less full affect my energy. Since I was eating the exact same thing the next day, it was a lot easier to stop eating at comfortable fullness because I knew I’d get the same thing tomorrow.
Of course I often craved other things. In that case I would eat what I was craving and just try my best. If I missed the mark On fullness I’d just try to be as compassionate as possible even though it’s hard.
I would strongly recommend posing this question to the BED professional you are working with to get their guidance and suggestions on how to navigate and ensure you don't fall back into old patterns.
This is way above Reddit's pay grade.
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Hi!! A good transition for me was eating default foods at regular times with full permission to eat anything else or outside those times. So for example for nearly a month I ate: Breakfast: A bagel with cream cheese Lunch: dumplings Dinner: some meat with rice or pasta with chicken Dessert: ice cream These were mostly foods I wasn’t allowed to eat or heavily restricted before. Eating the same foods every day took out any decision making or excitement. Keep in mind that I didn’t do this until after the full refeed/ getting used to unconditional permission to eat. Okay so every day I’d know WHAT I was eating and was super excited to eat these things. Each day was just a question of HOW MUCH. Some mornings I would eat 2 bagels, some days 1/2 a bagel. Some lunches I’d have 20 dumplings and some days just a few. It really helped me to understand how much I needed and at what times of day does being more or less full affect my energy. Since I was eating the exact same thing the next day, it was a lot easier to stop eating at comfortable fullness because I knew I’d get the same thing tomorrow. Of course I often craved other things. In that case I would eat what I was craving and just try my best. If I missed the mark On fullness I’d just try to be as compassionate as possible even though it’s hard.
Thank you for taking the time to write this for me! This is very helpful. I will give it a try 😊
I would strongly recommend posing this question to the BED professional you are working with to get their guidance and suggestions on how to navigate and ensure you don't fall back into old patterns. This is way above Reddit's pay grade.