3 Near Universal Meal Plan Principles - Synthesizing Intuitive Eating and Overeaters Anonymous
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Are you struggling to find a meal plan that works for you? Do you feel like every diet out there is too restrictive? Or, do you find that structure is actually what you need most!
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts Jared! I am interested in hearing them. I applaud you for opening up to new perspectives! And for your plea for introspection.
I wrote a complete novel in response to what you shared in the video but I think I might better not post it here.
I just want to say that for me there is no choice with regard to what approach to follow. I tried other methods over and over, tried intituive eating, but my conclusion is that I am a food addict and the only choice I have is to either eliminate sugar, flour and trigger foods - or die an untimely death after a very difficult life.
I use a meal plan that leaves 4-6 hours between meals and that consists of healthy foods (lots of veggies, fruit, beans, whole grains, nuts). While I find it very difficult to be on this food plan, living with active food addiction is (much) worse.
I would like to point out that OA as I understand it, is focused on compulsive overeating, not food addiction. It's FAA, Greysheeters and FA that operate from the concept of food addiction. To me it is not OA versus IE but I would rather word the controversy as elimination versus moderation.
@jessi Yes I saw your other comment earlier, but I forget the gist of it, although this comment is similar. I am definitely curious to learning your perspectives, I remember reading something about the 4-6 hour guideline not being applicable for overeaters? I may have read wrong but was curious what you meant? I could see 3 hours a minimum timeframe (as a common time all dietary approaches agree on).
Admittedly not entirely sure how to phrase this principle of regular eating. Something about eating regularly, at least breakfast lunch and dinner.
But yes. I hear you. The elimination plan / approach is DEFINITELY VALID.
I am not sure whether it's 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 or what not, because we can get caught up in numbers all day long. It might be more!
I also think you are pointing out something good too, that's it not really OA which speaks about food addiction. But doesn't it? The powerlessness over food? Maybe that's the compulsive part. Ah, I see, yes, the compulsiveness, I see, that's what OA is about.
That is good to distinguish. Thank you.
@@EatingEnlightenment Thanks Jared... What I meant regarding the 4-6hour meal gaps... A food addict, as I see it, can only have meal gaps that long IF they abstain from sugar, flour and other foods that trigger overeating / bingeing in them.
So it does apply - but ONLY combined with abstinence from trigger foods.
So yes, the meal gaps may be a common ground in many / most food plans...
And another common ground is that the majority of food eaten should be a good balance of vegatbles, fruit and protein (and often, whole grains) with some (healthy) fats. But, again: a non-food addict can have SOME processed food with sugar and flour and junk. But for a food addict having limited amounts of 'treats' (junk, sugar, flour) would mean that they cannot stick to those limits. So healthy foods are a common ground, yes, but a food addict can ONLY eat a diet consisting of mostly healthy food combined with abstinence from the trigger foods.
So as I see it, abstinence is a condition for a food addict to be able to stick to 4-6 hour meal gaps, and to be able to eat lots of vegetables and fruit and other healthy foods.
If there is no abstinence,the addict will continue to crave unhealthy foods and binge (on abstinent or nonabstinent food). In other words to be able to perform those two 'common ground rules' of eating lots of veggies and fruit etcetera, and of having 4-6 hour meal gaps, there must be abstinence or the food addict won't be able to do it (at least, not for long).
I hope this helps.
And yes, OA as I understood it, looks at bingeing and overeating as a compulsion, so a behavioral addiction, (like shopping and sex addiction and gambling) while FAA and FA and other groups and BLE describe the problem as a SUBSTANCE addiction (like drug addiction and alcoholism).
@@JCtoday303 beautifully explained! I hear you I believe. I hear you that abstinence is a prerequisite for the food addict, if they wish to also eat regularly.
Well said about the veggies, nutritious foods and so forth, that was the essence of the third principle "eating variety".
Maybe can be better said "eating a variety of nutritious foods" or something like that
One thing I'll just gently push back on is that the abstinence would not be a common ground with the majority of other dietary approaches, at least as I am viewing the current landscape of dietary approaches. I could be wrong here.
So totally a valid approach for food addicts and so forth.
You might want to check out my interview with Mike on my channel, he was talking about sugar addiction and yeah, we had a great conversation.
But yeah I would just not say it's common to the majority of meal plans but that's just me
@@EatingEnlightenment Thanks Jared... re: abstinence not being a common ground... nope, but I didn't mean to state that it was. Of course many commercial diets, diet books etcetera will not recommend abstinence as most people would not go for it!
Going for Gentle hunger I noticed last night before I went to sleep I could’ve went back in the kitchen to eat but it’s good to go to bed with a gentle hunger Maybe that was thirst
Did you ever get to a point where you actually said what you said you were going to say? I had to stop at 6 minutes. 6 minutes of hearing what I'm going to hear but then never heard. Ugh.