03-09-2010, 06:29 PM
Okay...
I've been trying to improve my eating habits for a while now. I've pretty much been a meatatarian most of my life, eating mostly meats and carbs. My super-fast metabolism has allowed me to avoid the most obvious side effects of this kind of diet (being fat), but I've always known it was pretty bad for me. All of my past attempts to change my eating habits have failed somewhat miserably. I’d be more careful about it for a few days and then crave my old favorites and go right back to where I was with a vengeance.
However, within the past week, something has happened to me. I’ve become a vegetarian…pretty much by force, and pretty much overnight. It’s not that I *tried* to stop eating meat. I just suddenly couldn’t. It suddenly seems nasty to me. I am unable to eat it. My husband and I went to a Chinese buffet…I pay 8 bucks to get in, and end up eating nothing but pineapple slices because I literally could not get the chicken down. Then I tried shrimp…same results. It was very hard to not just spit it back out, and normally I love that stuff. The most meat I’ve been able to eat lately is a little fish, and even that didn’t go well.
Just about all I ever want now is fruits and veggies and some whole grains, and I’m eating a LOT less. Suddenly eating seems so much less important. Two small meals a day is comfortable for me. I’ve also become a lot more aware of the energies in foods. When I do eat it has become a spiritual exercise for me.
Now, I’m not complaining. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, but it’s always been so hard, and now suddenly it’s like someone re-routed all the wires in my head. The little voices in my head have been urging me (somewhat vehemently sometimes), to become vegetarian for a good while now, and now I get the sense that they’re saying: “Okay, it’s time now. Time to get serious. You’ve had time to adjust and now you need to take this seriously because big stuff is coming up and this will help you.” It almost feels like someone else is controlling my mind in the area of food, but not in a bad way.
Over all, it’s just WEIRD. My husband is kind of freaked out. At first he thought I was just joking around but now that he’s seen it last this ling he almost seems a little worried. I’m just wondering what could have sparked the sudden change…how my entire way of perceiving food could change in the blink of an eye.
Has anyone else experienced stuff like this?
I've been trying to improve my eating habits for a while now. I've pretty much been a meatatarian most of my life, eating mostly meats and carbs. My super-fast metabolism has allowed me to avoid the most obvious side effects of this kind of diet (being fat), but I've always known it was pretty bad for me. All of my past attempts to change my eating habits have failed somewhat miserably. I’d be more careful about it for a few days and then crave my old favorites and go right back to where I was with a vengeance.
However, within the past week, something has happened to me. I’ve become a vegetarian…pretty much by force, and pretty much overnight. It’s not that I *tried* to stop eating meat. I just suddenly couldn’t. It suddenly seems nasty to me. I am unable to eat it. My husband and I went to a Chinese buffet…I pay 8 bucks to get in, and end up eating nothing but pineapple slices because I literally could not get the chicken down. Then I tried shrimp…same results. It was very hard to not just spit it back out, and normally I love that stuff. The most meat I’ve been able to eat lately is a little fish, and even that didn’t go well.
Just about all I ever want now is fruits and veggies and some whole grains, and I’m eating a LOT less. Suddenly eating seems so much less important. Two small meals a day is comfortable for me. I’ve also become a lot more aware of the energies in foods. When I do eat it has become a spiritual exercise for me.
Now, I’m not complaining. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, but it’s always been so hard, and now suddenly it’s like someone re-routed all the wires in my head. The little voices in my head have been urging me (somewhat vehemently sometimes), to become vegetarian for a good while now, and now I get the sense that they’re saying: “Okay, it’s time now. Time to get serious. You’ve had time to adjust and now you need to take this seriously because big stuff is coming up and this will help you.” It almost feels like someone else is controlling my mind in the area of food, but not in a bad way.
Over all, it’s just WEIRD. My husband is kind of freaked out. At first he thought I was just joking around but now that he’s seen it last this ling he almost seems a little worried. I’m just wondering what could have sparked the sudden change…how my entire way of perceiving food could change in the blink of an eye.
Has anyone else experienced stuff like this?
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