One slightly surprising side-effect of more embodied awareness is that I eat far, far less food than before.
I can't eat more than two meals a day, often just one. It just feels terrible. Overall almost halved my food consumption.
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Still eat too many sweets, but that feels likely to go as well.
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There's no real ethical or nutritional dimension to this choice. Body just doesn't feel right otherwise.
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I suspect the underlying reason is that comfort eating - which is really what a lot of habitual eating under abundance conditions is - is dissociative.
It's a way to avoid a lot of specific feelings and body conditions. But in itself, it's overeating, and overeating feels bad.
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There's no real metabolic reason for continually stuffing your face with food.
It's mostly psychological, or psychosomatic.
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(Yes, yes, caveats apply - nobody has the same body as anyone else.)
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Word. When you cut away certain conditioning, one effect seems to be a massive increase in mental clarity.
I find my reasoning and self-expression are a lot less cloudy, lately. It's more... crisp?