Does anyone really listen to their body?

I love bread, especially wholemeal and granary...nope, can't do without that. It's got lots of fibre = good in moderation.

How do you make sammies without bread? I listen to my body about 80% of the time and usually it saying chill on the couch and eat bread.

I don't get that phrase at all. ~*Listening to my body*~ is what made me a chubster.

I can do life without an entire baguette and butter for dinner, but I am not willing to give up bread.

I dont really like bread anyway except when its a vehicle for bacon, lettuce and tomatoes.

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I love bread but bread doesn't love me... It makes me bloated and causes addictive behaviours so I try to avoid it!! Listening to my body would be a disaster because it just sends messages to my head to eat, eat, eat...

I listen to my body to an extent. If it tells me I am constantly hungry I look at my eating habits to see where I am going wrong. If it tells me I am tired i evaluate my sleep and exercise routine.

If it tells me to have chocolate, I tell it to shut the hell up.

Seriously though, I am of the belief that if you are craving something it is generally your body telling you you are missing something. You my crave chocolate - it doesn't mean your body is missing chocolate, but it probably means you are missing something contained within chocolate that your body knows it gets from there.

I tried listening to my body. All it did was make funny noises.

"listen to your body" is pretty much a nice way of saying no excuses! Do what's best for your body to keep you healthy! If you eat fat-filled fast food, you will get a stomach ache, so stay away from that. If you're over-doing your work-outs, you will be extremely sore, so take a break for a day. That's what I see as listening to my body. I don't think it has anything to do with "living without bread." People have been eating bread for as long as time and the population in the past wasn't a obese as the current population. It's all the other crap that the food industry tries to pump our bodies with. And the fact that fast food is easier to get and cheaper than healthy food.Obviously, you don't want to sit and munch on a whole loaf of bread, but our bodies need carbs to function and it's silly to think that cutting out carbs is going to fix all your problems.

Only when I fart :explode:

I think if you're "listening to your body" you also have to use your brain and separate actual needs from cravings/wants. Like, just because I feel like drinking alcohol to excess doesn't mean I should. It probably just means I need to de-stress. Same thing with food cravings. I know for me they're usually a reaction to stress. If your stomach is growling, "listen" and eat. But also be wise about it. Just because you're legitimately hungry doesn't mean you also need to gorge on the ice cream you're craving. If your body is tired and sore, you might need to take a break from exercise for a day or two. At the same time "I don't feel like it" isn't a good reason to consistently avoid exercise (unless, of course, there's an underlying medical issue going on). So listen to your body, but also use your brain.

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"listen to your body" is pretty much a nice way of saying no excuses! Do what's best for your body to keep you healthy! If you eat fat-filled fast food, you will get a stomach ache, so stay away from that. If you're over-doing your work-outs, you will be extremely sore, so take a break for a day. That's what I see as listening to my body. I don't think it has anything to do with "living without bread." People have been eating bread for as long as time and the population in the past wasn't a obese as the current population. It's all the other crap that the food industry tries to pump our bodies with. And the fact that fast food is easier to get and cheaper than healthy food.Obviously, you don't want to sit and munch on a whole loaf of bread, but our bodies need carbs to function and it's silly to think that cutting out carbs is going to fix all your problems.

Reducing carb intake is a strategy that works for the SAD because most us either did eat or still eat much more than we need and carbs make up most of that intake. The net of that is that by reducing carbs and increasing protein for example, changes the nutritional profile and the result can be, with the right numbers over time, weight loss AND body shape changes if you are doing the work, whatever your choice of work is, it generally doesn't matter.

Cutting out most processed carbs, it's too tough to cut them all out all the time, can be a helpful program for some people. No one needs to "give up" anything, although I admit I took a pretty hard line for a time, let's say 6 months.

Although I agree with your post that the food industry has brought us many potential ills, they are not forcing us to buy it and eat it. I spent many years doing so myself. The food industry has also brought us some amazing innovation and ways to get almost anything to our table anytime, safely, and at an extremely low relative price.

These days, if I think I might be subjected to being stuck in a place with bad food the only food available, I try to bring my own when practical. All it takes for me to avoid bad food is a mental image of those 3 year old burgers and fries from whatever company it is, that display absolutely no effects of degradation- No mold, they look the same as the day they were served. If that is not enough to make you rethink ingesting that stuff, then nothing will.