u/plnnyOfallOFit

I get so much push back from peers.

-a little won't kill you

-are you phobic of eating calories

-live a little, eat what you want

-do you have an eating disorder?

However, i promise the experiment of cold turkey quitting was HUGE

Of course i lost weight, only because i do other things besides feel bogged down by a toxic substance. I'm not on annoying fad diet. I'm just eating recognizable food.

Did you think you'd actually get back to normal regarding nutrition??

Hiking w a friend, he was flummoxed as I don't eat dates as part of sugar free. He kept asking over & over. I just said, "I eat whole fruits and sparingly, i don't eat concentrated sugary fruits. No biggie"

He brought them to my house and stood in front of me begging me to eat them, and i kept saying, "no thanks". Then he said, "i got it. You're phobic of calories. YOu have an eating disrorder".

Painful then, now i just don't bother w that person.

Your turn!

as a free range kid, i ate sugar this or that ever since i had the pocket change.

Never noticed i lived on junk till i quit cold turkey

This past vacation i was so used to packing my own lunch & making coffee at home...I didn't waste tons of money & didn't leave a trail of plastic junk from take away or soda etc

Meal prep is cheaper than the process of getting fast food.

It's an hard thing & ppl think i have orthorexia- but my palate changed. No way in He doulble L am i wasting money on that lifestyle anymore.

• repulsed by junk food, crave dense nutrition-
• true palate transformation
• emotional regulation no longer a mystery
• body image comes from the inside out, no longer the other way 'round.
• no more rando body pain- feels like i dodged a type of fibermyalgia

I do public broadcasting or streaming free things from la biblioteca.

Or any other free service? No spend no problem, just sad i missed season 2 of gilded age

Just reading about heavy metals in most junk food & sugar food.

mercury, cadmium, lead....are highly associated with illness & dementia!!

NO way in HELL do i want to speed up dementia.

Luckily, my hard won sugar free palate is transformed.

I do not want crap food at all. Just actual life giving medicine food. It's no longer a struggle

Any other bonus items you've discovered??

Traumatised by the Dorothy Hamill haircut here. So haven't willingly cut my hair at a salon in adult life...'cept

in the 90s shaved during a bad LSD trip. (doesn't count. Just an experiment gone wrong....or right, zero STIs in college, cuz, zero sx)

Now old as F with long silver witchy hair. Am so secretly smug about it... but DO NOT rcv favorable reactions.

Do i give any Fs? I just might? Not sure...

Ok. Honest talk, am not on dating aps, but onea my friends told me tons of bios read: "if you've gone silver don't bother to respond".

Also a few of my old friends are literally angry w me for having the long natural hair.

I think i've changed because the feedback i get is :"you're too pretty for silver hair". I've changed cuz "pretty" just ain't the focus.

I haven't thought about "pretty" in a decade. I get hit on by other olds, but just not interested. I have good solo life

Gen x ladies. ARe you down w the crone or in the silver shaming camp?

The discussion was emotional regulation. The presentation showed the Polyvagus theory of feeling triggered and the spectrum of fight or flight to rest/digest.

It was very complicated & presented tons of techniques.

I shared how personally/anecdotally, how detoxing from sugar has given me the gift of emotional regulation. It's no longer a mystery or a "step by step" intellectual process. My sense of calm & 'that pause' comes naturally because i fuel myself with dense nutrition vs junk

I literally next stated i'm not in favor of diet culture, but in favor of meeting unique nutritional needs

this 2nd part was NOT HEARD.

I got eyerolls, esp from ppl drinking juice and eating cookies out of a box. (lots of snack breaks at this conf, like it's. normal. I personally don't need to snack. I just walk outside on these frequent breaks)

you could have heard a pin drop.

then the conference leader THEN said people food shame others. (meaning me)

Most ppl at this conf are actively avoiding me. I even have gotten stink eye 😳 (s).

The wellness industry is interesting. They even passed out a green juice with sugar, it has a Hindu name so ppl treated it like Mana from the Gods. another group was happily sharing "protein" organic cookies with frosting.

One more day. ONe more day thankfully, because i made myself a pariah 🤣

Have you even been at any wellness event where SF rcvd bad vibes??

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Thanks for the positive feedback! I needed support today.