Don't Go Hungry For Life by Amanda Sainsbury-Salis

Author:Amanda Sainsbury-Salis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

From: Brooke

Sent: Saturday 26th January 7:43 PM

To: Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis

Subject: Still discovering amazing things!

Dear Amanda,

Thank you for your last email. You gave me some things to think about. I am astonished that, at 51 years of age and spending 30 years watching my health, following various diets and thinking I knew a reasonable amount about it all, I am learning SO MUCH from you.

Thanks to you, I now give myself permission to be hungry and eat ‘guilt free’. Here is an example from the last week. On Tuesday, I woke up starving. I took the dog for a 40-minute morning walk and felt quite listless. I ate a ‘larger-than-usual’ breakfast (a good-sized serving of porridge, milk, 2 pieces of toast and peanut butter and 2 cups of coffee). Normally this would cause me to think that I’d blown my diet and then I would eat ‘whatever’ for the rest of the day. But on Tuesday I allowed myself to be hungry and to eat. By 11.15 am I was hungry again and had a small tin of baked beans and a yogurt. At 1 pm I was hungry again and had a sandwich, a salad and a breakfast bar. At 4.30 pm I ate three small hot cross buns and an apple and at 7 pm I ate chicken and veggies for tea. I felt nicely full, but not upset with myself. I didn’t binge eat, I didn’t blow it, I simply ate because I was hungry. I knew when to stop eating AND I didn’t fret about having a so-called ‘bad’ day. In the past, this would be the start of a number of days of ‘bad eating’ as I would be completely convinced that I was hopeless.

However, on Wednesday, I didn’t feel hungry and easily ate much less. Today also, I have eaten very little simply because I haven’t been at all hungry. This has taken no willpower at all and in fact I don’t even feel like eating anything much at all.

I am just amazed at how your approach and its impact on my psychology make all the difference to the way I think about what I am doing. I have finally realised that I do have some hungry days and some not-so-hungry days and it doesn’t mean that I am in any way a failure. In fact, eating more on some days and less on others makes me feel like I am succeeding beautifully.

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