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Hanging a kettle bell from it hahahaha
I can’t wait to hear more from Danny Roddy! What a tease keeping his client’s story for next time.
I really really want you to get the weight loss results and see more in your followers. What a brilliant plan for life well enjoyed!! And it would free lots of people out of the grips of the billion dollar diet industry.
Matt I respect you saying that you don’t have all the answers and that you haven’t had all the results you expected. I might ask uncomfortable questions because that’s what I do but I don’t expect perfection, just honesty. Thanks for that!I commend you on being free of wanting to live up to social norms. I’m not there. Sorry if I wrongly assumed you were like me. I think that Matt sees more of an increase in temperature when sugar is high. I’m still learning what raises my metabolism more. And then there is the stress element which suppresses temp., also. It definitely adds an additional challenge to intuitive eating which might not fix the metab. by itself. Matt told me to try lying down and relaxing when my feet are cold and I have no appetite. He said that might work to warm them up. I don’t think that works for me because I still have stressful thoughts when lying down /: So I’m trying to figure out ways to chill out more about the difficulties of life and live with them. Piranha, keep us updated on how eat for heat works for you.
Linda, I get what you are saying about trying to accept yourself and not really buying it lol. What works for me is to say sth like I accept that I don’t accept and love everything about myself. Because only the truth works.
I really like this book that Real Amy recommended on another thread. Hope and help for your nerves by Claire Weekes.I think, that addressing stress is the first thing in order in combination with solid whole food meals and drinking less, before trying to eat huge quantities of food. Because if you are still a very anxious person, the food you eat, is likely going to turn into fat and it’s an upstream battle. This might not be true for someone with an eating disorder or who severely restricted carbs..They might really need to stuff themselves. But then I’m also still trying to figure it out. But I know that I have a lot of fearful thoughts that cause me to feel slight pressure a lot of the time. That affects hormones?But eating up and adding maple syrup to my breakfast and having a couple of scoops of full fat ice cream after a lunch of sweet potato, fish and coconut oil, salt with everything etc seems to be a big step in recovering the adrenals. I’ve come a long way and used to also take supplements for adrenal. Urgh, how I hated spending the money and seeing no results. I’m much calmer now and have had my period back this whole last year. But when I really eat all the way eat for heat like I did the last 2 months I gain lots of weight. And I think that i need to address the stress attitude before doing that.I would never discriminate against anyone of any color or size but I honestly have a certain goal for myself. And you wouldn’t have done all those diets if you didn’t want that, too. And you also hope, in the back of your mind, that the weight will come off within 2-3 years. I wish nothing more than that! The diet industry officially SUCKS! I don’t even want to be skinny but a healthy size medium which feels comfortable on my frame and which is what I can maintain if I don’t eat huge amounts. So please don’t blame me if I ask around who got what I’m looking for and raised their metabolism, also. I might be asking for the impossible but isn’t this diet all on it’s own what is considered doing “the impossible”?
Piranha, how long have you been doing EFH and what results have you seen?And Thomas, I also have memories of detox supposed to last ?long and that’s why it’s a red flag when Matt sais it’ll take one year. Esp. when I’m already at my ideal weight and he’s saying, that, in order to achieve my goal, I need to get fat and then get thin again? UMM not sure
I’m most attracted to instinctive eating whenever hungry. But for now I want to fix my metabolism, thyroid, adrenals, hormones. I feel very close to target and don’t want to go on some tangent and lose what I’ve already worked hard to achieve. Thomas, what you say resonates with me. I feel that extreme dieters might come here and take the HED as a permission to pig out and be a “rebellious teenager”. Then they run back to their diet because it didn’t “work out”. Maybe there is a benefit to it but I think it holds great risk in the long run! Maybe Matt is an extreme personality. After all he did everything from fasting on only milk and other extreme diets. I don’t really want to follow anyone there but I’m totally over eating veggies with grains or fish all day and drinking veggie juice too gross lol. What if eating giant quantities of food gives a person hyperthyroid and that’s why you might become skinny while pigging out on burgers? And in the end your thyroid gives out and you get fat anyway.I honestly don’t know anyone that eats giant quantities of food and is slim except for professional athletes or dancers. But I see plenty of people eat what they want in normal amounts and look small and beautiful. All I know is that I stopped dieting a couple of years back and started eating 3squares with maybe 2 snacks, incl. carbs, fruit, honey, protein etc and I got my period back and have had one every month this last year. I still get cold hands and have a few problems like allergies to some foods, digestion etc which I want to get over. THat’s why I’m here.
Amy, you are probably right /: I’m not feeling super sure on what I’m doing right now. Eating more sugar and so on has given me results despite my common sense screaming no. I’m trying to see what has worked for others so I can maybe skip some testing of wrong combinations and avoid unnecessary weight gain which has been mentioned on this forum. Why shouldn’t the ones before us help avoid mistakes. We aren’t that different as humans. But overall I do believe in listening to my own body. But if I was, I would probably have eaten 5 oranges for lunchI mean why would we need Matt or anyone as a guide for what to eat for that matter. Because we are still searching for what works. I agree that this is a long term process. But I am forever hopeful that suffering is unnecessary(;
I think this forum is here to exchange what has and hasn’t worked. I will continue to find those that have succeeded and listen to what they did. That’s common sense to me. In combination with my own instinct I might get where I want to go.I have faired well with this attitude and will continue to do so.I know, it would look mighty dark here without some trail blazers. And Matt doesn’t seem to have time for our questions.
Amy, you just helped me get clear! Thank you so much!! My intuition tells me to stick to a routine of square meals and whole foods. Mostly sweet potato, oats, quinoa, rice with some protein, fat and a little bit of veg. Add some salt and a small dessert once a day. voila. I know I can feel great that way. I don’t under eat or have an eating disorder nor have I done low carb recently. i think dairy and esp. bread needs to be in moderation for me. It puts on weight like crazy. I guess, I have some figuring out of my own to do and see what proportions work best. I really went for it in the last 1.5 months and maybe got too intent on getting my temp. up FAST. So I ate over my hunger feeling gross and tired at times. That seems pointless. Why not feel mostly good and trust one’s body’s cues!! Matt seems to say, eat as much as your appetite allows and make the food tasty as in tarts and processed without pufas. When you think of food, eat it. And then it’s normal to be dead tired all day. I must say that, that can go wrong and cause lethargy and no interest in life. It’s ok to slow down and not exercise as much but why be half deadI don’t know. He sure is onto something and I’m grateful for what he does. Amy, are your temperatures up now and what foods work best for you? I think I read somewhere that you prefer carbs and salt over fatty foods.
Also my mom is 78, in great health, eats lots of very healthy foods, is very slim and still has cold hands and feet often. Is she doing that horrible?
And my sister always ate lots of junk like pizza and also salads, yogurt, drank lots of water etc and is and has always been super warm. But now she has an anxiety disorder. Maybe from drinking lots of wine? But she’s never had a problem with body heat, even when very skinny.
It’s really hard to weed through the info.I have a history of buying into great ideas and now I ask more questions and am more cautious.
Aimee, I couldn’t use the link. The page is unavailable. And I searched on FB-no luck.
