Posted by bleauberry on May 4, 2010, at 18:19:57
In reply to Any solution for the Nardil hungry horrors?, posted by BlueM on May 4, 2010, at 17:40:18
The munchies should diminish over time. By then you will have gained too much weight and it will be hard to lose. Better to not let it happen at all?
To do that is not easy to start with, but actually gets easy with time. In a couple months your taste buds will actually change and prefer your new food choices over the things you previously ate a lot.
All non-root veggies. Organic as much as possible. Lots of them, especially when you have the munchies. If nothing else, they will cause you to eat less of the bad stuff. But try to avoid the bad stuff.
Lots of purified water. It can trick the stomach into feeling full if you drink a lot before eating.
Lean organic meats. You absolutely do not want pesicide, herbicide, hormone, and antibiotic residues if depression is an issue.
Avoid or greatly diminish all types of sugars including artificial ones. Stevia is the only good substitute.
Limit grains to white or brown rice. Pretend you are gluten intolerant. With depression being an issue you could be anyway and don't know it. Wheat products turn to fat. Oats, millet, rice, these are good. You'll find specialty pizzas and cereals made with these, intended for the gluten-free customers. Whole Foods Markets have wide choices.
No one ever said healing was easy. It just depends how badly you want it. Again, trust me, the taste buds do change. In a couple months you will actually crave and prefer your romaine leafs with organic turkey slices rolled up in them over your pizzas and donuts.
Setting aside the whole weight gain thing, the above eating choices are extremely friendly to healing of all kinds including mental. The right food choices by themselves are worth a couple points on the 1 - 10 depression scale.
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