> 2. How do you know I don't have experience with instinctive eating?
> I've been on and off the raw-food trip since 1979.

have you tried to present yourself to a wide choice of foods in their
natural state and chosen by smell for an extended period ?
from your comments it is obvious you din't .
the fact that food is raw is not sufficient to practice anapsology .it is
about allowing  the non cognitive brain to choose what foods are needed. Raw
undenatured is the necessarry condition for taping most clearly  into our
genetic memory and recognition of foods .

> For me good food tastes good no matter how much I eat of it. Even
unseasoned
> raw food. Any kind of food. That's my experience.  A time or two in my
life
> I experienced what might be called a "taste change" because I was too sick
> to eat.

because it is very difficult to experience the best of the flavor by an
organism allready overwhelmed by too complexes informations resulting from
any mixing and sesonning and non respect of instinctive responses to
metabolic  needs .
Only after experinencing the luminous phase of a food can you experience the
taste change , if it is just good it will stay good especially if the foods
is more selected thru breeding toward its "goodness."( most striking ex to
me are table american grapes compared to wine grapes from France )
the same qualities in a food  taste that give a wonderfull experience will
be responsible for displeasure when eaten beyond the needs.
modern foods are allways good and also never truelly  wonderfull.

cooking agravate further the possibility of a taste change.
>
>
> 3. I read about the experience of some people who eat original food until
> taste change.  The quantities of food they eat gross me out.

if you are refering to peoples in the beginning of the anapsology practice ,
the reason is that they enter the game in a state of intence metabolic
deficiencies and needs , once rebalanced the quntities ingested become"
normal" .
 that is why it is important to have an experience before formulating
opinions
when i first started  i accumulated pounds of filbert shells on my plate now
i eat  in a row may be 4 or 5  individuals filberts at the max .
Now that i went even farther in rebalancing my deficiencies thru eating lot
of animals meats , the daily quantity of foods  i eat are at the lowest
ever been .

If I must eat
> that much in order to experience taste change, then I will not experience
> taste change.  I refuse to eat that much.

peoples who ate those huge quantities ( that you heard about )never
experienced digestive troubles , so who  decide what is too much ?

<I'm not saying anopsology is totally wrong.>

 I think the idea deserve in the contrary further investigations instead of
the dismissing without verification it generally encounter .
if you ever try openly  and fully the rules of instinctive eating and don't
experience luminous phases and  taste changes , i pay you a beer to
consolate you from the deprivation .:-)
jean-claude