> I >am experimenting with the following food plan, which I consider eating
> >instinctively.

> >several fruits or vegetables--fat--protein (or fatty protein)--sugar.

> Interesting. Protein in between two sweet courses. _I_ don't do well at all
> with fruit _after_ protein, whereas Melisa often has fruit before protein
> and often has a bit of sweet fruit a half hour or so after a meal--so
> that's kinda what you are doing. Whatever works!

I had trouble when I ate juicy fruit after a meal. I think the difference
 is that I only eat honey or dried fruit after meals, and not a lot of
fluid.

> >The most important thing I'm looking at is whether I have natural
> >hunger--that tingly feeling in the back of the mouth and usually I

> >Do any of you find you are guided by this natural hunger for when and how
> >much to eat?

> Salivating is easy, but I don't notice any tingling. I do know that if I
> eat too early in the day (before 10 or 11am if I'm up at, say, 6am), even
> fruit will seem heavy and sluggish.

The tingly feeling usually comes first for me, and then when I think of a specific food I may
salivate. I can think of an orange and salivate,
but ice cream doesn't do it. It never did. It was all cerebral. What I
don't understand yet, is that it's 5 AM now and I am salivating very
slightly when I think of an orange, but my belly is still full and I
think it's too soon to eat. Maybe it's a matter of degree. I'm only
slighlty salivating.

My best, Ellie