Thread: The Ld Diet....

Originally Posted by dreamship

You know, ya'll are really making this hard. If you want to stop eating junk food there are plenty of vegan substitutes, for those who can afford it, at the healthfood store. If the vegan thing is what you are worried over. IF it is just a matter of crave control or dieting, do what I do: just chew the product in question and spit it into a cup. What you crave is the oral sensation not the stuff in your guts. You'll also be grossed when you see the bulk of the stuff in the cup and you'll be glad it isn't in your guts. This reduces cravings also. Or watch one of those shows that show how this junk food is made. Nothing more gross than seeing all that sugar being processed.

You can always buy fresh ground peanut butter at the healthfood store. Doesn't taste as good as the sugary stuff from the store though.[/b]

You are talking about the way YOU diet.
What may seems easy for you isn't easy for everybody.
If that was the case humanity would have found the perfect diet allready.

Anyway this thread is about an idea for a LD application, which happen to be diet.
So even if your way of dieting was successful for everybody, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try this.

And finally thinking about it, I find easier to LD eating than to spit my food.
It's just opinions.

Originally Posted by dreamship

I'd like to write a Buddhist like note here: don't get all extreme. Walk the middle path.
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Now I'm embarrassed to say what I did last night...but oh well, here goes:

As I think I mentioned (probably like 1000X) I am trying deprivation-diet ILD. Last night I went to bed hungry and got lucid at the sight of piles of pastries, and I ate them and they were as good as IRL...

(dreamship...I try to be good IRL, it's just asking too much to be good in dreams too! I admire the sentiments tho.)

Dreamship, I'm going to guess that your post has nothing to do with anything I've said, because I have no clue what you're talking about "making it hard"....

For me, it's just a new idea that I'm toying with. I want to start changing my diet, but I'm far from wanting to stop eating steak. I just was thinking about how great it would be to "eat" all of the cookies and chocolate I want without the pounds.

Peanuts taste fairly similar to pecans, but not nearly as rich, and less sweet. But maybe your allergic to pecans, too?

I may sound silly, but this is actually one of my motivations. I am overweight, although I am stabilized now (stopped getting fatter, and actually lost 5kg from my heaviest). Most of the time I manage to control myself. I actually like eating good food, lots of vegetables.
But about every other day, I have a craving for sweet things, I feel like I physically need it, and I will jump on any Mars bar or similar. It makes me feel so bad after. I know very well 99% of the time that I shouldn't, but when I've these cravings I'm like possessed, I lose rational thinking and I don't feel well until I've eaten something with sugar. It's addictive.
I'm hoping that once I can be lucid regularly, I'll be able to satisfy these cravings in LD and eat no sweets IRL.

Originally Posted by Folqueraine

I may sound silly, but this is actually one of my motivations.[/b]

It doesn't sound silly at all. I seriously have sort of a binging disorder; I'll eat really healthy for a while then pig out on a whole bunch of junk food. Maybe you can do like I am, using this technique both to stay on a diet and to improve lucid dreaming. The next time you want to eat something that you shouldn't, resist, telling yourself "I'll eat that in my dream tonight!" And if you don't eat it IRL, maybe you will dream about it, and both get to eat it in the dream and get lucid too. It has helped me do better. The thought that restraining help me lucid dream is just that extra little motivations that helps a lot. I'm really encouraged now after that last one. Maybe the eater bunny will bring me a bunch of candy in a dream.