Hey Iguana,
Hope you are well.
Yes I’m fine, thanks!
On a recent post you said "Once you’ve excluded all artificial stuff, cereals, dairy, cooked, processed, mixed and seasoned food, about everything you like can be tasted. If it smells good to you (and ideally triggers salivation), then why not carefully taste it (in case of doubtful stuff, keep it in the mouth 6 to 10 seconds to allow enough time to spit it if a bad taste appears) and eat as much as you want as long is it still tastes good and no bad feeling appears, just like an animal would do?"
Do you know this approach works even when eating something like berries, grapes, or melon. You know, foods that are quite light and sweet, and you would imagine it would be easy to over-eat. Is the instincto 'stop' clear?
Thanks,
Phil
Yes, it works with berries, grapes and melon. It’s just that the amount we can eat without problems is sometimes amazing.
Grapes stops you when you cannot eat their skin anymore. You might still go on by spitting the skin and eating the flesh, but then by doing so you may eat too much of it. My parents ate so much refined and cooked carbs that the couldn’t even eat a single whole grape anymore: they had to spit the skin even from the first grape they ate!
I never had any taste stop with melons: I stop when I feel satisfied and it can be after 3 medium size cantaloupe or galia. Never had any problem digesting it, but then I don’t feel like eating anything else which might make the digestion problematic.
fruit and its water content take up volume so you sense some fullness at some point. but the best guide is if you have indigestion symptoms afterward then you know not to eat so much next time 
Yes, you better stop at the first sign of fullness, especially with modern cultivated and heavily selected fruits. I never had any indigestion with fruits, but of course, fruits should not be eaten shortly after or just before animal proteins or other classes of food.
I don’t think the indigestion symptom would be a reliable indicator, for as I said I never had any with fruits. You would get indigestion with bad associations or if you eat too many different species of fruits in the same meal or “cross eat” a fruit with a different one or other food. (By “cross eat” I mean eating something, for example honey till instinctive stop, then eating almonds till instinctive stop, then eating honey again – which would allow you to eat more almonds and so on.)
Also, the amount eaten of a specific food can vary wildly form one day to the other according to our current needs, metabolic state and current digestive capacity. So it is useless to base the amount we should actually eat on the memory of the amount eaten last time.
I like overeating watermelon when it starts feeling sweet I drink glass of cold water and continue eating it like crazy!!
I like to do it in the morning and it makes me soo full and relaxed untill evening then I have to eliminate the watermelon its very cleansing in my opinion!
I wouldn’t eat watermelon, drink water and eat some watermelon again! In general, it’s much better for digestion to drink before the meal, neither in the middle of a meal nor just after.
Cheers
Francois
