In trying to understand how Naturally Thin people eat, I believe they can’t eat perfect food 100% of the time.  I know I don’t.  And since I don’t, I probably won’t reach my Naturally Thin weight in record time.  What I’m hoping is that I do get there, in spite of not eating perfectly.  For instance, I may choose roast beef and swiss in a sandwich over something lower in fat.  I feel I’m basing this choice on the hunger signals given by my body.  I simply don’t want low fat turkey with no cheese in my sandwich. I often think I should be choosing foods more perfect than what I do choose.  I don’t have a problem with sweets and junk food.  And most of my food comes from the outer rim of the grocery store, where they say the “healthiest” foods are stocked.  But I favor 2% milk over skim.  And we have cooked out hamburgers on the grill three times this summer.  I would have never eaten hamburgers in my Food Jail days, but now that I’ve broken out I sometimes feel maybe I am bending the Naturally Thin eating principles a little too far with eating non-perfect food.  I tell myself that Naturally Thin people eat hamburgers now and again, but do they really?  Am I fooling myself?  If there is nothing else I want but a hamburger (or say, another not-quite-perfect food, like a borderline food), should I indulge, or try to talk myself out of it?  I have been indulging and am wondering if all of you draw the line at some point.  I don’t keep a record of what I eat anymore, so it’s a pain for me to figure out if I’ve already had my “quota” of borderline foods for the week.  Should I make it a point to ban borderlines totally?  And I love to make black bean quesadillas on the griddle, only I need to dip them in sour cream.  So at times I feel that things like the sour cream could be “doing me in.”

Swan