It’s funny for you to ask, because in reading your approach, my judgements were more on myself, than what you said. I contemplated if the way I’ve been managing my diet has been too mechanical — in all honesty it feels a bit that way. I concluded that my approach is good, focussing on my health — one time I followed my intuition, I ate fish and chips, then reacted. I could hardly walk the next day. (Wondering if it was a coincidence, I had the exact same meal from the same store a week later, and had the same response).

I guess there are many caveats and no real absolutes. Within my narrow range of foods, my approach is highly intuitive, but it has a feeling of sameness to it, which gets boring. I haven’t followed a recipe in a long time, how I cook is intuitive.

I’ve made guesses along the way. What food to try, what to eliminate, there is a part where I need to listen to my body, to engage with intuition at various levels.

Bottom line: if I ate what I crave (I have a big sweet tooth) then I wouldn’t have reversed my supposedly chronic condition.

I’m a big fan of testing to see if I have a deficiency, rather than relying on intuition. For example, I tested my Vitamin D level yesterday. I test my C-Reactive Protein level fortnightly.

It’s all a learning experience to me. For me, nothing is taken for granted, I sense that there is something to learn here.