Ashok Gupta explains why your body resists dietary changes: it's stuck in survival mode, treating new foods as threats. He recommends meditation and brain-retraining to calm your nervous system first, then making small diet shifts once your body feels safer.
For a lot of you, the reason that your system may be very stuck in eating certain foods is because when we are in this emergency state, the system doesn't want you to do anything new or different. Because the system feels like I'm in survival mode, these foods are working right now. I don't want to change foods or change diet or risk eating anything else that could take me away from this, at least the survival state that I'm in. And that survival state the brain has reached as you as the condition developed and often then created resistances or intolerances to so many different foods. So now if you suddenly try to change your diet completely, the system may not like that. So you strengthen your system through all your meditation and your brain retraining and all the other tools and techniques. Then as your body gets stronger, you can begin to make small step changes in your diet to come back to what you feel is healthy. But for those of you who are confused as to why am I allergic or why am I intolerant to so many of these foods which are generally known to be healthy, it's not that your body doesn't want you to have healthy foods, but it's got stuck in a place where it wants to stick to what it knows want to risk further challenges to survival. Which is why you also may find the certain supplements or medicines you have a reaction to.
