***IE Daily Thread 10-11-08***

[Guest guest]

Good morning all! Here we are with our first Intuitive Eating Daily Thread. I

just ordered the

book and should get it by early next week. Can't wait to get into it. All of

you who have been

working it, start us all off with your experience and how this way of thinking

has improved

your attitude toward food.

It is a beautiful day here in North Texas, and I am off to Six Flags with my 2

girls, and my 16

year old's boy friend! Lots of fun!

Have fun everyone, and I'll check in later!

KJ

[Guest guest]

Hi KJ and everyone!

 

I hope your day was fun-filled!  I am also interested in IE and will have a book

in a couple of days.  But I have to admit, it's scary for me.  It will be a lot

of hard work for me to undo the years of mental and emotional conditioning that

got me to this point in the first place.  I picked up the book at a book store

yesterday and read the intro and forward and a couple of the pages in the first

chapter and I swear it was talking about me and I found that I have all the

characteristics they discuss.  I don't want to get bigger, I want to get smaller

and don't know if it is scary because I am afraid of how I will be interacting

with food without restrictions -- I know, I know, that is one of the points but

it still is a bit scary to me.  I have a lot of work to do.

 

Heidi

***IE Daily Thread 10-11-08***

Good morning all! Here we are with our first Intuitive Eating Daily Thread. I

just ordered the

book and should get it by early next week. Can't wait to get into it. All of you

who have been

working it, start us all off with your experience and how this way of thinking

has improved

your attitude toward food.

It is a beautiful day here in North Texas, and I am off to Six Flags with my 2

girls, and my 16

year old's boy friend! Lots of fun!

Have fun everyone, and I'll check in later!

KJ

[Guest guest]

I have been doing intuitive eating for a little over a month and I

have found IOWL has helped me get through the scary part which is the

legalizing food part. I did not go too crazy, just a little and each

time I did, my body immediately started self correcting.

one examples is Last weekend we went to a buffet for lunch. And

I " chose " to eat lots of items I don't usually keep at home and

enjoyed them throughly and was very full when we left. The cool part

was my body immediatiely started self correcting, hence I was not

hungry again until the next morning. I thought about a redo but there

was nothing to redo...because my intent is to be able to control my

binges...LOL...I don't mind binging I just want to be in control of

them. When i did feel hungry again the next morning it was for cotage

cheese and fruit. LOL Lunch was light too and it was not me punishing

myself for overeating it was what my body wanted.

If you want to check out the Intuitive eating book here is a link to

a few chapters.

http://books.google.com/books?id=V9673REaRNgC & printsec=frontcover

>

> Good morning all! Here we are with our first Intuitive Eating

Daily Thread. I just ordered the

> book and should get it by early next week. Can't wait to get into

it. All of you who have been

> working it, start us all off with your experience and how this way

of thinking has improved

> your attitude toward food.

>

> It is a beautiful day here in North Texas, and I am off to Six

Flags with my 2 girls, and my 16

> year old's boy friend! Lots of fun!

>

> Have fun everyone, and I'll check in later!

>

> KJ

>

[Guest guest]

Hi there,

Yes this whole intuitive eating thing is very scary, but I feel if I

can work through the scariness it will end up being very freeing and

that is a worthy goal.

Today I don't feel very well. Not really sick, but like I may be

coming down with something. I am tired and a bit queasy. So what do

start thinking about? I think maybe some ice cream will help or

something else sweet. It will calm my stomach. Probably what would

really help is resting, giving my stomach a rest by not eating and

sipping water or herbal tea.

Food usually comes up in my mind as the answer when often something

different is a much better answer.

So I am going to rest a bit now. Maybe later I will feel up to

rereading the IE book.

Glad this thread has been started.

Thanks

reeze

> Hi KJ and everyone!

>

> I hope your day was fun-filled! I am also interested in IE and

> will have a book in a couple of days. But I have to admit, it's

> scary for me. It will be a lot of hard work for me to undo the

> years of mental and emotional conditioning that got me to this

> point in the first place. I picked up the book at a book store

> yesterday and read the intro and forward and a couple of the pages

> in the first chapter and I swear it was talking about me and I

> found that I have all the characteristics they discuss. I don't

> want to get bigger, I want to get smaller and don't know if it is

> scary because I am afraid of how I will be interacting with food

> without restrictions -- I know, I know, that is one of the points

> but it still is a bit scary to me. I have a lot of work to do.

>

> Heidi

>

> ***IE Daily Thread 10-11-08***

>

> Good morning all! Here we are with our first Intuitive Eating Daily

> Thread. I just ordered the

> book and should get it by early next week. Can't wait to get into

> it. All of you who have been

> working it, start us all off with your experience and how this way

> of thinking has improved

> your attitude toward food.

>

> It is a beautiful day here in North Texas, and I am off to Six

> Flags with my 2 girls, and my 16

> year old's boy friend! Lots of fun!

>

> Have fun everyone, and I'll check in later!

>

> KJ

>

>

[Guest guest]

Had a really really really good Naturally slender/IE day. (With

Intuitive Eating all days are at least good, because with IE I'm not

allowed to beat up on myself because my " diet police " think I did

wrong.) The naturally slender part of me was front and center only

letting me eat when I was hungry and stopping when not too full and the

IE part of me had tons of fun choosing what to eat when we got hungry.

I most likely won't be eating again even if I get hungry because my

body does not like going to sleep with food in her.......but it's nice

to know I can eat again if I get hungry before bed and feel I need to.

It's some what frightening to see how little my body really needs when

I only eat when hungry and stop when medium full. Then on the other

hand think how low my food bill will be. LOL

[Guest guest]

It is really interesting and, yes, a little scary to realize how

little our bodies need to function. In the past I thought I was

always hungry, but it wasn't true hunger. It was other emotions that

I wanted to label as hunger. Now that I am practicing intuitive

eating and dealing with my other emotions as necessary, not much food

is needed. I decided to tally up my calories recently just on a

whim. I haven't been counting calories for the past month. It turns

out that I am taking in about 1700-2000 calories per day while

practicing intuive eating. That's actually perfect for me at 110

lbs, 5'4 " , and working out 6 days per week for an hour per session

(resistance and cardio). As a former binger and obsessive compulsive

person about food, the fact that I can let go, eat whatever I want,

but still maintain my weight effortlessly...wow. I can't even

describe the feeling...it's freeing, liberating, amazing...but,

again, no words can describe it accurately.

>

> Had a really really really good Naturally slender/IE day. (With

> Intuitive Eating all days are at least good, because with IE I'm

not

> allowed to beat up on myself because my " diet police " think I did

> wrong.) The naturally slender part of me was front and center only

> letting me eat when I was hungry and stopping when not too full and

the

> IE part of me had tons of fun choosing what to eat when we got

hungry.

> I most likely won't be eating again even if I get hungry because my

> body does not like going to sleep with food in her.......but it's

nice

> to know I can eat again if I get hungry before bed and feel I need

to.

>

> It's some what frightening to see how little my body really needs

when

> I only eat when hungry and stop when medium full. Then on the other

> hand think how low my food bill will be. LOL

>