Re: Honor Your Hunger - Principle 2 - learning to recognize hunger

[Guest guest]

It was really great that you were willing to test your " hypothesis "

despite your fears. Your experience shows how we all go through our

process in our own time and that 2 years into the process, you

continue to learn, grow, and honor yourself

>

> Hi, I just wanted to post on Principle #2 as it is one I believe I am

> coming up against big time lately. I think I've been misinterpreting

> my hunger signals for the past 1 to 2 years! I have experienced

> gnawing stomache aches in my upper abdomen for a WHILE now (as in on

> and off for 1 to 2 years) and I now think it MAY be because I'm not

> eating enough! I am recovering from undereating and overexercising,

> and have been working hard since October 2006 to help myself overcome

> these things. I have gained about 15 pounds and am now at a " healthy

> weight " for my height (yay!) but am still quite small. Whenever I

> experienced a gnawing pain in my upper abdomen I thought " it couldn't

> be due to a lack of food because I'm eating MORE AND exercising LESS

> compared to a few years ago. " Well...a couple of weeks ago I

> experienced another big stomach/abdomen pain in the early evening and

> instead of just going on my 30 minute run as I'd plaaned and hoping

> it would go away, I decided " Well, I've exhausted other hypotheses as

> to why I feel this way, so maybe I really do just need to EAT

> something. " So I ate a lot of peanut butter and crackers...and low

> and behold, about 10 minutes later, my stomach felt better. I

> went on my run and felt GREAT! (I was really scared to eat more

> [fears fears fears] but I tried to be brave, and I think I ended up

> helping myself!!)

> For the past 3 weeks I've tracked what I ate (food, time, calorie

> content) which is something I'd never done before; and I did it with

> the intention of seeing whether or not I'm getting enough calories.

> Well, judging by the results, I'm not getting enough food/calories

> for my age/height/activity level.

> For the past few days, I've been trying to eat bigger breakfasts,

> heartier lunches, and a good dinner, too. I'm going to make sure I

> get more calories each day and see if my stomach problems disappear.

> ***I think I'd programmed myself to IGNORE my hunger signals. I

> think that my mind has, in a way, refused to consider consuming more

> food/calories/FUEL as a solution to my physical pain because that

> threatens to make my body larger (something I had/have feared for

> years now). BUT, I think I'm ready to tackle it and do it! If more

> food (FUEL, really) is what my body has been yelling for, then I'm

> going to have to give it to it! :-)

>

> I 'm not positive I have found my solution, but if this is indeed my

> solution, I'd have to say that it's taken my almost 2 years to master

> Principle 2 of IE: HONOR YOUR HUNGER.

>

> Thanks for taking the time to read about my fears, struggles,

> triumphs, confusion, etc. It feels really good to be heard.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you, Latoya! I'm pretty sure my stomach problems are due to the

fact that I need to eat more, and in the past when I read passages in

books or online about learning to recognize your hunger signals I would

sort of shake my head in disbelief thinking, " How hard is it really??

I've got that part down. " But, it turns out, maybe I don't quite yet

And this is definitely a process..a culmination of little steps that

lead you to your " victory " , so to speak.

>

> It was really great that you were willing to test your " hypothesis "

> despite your fears. Your experience shows how we all go through our

> process in our own time and that 2 years into the process, you

> continue to learn, grow, and honor yourself

>

[Guest guest]

I am very happy to hear that you have amended your thinking and taking

a new go at re-discovering your hunger signals. I hope that others

reading your post will see that IE is a learning process and we always

can discover new things and work on them when we are ready. I'm sure

some will think - OMG! does it take over a year to find this out?!?

No, that's not the point, you have been working well on those areas

you could handle and now re-tuning back into hunger signals has led

you to this next step for you.

EXCELLENT work and bravo too!

Katcha

IEing since March 2007

>

> Hi, I just wanted to post on Principle #2 as it is one I believe I am

> coming up against big time lately. I think I've been misinterpreting

> my hunger signals for the past 1 to 2 years! I have experienced

> gnawing stomache aches in my upper abdomen for a WHILE now (as in on

> and off for 1 to 2 years) and I now think it MAY be because I'm not

> eating enough! I am recovering from undereating and overexercising,

> and have been working hard since October 2006 to help myself overcome

> these things. I have gained about 15 pounds and am now at a " healthy

> weight " for my height (yay!) but am still quite small. Whenever I

> experienced a gnawing pain in my upper abdomen I thought " it couldn't

> be due to a lack of food because I'm eating MORE AND exercising LESS

> compared to a few years ago. " Well...a couple of weeks ago I

> experienced another big stomach/abdomen pain in the early evening and

> instead of just going on my 30 minute run as I'd plaaned and hoping

> it would go away, I decided " Well, I've exhausted other hypotheses as

> to why I feel this way, so maybe I really do just need to EAT

> something. " So I ate a lot of peanut butter and crackers...and low

> and behold, about 10 minutes later, my stomach felt better. I

> went on my run and felt GREAT! (I was really scared to eat more

> [fears fears fears] but I tried to be brave, and I think I ended up

> helping myself!!)

> For the past 3 weeks I've tracked what I ate (food, time, calorie

> content) which is something I'd never done before; and I did it with

> the intention of seeing whether or not I'm getting enough calories.

> Well, judging by the results, I'm not getting enough food/calories

> for my age/height/activity level.

> For the past few days, I've been trying to eat bigger breakfasts,

> heartier lunches, and a good dinner, too. I'm going to make sure I

> get more calories each day and see if my stomach problems disappear.

> ***I think I'd programmed myself to IGNORE my hunger signals. I

> think that my mind has, in a way, refused to consider consuming more

> food/calories/FUEL as a solution to my physical pain because that

> threatens to make my body larger (something I had/have feared for

> years now). BUT, I think I'm ready to tackle it and do it! If more

> food (FUEL, really) is what my body has been yelling for, then I'm

> going to have to give it to it! :-)

>

> I 'm not positive I have found my solution, but if this is indeed my

> solution, I'd have to say that it's taken my almost 2 years to master

> Principle 2 of IE: HONOR YOUR HUNGER.

>

> Thanks for taking the time to read about my fears, struggles,

> triumphs, confusion, etc. It feels really good to be heard.

>

>