Principle 1 - Reject the Diet Mentality

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Hi All,

Once a week we can start a thread of messages focusing on one of the

ten principles outlined in the book Intuitive Eating. Please post

and let us know what you think about this week's topic. Perhaps you

could quote a small section that meant something special to you. If

you haven't read the book for a while, you might want to re-read this

section. Something new might jump out at you that you would like to

share about. If you don't have the book that's okay too, just post on

the topic or other peoples comments about the topic.

On Tuesday this week it became obvious to me how engrained the diet

mentality is in my thinking. I went to the grocery store to pick up

some stuff that was sounding very good to me. I ended up buying way

too much of it. I would do that on diets because I would eat the same

thing day after day whether I was sick of it or not. I must remember

I don't need to do that anymore.

One of the things that jumped out at me in reading this section of

the book was when they talked about willpower. " Willpower does not

belong in Intuitive eating. " That statement seems so refreshing to

me. Intuitive Eating isn't about forcing myself to do anything. I'm

tired of the struggle. I'm tired of having to be ever vigilant. I'm

just going to take a leap of faith and go with this idea of Intuitive

Eating.

If I were a scientist doing an experiment to find out if diets work

for me, I would have proven ten times over that diets do not work for

me. It is time for me to stop this madness, and now that I have IE, I

have a method by which to revert my thinking to something saner.

Arnie