Principle 2 - Honor Your Hunger

August 21, 2008

Hi All,

This message is continuing with our weekly theme of starting a thread

of messages focusing on one of the ten principles outlined in the

book Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Resch. 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.

If you are new to the group and would like to read and post about

last week's theme, that's okay too. Principle 1 - " Rejecting the Diet

mentality " started with Message number 16826. You can go directly to

that message and then scroll down to the bottom of the page to see

many of the posts in that thread.

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I love principle 2, " Honor Your Hunger. " Having spent so many years

either starving or gorging it's a relief to just eat when I'm hungry

and not have to worry about if it's time to eat, or how many calories

I've already consumed today, or get depressed because I'm starving

and can't eat.

I thought the section in the book on " Hunger Silence " was interesting

because I did that a lot, using diet sodas and caffeine to try and

turn off the hunger, or skipping breakfast.

For my first few days of IE I had a hard time figuring out if I was

hungry or not. But now, only two or three weeks later, most of the

time now I know when I'm hungry. Although sometimes I still overeat

when I'm hungry for reasons other than a biological hunger. Sometimes

I just eat recreationally. Like last night when I was at the fair,

stuff just looked so good. I gave myself permission to eat past the

point of not being hungry any more. I knew I wasn't really hungry,

but I didn't want to walk away feeling deprived. But at least today

I'm aware of what I'm doing.

I'm enjoying eating when I'm hungry. At first I would always look at

the clock to see if it was " time to eat " or not. Lately those

thoughts aren't even coming to mind. It's so freeing and really

reduces my anxiety level around food to just know that the next time

I'm hungry I can eat.

Arnie

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