Principle 4 - Challenge the Food Police

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Hi All,

This message is continuing with our weekly theme of 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 a

previous week's theme, that's okay too. 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.

Principle 1 - " Rejecting the Diet mentality " started with message #

16826.

Principle 2 – " Honor Your Hunger " started with message # 17023.

Principle 3 – " Make Peace with Food " started with message # 17267.

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This chapter sure has a lot to make one think about how one thinks. I

noticed in re-reading this chapter that the authors gave this

Principle far more real-estate in the book than any other Principle.

I sure could relate to the negative/destructive dieting voices they

spoke of. The happy thing is that this second time reading the book I

could also relate to the ally voices as well. I still need to work on

developing those ally voices, but it is getting better.

We had a wonderful long weekend visiting a friend and his family at

their cottage. He used to be a chef and is an outrageously good cook

and they no inhibitions about what they eat. He made a desert that

was a wonderful " sticky toffee pudding " . I really had a great

weekend. Fortunately I didn't start worrying about what I was eating

until I got home and started to think I should make up for it. I'm

glad I read this chapter today; it helped me to put things in their

proper perspective.

We spent one day at the beach and they have an 11 year old boy who

was having the greatest time in the water and building sand

structures. At one point one of them noticed he hadn't had lunch and

the other parent just remarked, " He'll let us know when he's hungry. "

I realized from spending time with them that I still have an

irrational fear of being hungry later in the day instead of just

enjoying the moment.

Arnie