Principle 3 - Make Peace with Food

August 27, 2008

Hi All,

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Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Resch. Please post and let us know

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

16826.

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

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When I first started reading this chapter I was filled with both

delight and panic. Delight at the thought of eating whatever I wanted

and panic at the thought of not being able to stop. I am so glad that

the authors talk about the fears people have had about doing this.

I'm glad they acknowledged how difficult it is for people and didn't

try to make it sound easy.

I have these strong fears around eating sugary type things. I love

them and have had little self-control when I start eating them. I

think that 7-11 store's Slurpee is my favourite food (I use the

term " food " loosely here). For those of you that live in countries

that don't have Slurpees, it is basically two cups of sugar in

flavoured water. I will drink that stuff till I feel nauseous and

don't ask me to explain it because I can't, but there is something

about that nauseous feeling that I like.

No diet I have ever been on has allowed sugar and now I'm faced with

making peace with sugar and getting past feeling guilty about eating

it and learning to trust myself with it. This is a tall order.

I like that at the end of the chapter they gave a practical method of

doing this. I think I will start with some of the things that are

going to be easiest to make peace with and then work my way up to the

more difficult things.

Arnie

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