Another newbie

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Hi All!

I've been lurking for a week or so now and wanted to introduce

myself and start posting.

I'm making my way through the IE book and it is really

enlightening. I am being concious now about eating what I want -

basically " giving myself permission " to eat what I want vs what I

should.

I've always been up and down and after my son was born, I focused

and lost a lot of weight. I did it through e-diets and exercise.

Unfortunately, I am very prone to binging and in the past year it

has been a real challenge. I think the main reason is that my

husband has started traveling every Sunday night through Thursday.

I work full time and have two kids - 6 1/2 and almost 5. By the

time they go to bed at night, it is about 8:45 and I'm just sitting

down to relax in front of the tv. What I've found is that I am

staying up way too late and eating. I took up knitting about 10

months ago which does help me keep busy but the binging still

happens.

Also, I have really limited my exercise claiming I haven't had time

since my husband is traveling.

I've kind of reached a breaking point and read about IE.

As I begin, I've realized that my style of eating is definitly to

clean my plate and also to go crazy on the " forbidden " foods. I've

started in the past week or so to eat what I've wanted to try and

deal with the first principle in the book first. One key challenge

though is that I've always had the habit of eating each thing in

full before going on to the next thing. I try and " be good " by

eating the protien or " main " item first before I go to the sides.

What I'm realizing, though, is that I'm not able to check if I'm

full without worrying I won't get to the side - which is what I

usually prefer.

I notice my husband, who is a natural IE eater, always starts with

his sides.

Does anyone else have experience with this type of challenge?