I like Intuitive eating

[Guest guest]

What it really comes down to for me at this point is that I have

really come to enjoy Intuitive Eating. I'd like to relay what my last

couple weeks have been like. I hope this doesn't get too long.

A couple weeks ago I had to go out of town for a conference. It just

happened that the conference was in the city that my sister lives in.

So I took a few extra days before the conference to visit her. My

sister is ten years older than me and as far back as I can remember

she has been dieting.

But those few days were a little difficult for me since there is

nothing but diet food in her house. I did hit a grocery store and

pick up a few things I like, but all the same, family dynamics that

always play out and the shortage of enjoyable food took its toll.

Then I went and stayed at the hotel that the conference was at for a

few days. The conference was exhausting. It would start at 8:00am and

be over most days at 10:00pm. The hotel was in a remote area and the

only restaurants I could find near the hotel were a Mac's and a

Subway. I've never liked hotel food. I think all hotels get their

food from the same central hotel kitchen that just pumps out bland

crap. (I really hope there are no hotel chefs here, or maybe I just

stay at bad hotels.)

I guess the point of that whole story is that by the time I got home,

I was totally off my IE game. A more experienced IEer probably could

have handled that week better, but it took me days to get back to

being able to sense anything in an intuitive way. I'm just happy to

have survived to play another day. But the surprising thing was how

much I missed Intuitive Eating. I really wanted to get back to it. I

didn't realize how much I love IE. It feels so good to be able to

enjoy food as much as I have learnt to in the past couple months by

eating intuitively. So a big thanks to everyone here, because

everyone who has posted here has helped me in some way.

Arnie

IEing since Aug. 08