Principle 5 - Feel Your Fullness

September 10, 2008

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.

Principle 4 – " Challenge the Food Police " started with message #

17462.

This chapter has so many examples that I can relate to of how dieting

tears us away from our own self knowledge and our own instinctive and

innate abilities to know what is right for ourselves. But thankfully

I found the focus is on the solution. I like the way the authors

stress how none of these principles are a solution in themselves that

they all depend on the other principles to be effective.

I had a couple days this week when I was really very hungry. I ate a

lot for breakfast on Friday and the day just kept going that way.

Saturday was pretty much the same thing. I was wondering if I was

eating for reasons other than body hunger, but I just kept coming

back to, " I'm hungry " . So I ate quite a bit, but on Sunday it just

went away. I'm glad I didn't panic about it and try to control it.

I think this quote speaks to this situation. " Clearly, there are many

factors that influence how full you feel from eating. With so many

variables that exert influence on your eating, it can and should be

no surprise, then, that the amount of food you desire to eat can and

will fluctuate. A big key is to stay tuned in and to eat

consciously. "

Arnie

IEing since Aug. 08

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