Principle 8 - Respect Your Body

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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.

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

17462.

Principle 5 – " Respect Your Fullness " started with message # 17630.

Principle 6 – " Discover the Satisfaction Factor " started with message

# 17830

Principle 7 – " Cope with Your Emotions Without Using Food " started

with message # 18003

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Sometimes I think that if I could do this principle everything else

would just fall into place so much easier. Even though I've only

weighed myself once in the past two months I think I mentally weigh

myself every morning when I look in the mirror, when I do up my

pants, when I tighten my belt. So although putting away the scale is

an important symbolic gesture me, it doesn't mean I have changed my

thinking. It is how I think about myself, my body, my abilities and

my essence that is important.

This week I'm going to make a concerted effort to stop body-bashing.

When I think something negative, I'm going to try to substitute a

positive thought. I may even prepare some positive thoughts I can

use. It probably wouldn't hurt me to sit down and write out a few

good points about my body.

According to the chart in the book I just squeaked by into the

suggested weight for my height by like 2 lbs. ( That is, if I still

weigh the same as I did the last time I weighed myself.) But I have

a hard time accepting that because I would still like to lose some

fat from the abdomen area. But everyone in my family has the same

relative body shape as me, so I'm probably trying to battle nature.

I think I need to lose the idea that I should look any different than

I do right now. That is my new goal.

Arnie

IEing since Aug 08