Re: To shame or not the shame?

[Guest guest]

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> I need to get to a point where I can eat what ever I eat and feel

> fine, even good like it's all part of my journey. To get to that

> place I'm going to start sharing what I eat sometimes. Today I

had...

>

A book I have been reading also says it's important to run the food

I eat through my mind until I can do it with out attaching feelings

to it. Here is my food for today.

2 eggs

..5 bag veggies

cheese

catsup

..5 cucumber

humus

can pumpkin 2 eggs, stevia milk

chicken leg

breast

plums with low fat sour k

two large low fat stevia glasses of cocoa so SWC can feel full

[Guest guest]

I've been writing down what I eat each day too. I think it's

helpful, and it's been helping me gain trust in myself (realizing I

WON'T eat a week's worth of food in one day if I don't plan it all

out beforhand). I do have a bad habit of adding up the calories at

the end of every night, but at least it's not all through out the

day. It does kind of make me feel bad sometimes though.

> >

> > I need to get to a point where I can eat what ever I eat and

feel

> > fine, even good like it's all part of my journey. To get to that

> > place I'm going to start sharing what I eat sometimes. Today I

had...

> >

> > breakfast

> > apple

> > peanut butter and light sourk

> >

> > lunch

> > half and subway sammy

> >

> > then about 2 Sweet wild child wanted to feel full because of

some

> > things that had happened (and of course I feel I should have

been

> > able to have handled without giving in to SWC,....but obviously

we're

> > not to that part of the journey yet)so......we ate.

> >

> > two bowls of hot cereal with raisins milk and butter

> >

> > The cool thing is it is now 5:30 and we still feeling very

full and

> > I think swc is alseep, so we have no desire to eat.

> >

> >

> > thanks for being there.

> >

>

[Guest guest]

This isn't a practice that I have done - I rebel too easily to it. But

if I'm not mistaken, the purpose of a 'food diary' is to not tally up

HOW MUCH, but to help you understand how YOUR BODY reacted to each/all

that food. See if you can make notes that reflect - what food eaten,

why you wanted to eat that food and how you felt when you did. This

process helps not only with re-discovering your internal body

sensations but also to start identifying body hunger vs. emotional

comfort type eating. And even the latter isn't 'bad' so much as its

good for you to be AWARE of so that you can make eating decisions

based on as many of YOUR own factors as possible.

Best wishes - Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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> I've been writing down what I eat each day too. I think it's

> helpful, and it's been helping me gain trust in myself (realizing I

> WON'T eat a week's worth of food in one day if I don't plan it all

> out beforhand). I do have a bad habit of adding up the calories at

> the end of every night, but at least it's not all through out the

> day. It does kind of make me feel bad sometimes though.

[Guest guest]

Katcha wrote:

> This isn't a practice that I have done - I rebel too easily to it.

I rebel against food diaries as well, even though it sounds useful to

keep a food diary (at least for a while) the way e. g. G. Roth

recommends it. I think I still feel reminded of the several times I

tried to keep a food diary. I also had to write one before applying for

WLS (was denied, unfortunately), so maybe this experience is holding me

back as well. A food diary is also too much of a hassle.

May I ask what makes you rebelling against keeping one?

Regards

s.

[Guest guest]

Gail, I know I did and I've also noticed that many others here did

this too - we are so focused on what, when, IF we should eat instead

of - am I (body) hungry? What do I feel like my body wants to eat? and

how do I anticipate my body will feel if I eat X? There really will

come a turning point when you can start listening to your body's inner

needs instead of having your 'head' drive the show with all the

'shoulds' that have moved in on us all.

Keep up the good work and notice as much inward as you can.

gail here......

I think my original post might have been misunderstood. My writing

down of my food was not a food diary for me. It was a way to embrace

a peaceful feeling around what I had consumed. The book I am reading

says when I feel shame around what I have eaten it's important to

replay the eating experience until I can do it without negative

feeling attached to it. So I thought writing it here where people are

on the same journey I am and not condeming might help this process.

Just wanted to clarify that.

[Guest guest]

Right you are!! :)

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> I think my original post might have been misunderstood. My writing

> down of my food was not a food diary for me. It was a way to embrace

> a peaceful feeling around what I had consumed. The book I am reading

> says when I feel shame around what I have eaten it's important to

> replay the eating experience until I can do it without negative

> feeling attached to it. So I thought writing it here where people are

> on the same journey I am and not condeming might help this process.

> Just wanted to clarify that.

>