Re: Checking in

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Dawn,

I felt a sense of frustration and possibly helplessness in your

message? I think you might need to ramble some more. Do you

journal at all? Rambling (talking or writing things) out with myself

usually helps make things much clearer for me. I don't think IE

would have been nearly as effective for me if I hadn't gotten clear

about how I want to experience my life and my relationship with

eating and food on a very deep level.

If you're rebelling...maybe drop the IE label. Do the ideas like

waiting until you're hungry to eat make sense to you? What direction

do you want to go in...do you want to honor your hunger more?, do

you want to stop binging, do you want to move more?, do you want to

take care of yourself better? Baby steps are so important and very

helpful when we are feeling lost. Maybe set some small goals for

yourself...see if you can wait for hunger and monitor your fullness

for one meal each day...maybe you can toss a ball up and down for 15

minutes a day. To reinforce and to show my progress, I've tracked

myself on a calendar...so I can see the days that I've moved...you

could also track the days when you honored your hunger or your

fullness.

When I really sit with and ask myself, I can get a sense of what I

really want and what I'm willing and able to do at a given point in

time. What are you willing and able to do right now? If you're

needing or wanting a sense of direction, how can you create that for

yourself? It's awesome that you're becoming more aware of tasting

your food. Some part of you was willing and able to do that and you

can build on that.

Ehugs,

Latoya:)

>

> Hi everyone... I wanted to stick my head in the door here to try to

> connect with everyone. I am trying to give up on diets, and 12 step

> stuff because non of it has ever worked at all. However, it seems

that

> as much as I want to embrace intuitive eating I find that I am

> rebelling if that makes sense against the idea. I just feel like I

am

> rolling around my days now with no direction and my eating is just

> nuts. One thing that I have become aware of is tasting my food

instead

> of inhaling my food. I don't do it all the time but I am becoming

more

> aware of it.

>

> Anyway, I just wanted to reach out because I am really needing some

> connections and support these days. Physically I am really in a

> horrible place right now. My legs are giving out on me and of

course I

> am telling myself I have to " diet " to get my act together so to

speak.

>

> OK I have to end because I am just rattling nonsense.

>

> Peace-

> Dawn

>