Guest guest Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Yeah, that is really hepful. Thanks so much for taking the time! I will try to explain what I meant by that one question. I am using a servings per day guide, such as is reccommended for healthy eating near the end of the book. So say I have servings of this or that left over near the end of the day. If I craved chocolate or ice cream, I could allow myself to go a head have a serving of it, knowing it was a trade off for healthier choices. Calories for calories, so to speak. Does that make sense? I would be allowing myself to have, " everything is permissilbe " still the main goal in mind. It would help with the moderation part. My first week, I tried to make peace with chocolate and candy by bringing it into the house in a large quantity. Didn't work.... ate is all in a few days. So I can see I will need to go with the approach of going to buy only what I want at the moment to make peace with it. Having most of these foods in the house is just too hard right now and seems unwise. I want to feel good too as I go through the process. Again thanks so much for your help! Sally -- In IntuitiveEating_Support , " latoyajw " wrote: > > Sally, > > I think I understood everything except for this line: " Why can't it > work to kindly allow less healthy choices when I need to in place of > other healthy food I would have eaten? " Could you say more about this? > > Are you saying that you made a list of taboo foods and are going down > that list legalizing/making peace with each food? > > I've made peace gradually with different foods throughout my practice > of IE. I've choose to make peace with a food only when I started to > crave the food or had an interest in a food (at the grocery store). > This is partly what the " intuitive " part of IE is about for > me..responding and working with my needs and wants as I have them. > > For example, I love chocolate pudding cups. Before IE, I would buy one > of those 4 cup packs by Jello and I would eat the 4 cups within a 24 > hour period. After starting IE, I was buying groceries and my body was > like oh, I'd like some of that jello pudding. So, I bought it. I ate > the first cup when I felt hungry and really tasted it. I asked myself > if I wanted another cup. I didn't. So, I also ate some more filling > food too. The acts of learning to honor my hunger and my satisfaction > factor seemed to be enough to help me make peace with this food. A > week later, I still had 1 of the 4 cups left and that brought me a > real sense of accomplishment and freedom. I may have bought a 4 pack > one more time this year, but other than that I haven't wanted jello > pudding. > > Now, like you I have foods that I don't think I'll ever get tired of > (that are more regular items) in my food bag like ice cream and potato > chips that have been discussed. Some foods, I keep in the house > regularly and some food like chips and ice cream, I only buy when I > want them because I can get chips and ice cream anywhere at just about > anytime. So, again when I wanted some honey dijon chips that I love, I > bought them. As I ate them I really tasted them. I like eating a > sandwich with them so I did that. Then, I found myself munching on > them over the next day because they are so good and convenient (no > cooking), which part of me had a problem with because they are pretty > high calorie. I haven't felt the need to buy those chips again. Though > my brother had a bag of chips in the cabinet the other day. I got a > yearning for the warmth and taste of potato and again they are so > convenient. So, again, I tried to really taste the chips as I ate them > and found myself munching on them over the course a couple of days. > This time though, I still had chips in the bag after several days. So, > I've made peace gradually. I can also keep ice cream in the fridge > longer following this process. > > Does my experience help answer your question? > > Latoya > > I would just like to make those choices > > occassionally, not daily. > > > > Love to hear feedback...thanks! > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Thanks, . Your input helped me. Sounds like you are learning to just make wiser choices about what things are just too tempting if they are easily accessible. I am learning that too! It's like, just dumb to make this harder than it has to be....we have a brain and there needs to be balance for all of us I think. Thanks again, Sally > I would just like to make those choices > > occassionally, not daily. > > > > Love to hear feedback...thanks! > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Sally you really are putting good effort into your IE journey. What is coming up for me as I read your posts is a tiny bit of 'diet' mentality. Its very usually for anyone who has followed diet plans to turn IE into a set of 'rules' or limits etc. What usually happens is a reaction the same as dieting does - rebellion to being limited/'told' (even by yourself!) what/when/how etc. I must admit that while I understood how the EXternal dictates didn't work, I needed a lot of time and trying out of new and even (previously) 'bad' practices (overeating, 'bad foods' etc.) before my HEAD gave way to my BODY and I was able to tune into the INternal signals I needed. Healthy?!? I always loved broccoli and could overeat it at meals when I was already full because it was 'healthy' (and lower calories). But was overeating it any more 'healthy' than if I had only ate a bowl of ice cream which had less calories than my whole meal?!? These days 'healthy' is whatever my body tells me it needs - broccoli or ice cream ;-) Best to you - Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > Yeah, that is really hepful. Thanks so much for taking the time! I > will try to explain what I meant by that one question. I am using a > servings per day guide, such as is reccommended for healthy eating > near the end of the book. So say I have servings of this or that > left over near the end of the day. If I craved chocolate or ice > cream, I could allow myself to go a head have a serving of it, > knowing it was a trade off for healthier choices. Calories for > calories, so to speak. Does that make sense? I would be allowing > myself to have, " everything is permissilbe " still the main goal in > mind. It would help with the moderation part. My first week, I > tried to make peace with chocolate and candy by bringing it into the > house in a large quantity. Didn't work.... ate is all in a few > days. So I can see I will need to go with the approach of going to > buy only what I want at the moment to make peace with it. Having > most of these foods in the house is just too hard right now and seems > unwise. I want to feel good too as I go through the process. > > Again thanks so much for your help! > > Sally > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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