Guest guest Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Laytoya hugs to you for recognizing these feelings and I also struggle with eating to comfort myself although I don't do it as often now. Eva I was remembering that section in the IE book "A Strange Gift" that talks about how we get signals as to when the stress in our life exceeds our ability to cope. I'm feeling that pressure right now. I'm going through an angry, tired, and low energy phase and have been challenged with not using food to cope with intense emotions. I'm wondering how I'm going to navigate through this. I recognize that I become much more vulnerable to using food when my energy gets low like now...and I noticed at the same time, last night I was paying attention to my fullness when I did eat to calm myself and that didn't seem to require any extra effort...I have a whole host of things to "do" to cope with my emotions without dealing with food including, just watching my thoughts and sitting with my emotions...and I don't want to "do", nor do I feel like I have the energy to do any of these things...I guess what's nice is that I'm not using food regularly anymore...I have more confidence that what I'm feeling right now will shift sooner or later, I recognize that I'm facing alot of uncertainty in my life right now, and I went from my walk this morning. I had been skipping and dancing...it seems like it's back to putting one foot in front of the other....LatoyaPracticing IE since Jan '08------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Kari,That I know the "way back" or the "way forward" is such a good way of holding my experience right now. Thanks for that. Yeah, I can't even really describe it...practicing the IE principles all of this year has helped create such a new understanding and a new and more balanced way of dealing with my life. I even felt the "hum" or distortion of emotions along with my true hunger signals today. Earlier, I ate when I was hungry and wanted to continue eating past full, yet I recognized that I was trying to feel "better" and food wasn't going to really help with that.I so agree with you on the work you've been doing with your hubby! Dealing with well-meaning family and friends requires that we communicate our responses to their statements or glances, how we envision our relationship with food, and that we are more than capable of monitoring ourselves. Most of us have spent our entire life being conditioned about good and bad foods, weight, body image, etc...influencing and helping bring about new "paradigm" starts and gets stronger with pioneers like us. Latoya:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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