taboo topic

[Guest guest]

I know this may be an unhappy topic for some, but I'm wondering, has

anyone experienced getting to their natural weight through intuitive

eating? I just began the process in August and am struggling with

believing that this will actually happen for me. I know this is not a

quick and easy process, but I'm struggling with weight gain right

now. I know others are in the same boat, it's just so hard to stick

with it when I feel like I am doing the opposite that I want to be

doing to my body right now.

My end goal is truly peace with food and my body, but this has been a

more painful and anxiety provoking process than I predicted.

My scale is still in the closet and I have not weighed in a few days,

so I wonder if my mind is playing tricks on me, but I don't want to

turn back to the scale for my reality check.

Sorry for this anxious rant. I guess I'm just looking for some hope

from the more experienced IE'ers. I also want to believe that what

you say in response is true, but this little voice in my head is

saying that you will only tell me what I want to hear to make me feel

better You may be thinking that if there's a little voice in this

girl's head, she has much bigger problems than learning to eat

intuitively...LOL!

Thanks,

Kari

IEing since August 21st

[Guest guest]

emu624 wrote:

> Sorry for this anxious rant. I guess I'm just looking for some hope

> from the more experienced IE'ers.

I don't know if I'm " experienced " or not. I've " played " with the idea of

ND/IE for years now, being on and off. I'm into ND for a bit over a year

now without a break, I think. I have lost quite a bit of weight but I

have to say that I'm far from being normal weight.

So you can lose weight doing IE, but I have to say that I don't know if

you can reach a normal weight if you have been e. g. morbidly obese like

I was[1]. I still fear the deprivation that I might have to face when

wanting to be a normal weight. I don't feel deprived now but I'm still

far away from a normal weight and I don't think I'm eating that much.

> I also want to believe that what

> you say in response is true, but this little voice in my head is

> saying that you will only tell me what I want to hear to make me feel

> better

I'm not that kind of person (makes me kind of unpopular on boards and

lists sometimes) so I think you can believe me. :-)

Regards

s.

[1] The " true " intuitive eater maybe shouldn't be so proud about this,

huh? After all I'm not worth more as a human being right now that I'm no

longer morbidly obese. Yet I can't help feeling like this which shows

that I'm far from being over " this weight thing " .