Re: Re: First Steps?

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Judi,

That is so awesome, how you ate your breakfast! There is something so nuturing about what you said to yourself as you ate. I love it!!

I remember when I ate a peach very mindfully...I could actually taste the suble difference between the peach skin and the peach flesh. And when I chewed, I could taste the peach juice in my mouth. So sensual!!! LOL! Best peach ever

I have eaten very mindfully a bunch of time since then, and the experience is very satisfying - the food, taste, feeling of fullness...It's wonderful.

I used to wolf down food, too, barely noticing flavor texture, etc. And my head going thru the litany of "that's enough food" or "you shouldn't eat that" on and on.

Congrats!

Kim

IE since Aug 08

Judi, I look at IE as a 'feast' - you can try and stuff as much intoyou mouth as fast as you can manage to do that, but mostly like youwouldn't be happy with how you feel if you did that. Same thing withIE - there is SO MUCH there, but you really can't 'take in' all of itat one gobble. So what I do is to choose ONE thing/aspect of IE andplay around with that until I am comfortable with that practice. Then,if I feel I can and am ready, I do another IE practice/suggestion .Baby steps may frustrate us at first because we do want to RUN withIE! But its like the turtle and the rabbit - slow and steady wins therace. Diets are about 'suffering' - depraving, shame and guilt abound. IEsuggests that eating is a necessary PLEASURE, and that is so foreignto anyone who has followed the 'rules' of dieting. With IE YOU chooseand discover your own guidelines. And being gentle with one's selfduring this

process helps bunches too. If you had to choose just ONEIE thing to do, what would it be? Take that thought and tip-toe intothat choice to see what it brings to you. BEST to you, KatchaIEing since March 2007>> I'm new to IE. I've spent 45 years dieting. I've been thin for shortperiods> and loved it and me, too, then.> But hated how my thoughts and life revolved around the calories, fatgrams> and/or points of whatever got me to thin. It totally took over my life.> Now I want to come from within. I hope I getter thinner. But most ofall I> want to trust myself (and love myself).> Right now I'm reading everything I can lay my hands on about IE.> I'm bingeing on info about IE.> Like bingeing on food, I been gulping down books and articles andemails.> None of it is digesting.> I'm overloaded and I'm so afraid of not getting it right. Of failing. Of> judging myself as bad.> I'm kinda in muddle right now and can't think/feel my way out.> Those of you who have been down this path, can you

advise me whereto focus.> What should I do first?> Where, from your experience, would you recommend I start?> I'd appreciate some pointers.> Thanks.> judi>