RE: ugh.

[Guest guest]

I always tell my clients (and have to

remember for myself) that taking a step back is a gift because there is a

lesson to be learned. Overeating is a habit for you, it will not change

overnight. But as others have said, being conscious is a huge step.

What would happen if everything went great

for weeks with eating intuitively? You probably would think you have it

handled, relax a bit about it, and then when something major hits in your life

(and it’s bound to happen), then what are you going to do? You won’t

have the skills to deal with the stress and dealing with your feelings and your

needs. These things happen to help you learn the skills to handle the bigger

stuff later on.

Research has shown that we create “grooves”

in our brain when we repeat the same task over and over again. So imagine how

deep that stress/overeating groove is! With IE you are learning to create a new

groove, but it takes time and repetition. I promise you, with practice, one day

it will become natural to not turn to food, you won’t even have to think

about it. It’s a great feeling when you realize it.

Please change your thought from this being

a huge step back to a lesson you needed to learn in order to make that new

groove in your brain a little deeper. I like to visual the groove, it kind of

gives me an anchor.

Thanks!

Gillian

Gillian

Hood-son, MS, ACSM

Healthier Outcomes

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From:

IntuitiveEating_Support [mailto:IntuitiveEating_Support ]

On Behalf Of christina.depalma

Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008

12:52 PM

To:

IntuitiveEating_Support

Subject:

ugh.

so i've been practicing IE for about a week now and

i've been feeling

SO much better... i thought i was really starting to get in-tune with

my body. i'm in college, so my eating patterns tend to be structured

around when i have classes/work but i was surprised how often i just

plowed through food just.. because. just because it was there and it

was 'time' to eat. granted i only ate the foods i was 'allowed' to eat

(i.e. salads and other low calorie foods) but then i'd binge on cereal

and chocolate regularly (hence the 10 pounds i'm struggling with).

so today for lunch i came back and had a piece of whole wheat bread

with PB and honey (yum!) and an apple-and i felt satisfied. until i sat

down at my computer and started gobbling at M & Ms (the almond kind

haha). at first it was consciously, but then i just started plowing

through them just because!!! it was so frustrating, especially because

i knew i was hurting myself as it was happening. i feel like i've taken

a huge step back and its really frustrating