Re: What if you never get hungry?

[Guest guest]

I never thought of it that way but yes it is adult thinking. What I say to myself is how an adult should talk to a child about food....."yes you can have that to eat but remember how you felt the last time?"

Subject: Re: What if you never get hungry?To: IntuitiveEating_Support Received: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 10:06 AM

Kip:YES! And looking at it that way takes all the deprivation feelings out the way. It is like going from a child to an adult in your thinking , something that, at the ripe old age of 46, I am just learning to do!!> > From: <knic402002@ ...>> Subject: [intuitiveEating_ Support] Re: What if you never get hungry?> To: IntuitiveEating_ Support@yahoogro ups.com> Received: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 7:03 AM> > > > > > > I have to say, though, that I do feel better when I eat breakfast. So > I am going to continue to do it, because I am used to it. But mostly > because I have tried both ways, and I feel better when I eat breakfast, > not because of anyone else's preaching. That's what I love about IE, I >

am in control and *I* get to make these decisions.> > I have come to the same conclusions about certain foods. I totally > love sweets, but I am not willing to suffer the consequences of eating > them most of the time. If I eat pizza or cake I have to pay a price, I > am coming to realize most of the time it is not worth it. Just being > AWARE of the consequences is a huge step. For instance, I had one > slice of pizza on Sunday. And yesterday shall we say my digestive > system was not working properly. So I KNEW that. I also KNEW that the > problem would go away and that it would not kill me. I get to go in > with my eyes open. And for some reason that has taken the fear of food > away from me. I don't even find myself saying "oh you SHOULDN'T HAVE > THAT!". Now it is "if you have that, you will having cravings, you > will feel tired, you

will get constipated, you will etc etc." And if I > choose to have it anyway, I can live with the consequences. Hope I am > making sense here. This is very freeing to me, and quells a lot of my > food anxiety which was caused by listening to umpteen different gurus > giving me contradictory advice.> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _> Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail. yahoo.ca>

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[Guest guest]

Great posts one and all. Staring at the clock to determine if I'm

hungry has finally clicked for me as the idiocy that it is.

What I've learned (as least about myself) is that I don't have

" absolutes " when it comes to IE. Sometimes I want breakfast...but not

always. In fact most of the time I'm not hungry for breakfast. On

those days I pass on the oatmeal or toast and instead find myself

hungry sooner (10:00 am as opposed to noon). Fine - time to eat. I

remember that I've given myself permission to eat any time I'm hungry

(10:00 am, midnight, hourly...whatever).

Some days I'm not hungry at all for almost the whole day. Why? I

dunno...and I don't really care, either. I've given up trying to

establish any sort of a causal relationship between eating times,

activities and hunger levels. My body is waaaay smarter than I am and

Ive finally accepted it.

[Guest guest]

All I can say is that I fully agree. I am learning to deal with the

fact that I still won't eat that foods that cause me problems often --

because I don't want to deprive myself from feeling good from the

INSIDE OUT, not because of a fear of how my body would look

EXTERNALLY.

> I have come to the same conclusions about certain foods. I totally

love sweets, but I am not willing to suffer the consequences of eating

them most of the time. If I eat pizza or cake I have to pay a price,

I am coming to realize most of the time it is not worth it.

> I also KNEW that the problem would go away and that it would not kill

me.

[Guest guest]

Gold Stars for you !! Good job that your body is now running the

show. That's how it always was meant to be - KUDOS!!

Katcha

>

> Great posts one and all. Staring at the clock to determine if I'm

> hungry has finally clicked for me as the idiocy that it is.

>

> What I've learned (as least about myself) is that I don't have

> " absolutes " when it comes to IE. Sometimes I want breakfast...but not

> always. In fact most of the time I'm not hungry for breakfast. On

> those days I pass on the oatmeal or toast and instead find myself

> hungry sooner (10:00 am as opposed to noon). Fine - time to eat. I

> remember that I've given myself permission to eat any time I'm hungry

> (10:00 am, midnight, hourly...whatever).

>

> Some days I'm not hungry at all for almost the whole day. Why? I

> dunno...and I don't really care, either. I've given up trying to

> establish any sort of a causal relationship between eating times,

> activities and hunger levels. My body is waaaay smarter than I am and

> Ive finally accepted it.

>