Guest guest Posted July 11, 2011 Report Share Posted July 11, 2011 Hi there, I am and I have been trying to eat listening to my body for 15 years. I did very well the first 5 years and felt freedom and so much happiness. After my second child I never got fully back to not overeating or letting myself get hungry. Just recently after spending 6 months fasting off and on- I find that I cannot stop eating again. Possibly my body is responding to fasting. However all of a sudden I feel like I have an eating disorder again after 15 years. So I signed up for OA and some other support groups mainly for the support I can get. I read intuitive eating about 6 years ago and it reiterated the books I had read 15 years ago (1-overcoming overeating and 2-when women stop hating their bodies) and I really liked it. However I should check it out again and re-read it. I look forward to having a support network of people who are trying to learn the same skill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Welcome . I too had to make a 'second go' at not dieting. I read and loved all of Geenen Roth's books in the early 1990s but 'her' ways (mainly journaling) wasn't what I could use. And for sure there were no support groups along non-dieting back then. When I had had enough fighting with my own body - aka dieting, which of course was THE suggestion offered by doctor etc. - I looked for non-dieting support. happily I found what I needed right here! IE clicked with me and I also found Overcoming Overeating to be wonderful as well. Post away and hope you share your IE journey as that helps all of us too. Best to you, Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > Hi there, > > I am and I have been trying to eat listening to my body for 15 years. I did very well the first 5 years and felt freedom and so much happiness. After my second child I never got fully back to not overeating or letting myself get hungry. > > Just recently after spending 6 months fasting off and on- I find that I cannot stop eating again. Possibly my body is responding to fasting. However all of a sudden I feel like I have an eating disorder again after 15 years. So I signed up for OA and some other support groups mainly for the support I can get. I read intuitive eating about 6 years ago and it reiterated the books I had read 15 years ago (1-overcoming overeating and 2-when women stop hating their bodies) and I really liked it. However I should check it out again and re-read it. > > I look forward to having a support network of people who are trying to learn the same skill. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 thank you for your welcome...so great that you have been doing this since 2007. All the comments have been so helpful already!! Welcome . I too had to make a 'second go' at not dieting. I read and loved all of Geenen Roth's books in the early 1990s but 'her' ways (mainly journaling) wasn't what I could use. And for sure there were no support groups along non-dieting back then. When I had had enough fighting with my own body - aka dieting, which of course was THE suggestion offered by doctor etc. - I looked for non-dieting support. happily I found what I needed right here! IE clicked with me and I also found Overcoming Overeating to be wonderful as well. Post away and hope you share your IE journey as that helps all of us too. Best to you, Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > Hi there, > > I am and I have been trying to eat listening to my body for 15 years. I did very well the first 5 years and felt freedom and so much happiness. After my second child I never got fully back to not overeating or letting myself get hungry. > > Just recently after spending 6 months fasting off and on- I find that I cannot stop eating again. Possibly my body is responding to fasting. However all of a sudden I feel like I have an eating disorder again after 15 years. So I signed up for OA and some other support groups mainly for the support I can get. I read intuitive eating about 6 years ago and it reiterated the books I had read 15 years ago (1-overcoming overeating and 2-when women stop hating their bodies) and I really liked it. However I should check it out again and re-read it. > > I look forward to having a support network of people who are trying to learn the same skill. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 Welcome and RIGHT on!! Life is weigh too short as it is ;-) Looking forward to more posts from you as you go on your IE journey. Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > Hi guys, > I read the book Intuitive Eating several years ago but I apparently wasn't ready for it as I continued to diet. Finally, though, I hit diet bottom and started reading it again. This time I'm actually hearing the message! I am so over diets... and since I stopped dieting a month ago I've been a lot happier. I am only on chapter 3 right now and am just working on letting go of the diet mentality and honoring my hunger but I have already found that I am eating less because for me dieting was resulting in way too many 'last suppers'. I just don't feel this compulsion to eat everything in sight because I know, now, that I can eat whenever I want/need to. When eating my favorite foods I can actually stop eating before I'm uncomfortably full because I know that there will always be another good meal next time I'm hungry. > Also, I haven't weighed myself in weeks (this is hard!) and am not focusing on weight loss as a goal anymore. I am already in the healthy weight range for my height and even though I have tried every diet under the sun for the last 5 or so years the only result has been me gaining a few EXTRA pounds. What's the point? I'm just going to focus on living life and being happy and healthy. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 Welcome! I so can relate about the last suppers. I'd gotten to a point that everyday was a last supper. That's not a way to eat . . . or to live! Hi guys, I read the book Intuitive Eating several years ago but I apparently wasn't ready for it as I continued to diet. Finally, though, I hit diet bottom and started reading it again. This time I'm actually hearing the message! I am so over diets... and since I stopped dieting a month ago I've been a lot happier. I am only on chapter 3 right now and am just working on letting go of the diet mentality and honoring my hunger but I have already found that I am eating less because for me dieting was resulting in way too many 'last suppers'. I just don't feel this compulsion to eat everything in sight because I know, now, that I can eat whenever I want/need to. When eating my favorite foods I can actually stop eating before I'm uncomfortably full because I know that there will always be another good meal next time I'm hungry. Also, I haven't weighed myself in weeks (this is hard!) and am not focusing on weight loss as a goal anymore. I am already in the healthy weight range for my height and even though I have tried every diet under the sun for the last 5 or so years the only result has been me gaining a few EXTRA pounds. What's the point? I'm just going to focus on living life and being happy and healthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 sanamu, " last supper " also means that you eat all the " bad " foods, the ones that your diet said were " forbidden " ; you eat them all at once before you can't have them any more of them when you start your diet tomorrow. IE's thinking is that you can have whatever you want(no forbidden foods) and that takes out the need for the " last supper " . Sandy Welcome from another newbie... I hadn't heard the term " last supper " before.... It's exactly what I've been doing for years now - day in and day out. " This is the absolute last time I'm going to eat.... " What a powerful weapon against getting to know what the body needs/wants. I want to be happy around food and my self image too; enough of the goal-directed food plans. > > Hi guys, > I read the book Intuitive Eating several years ago but I apparently wasn't ready for it as I continued to diet. Finally, though, I hit diet bottom and started reading it again. This time I'm actually hearing the message! I am so over diets... and since I stopped dieting a month ago I've been a lot happier. I am only on chapter 3 right now and am just working on letting go of the diet mentality and honoring my hunger but I have already found that I am eating less because for me dieting was resulting in way too many 'last suppers'. I just don't feel this compulsion to eat everything in sight because I know, now, that I can eat whenever I want/need to. When eating my favorite foods I can actually stop eating before I'm uncomfortably full because I know that there will always be another good meal next time I'm hungry. > Also, I haven't weighed myself in weeks (this is hard!) and am not focusing on weight loss as a goal anymore. I am already in the healthy weight range for my height and even though I have tried every diet under the sun for the last 5 or so years the only result has been me gaining a few EXTRA pounds. What's the point? I'm just going to focus on living life and being happy and healthy. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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