Guest guest Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Hi , I'm new too; but not totally new to the intuitive eating idea. I laughed when I read about your going from low carb to WW to low carb and back to WW again. I have so many WW diet plan folders from quitting and re-joining I deserve frequent flyer miles. I'm not throwing any of that out yet - scales and diet books all stay until I feel secure in this which could be years. I've spent too much money over buying and replacing - including throwing out food that was suddenly illegal and never going to pass my lips again. Never ever. Until I changed plans again. Anyways, welcome from another newbie. > > > > Hi all, > > My name is and I just joined the group last week. I've spent the last 20 years of my life dieting and I'm done. About 2 years ago I picked up " Intuitive Eating " , read it, thought it was brilliant, but just couldn't let go of the dieting mentality. In the back of my head I kept believing that I'd never be in control of my eating because I couldn't gain control with dieting so how would I ever do it if all food became " legal " ??? I'm not sure what happened last week, but I would go to bed after binging all day (while on my beloved lowcarb diet), and I couldn't sleep because I was SO fearful of not being able to get it together enough to stick with a diet and finally lose this weight. In one week I went from lowcarb to Weight Watchers, back to lowcarb and then decided that Weight Watchers really was the best choice for me. Lord have mercy. That was exhausting!!! Today is day 4 of my journey and it's really been eye-opening. The first thing I realized was I had NO clue what true hunger was. How sad is that??? Another major discovery for me was that I don't often get hungry. No wonder I'm fat. I was eating all the time and never truly hungry. Yes, I'm a VERY emotional eater because it's easier to eat than feel! Anyway, the other night I picked up my book again and it just seemed like everything made sense and fear was gone. All my diet books are gone as is my scale. Tomorrow I will grocery shop for the first time in 20 years and buy what I like rather than what the diet of the week dictates. I think my biggest problem is going to be recognizing when I'm satisfied and stopping. Practice makes perfect I suppose  > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Hi , I'm new too; but not totally new to the intuitive eating idea. I laughed when I read about your going from low carb to WW to low carb and back to WW again. I have so many WW diet plan folders from quitting and re-joining I deserve frequent flyer miles. I'm not throwing any of that out yet - scales and diet books all stay until I feel secure in this which could be years. I've spent too much money over buying and replacing - including throwing out food that was suddenly illegal and never going to pass my lips again. Never ever. Until I changed plans again. Anyways, welcome from another newbie. > > > > Hi all, > > My name is and I just joined the group last week. I've spent the last 20 years of my life dieting and I'm done. About 2 years ago I picked up " Intuitive Eating " , read it, thought it was brilliant, but just couldn't let go of the dieting mentality. In the back of my head I kept believing that I'd never be in control of my eating because I couldn't gain control with dieting so how would I ever do it if all food became " legal " ??? I'm not sure what happened last week, but I would go to bed after binging all day (while on my beloved lowcarb diet), and I couldn't sleep because I was SO fearful of not being able to get it together enough to stick with a diet and finally lose this weight. In one week I went from lowcarb to Weight Watchers, back to lowcarb and then decided that Weight Watchers really was the best choice for me. Lord have mercy. That was exhausting!!! Today is day 4 of my journey and it's really been eye-opening. The first thing I realized was I had NO clue what true hunger was. How sad is that??? Another major discovery for me was that I don't often get hungry. No wonder I'm fat. I was eating all the time and never truly hungry. Yes, I'm a VERY emotional eater because it's easier to eat than feel! Anyway, the other night I picked up my book again and it just seemed like everything made sense and fear was gone. All my diet books are gone as is my scale. Tomorrow I will grocery shop for the first time in 20 years and buy what I like rather than what the diet of the week dictates. I think my biggest problem is going to be recognizing when I'm satisfied and stopping. Practice makes perfect I suppose  > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Hi , I'm new too; but not totally new to the intuitive eating idea. I laughed when I read about your going from low carb to WW to low carb and back to WW again. I have so many WW diet plan folders from quitting and re-joining I deserve frequent flyer miles. I'm not throwing any of that out yet - scales and diet books all stay until I feel secure in this which could be years. I've spent too much money over buying and replacing - including throwing out food that was suddenly illegal and never going to pass my lips again. Never ever. Until I changed plans again. Anyways, welcome from another newbie. > > > > Hi all, > > My name is and I just joined the group last week. I've spent the last 20 years of my life dieting and I'm done. About 2 years ago I picked up " Intuitive Eating " , read it, thought it was brilliant, but just couldn't let go of the dieting mentality. In the back of my head I kept believing that I'd never be in control of my eating because I couldn't gain control with dieting so how would I ever do it if all food became " legal " ??? I'm not sure what happened last week, but I would go to bed after binging all day (while on my beloved lowcarb diet), and I couldn't sleep because I was SO fearful of not being able to get it together enough to stick with a diet and finally lose this weight. In one week I went from lowcarb to Weight Watchers, back to lowcarb and then decided that Weight Watchers really was the best choice for me. Lord have mercy. That was exhausting!!! Today is day 4 of my journey and it's really been eye-opening. The first thing I realized was I had NO clue what true hunger was. How sad is that??? Another major discovery for me was that I don't often get hungry. No wonder I'm fat. I was eating all the time and never truly hungry. Yes, I'm a VERY emotional eater because it's easier to eat than feel! Anyway, the other night I picked up my book again and it just seemed like everything made sense and fear was gone. All my diet books are gone as is my scale. Tomorrow I will grocery shop for the first time in 20 years and buy what I like rather than what the diet of the week dictates. I think my biggest problem is going to be recognizing when I'm satisfied and stopping. Practice makes perfect I suppose  > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 Glad to have you here ! I came here a couple weeks ago after getting off a low carb diet! You will get a lot of encouragement here! I can relate to not knowing when to stop eating, that's my biggest obstacle right now!!! Look forward to hearing from you more! Barb Subject: IntroductionTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 5:30 PM Hi all, My name is and I just joined the group last week. I've spent the last 20 years of my life dieting and I'm done. About 2 years ago I picked up "Intuitive Eating", read it, thought it was brilliant, but just couldn't let go of the dieting mentality. In the back of my head I kept believing that I'd never be in control of my eating because I couldn't gain control with dieting so how would I ever do it if all food became "legal"??? I'm not sure what happened last week, but I would go to bed after binging all day (while on my beloved lowcarb diet), and I couldn't sleep because I was SO fearful of not being able to get it together enough to stick with a diet and finally lose this weight. In one week I went from lowcarb to Weight Watchers, back to lowcarb and then decided that Weight Watchers really was the best choice for me. Lord have mercy. That was exhausting!!! Today is day 4 of my journey and it's really been eye-opening. The first thing I realized was I had NO clue what true hunger was. How sad is that??? Another major discovery for me was that I don't often get hungry. No wonder I'm fat. I was eating all the time and never truly hungry. Yes, I'm a VERY emotional eater because it's easier to eat than feel! Anyway, the other night I picked up my book again and it just seemed like everything made sense and fear was gone. All my diet books are gone as is my scale. Tomorrow I will grocery shop for the first time in 20 years and buy what I like rather than what the diet of the week dictates. I think my biggest problem is going to be recognizing when I'm satisfied and stopping. Practice makes perfect I suppose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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