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Posted July 29, 2011 · July 29, 2011

Hey, nuke, thanks for posting. I think many of us are looking for that magical cure. Again, I bought ANOTHER diet book at Goodwill (real cheap), thinking maybe THIS ONE will 'cure' me. The 'low glycemic' diet. :-) But, of course, as soon as reality hit (about 1/2 hour later), I knew it was probably a waste of my $2.99. Oh well. Yes, I cannot diet, I know it now before I even start "another one." So, despite the fact that I come on here and complain about myself, I am learning to respect my body signals. (Not easy for me.) Maybe I respect it 2 out of 8 times, but it's better than 0 out of 8 times, and I hope and pray it will get better. The first thing I did was recognize my hunger signals. I cannot always wait to eat because I am traveling with my husband now, and whatever his "signals" are, they are

different than mine, also choice of restaurants, but I do my best, and the big thing I'm noticing where I'm changing is that I am more able to STOP EATING NOW when I am no longer hungry at the dinner table. This change is just starting, so I'm not too proficient at this, but it happened automatically recently for the first time, so that makes me kind of happy (despite that I'm probably gaining weight, although I'm no longer weighing myself, a losing proposition to weigh myself). Anyway, thanks for posting, nice that you're here. TaiTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:16 PMSubject: New Member

Hey folks,

I'm a new member here. Just a little about me, how I found intuitive eating, and what I hope to get out of the support group. My name is Terry. I am 47. My username is nukehomer because I work in the nuclear field, and also because I once bore a very embarrassing and striking resemblance to Homer Simpson. I am retired from the US Navy. I served from 1985 to 2005 on Submarines in the Navy Nuclear Power field. My problems with food were created while I was in the Navy. The Navy has height/weight standards, and every 6 months they would weigh us all in. I effectively spent my life yo-yo dieting in 6 month increments. By the time I got out of the Navy my weight had ballooned to over 300 pounds. When I retired I went to work at a nuclear facility. I started taking better care of myself, stopped the 6 month cycles, and actually lost weight, and got down to 188 pounds. I did this by following the weight watchers diet and by working out. As I see now, I was very

obsessive about it, and my working out was excessive. I kept the weight off for a year, which was very surprising to me, since I stopped restrictive dieting. I was actually following a form of intuitive eating, but didn't really know it at the time. After that year my work schedule had changed, and I started back to School to get my Master's Degree, and my poor eating habits returned. I saw my weight slowly over 2 years return to 270 pounds. I'd attempt diets, and have limited success, and once again that seesaw would inevitibly swing higher. I just couldn't understand how I could have been so successful before, and not now. I purchased the Intuitive eating book over a year ago, and started to read it, but as I started reading and seeing that it wasn't a diet book, I put it down. I wasn't looking for a real solution. I was looking for my next diet. That magical one that would finally work. Well, a year later and I weigh more than last year. I never

found that diet. I picked up the book again a few days ago, and read the entire thing. I was finally ready to find a solution to my issues with food. I really enjoyed the book. The part that I found interesting was how they accurately described all of the odd little things I do when I'm dieting. The all or nothing mentality I had, the binge eating etc..... Pretty much everything they described I could relate to. Everything they said about intuitive eating just made sense too. Ironically it just seemed intuitively obvious. I'm looking forward to learning all I can about intuitive eating. I figured the best way to do that is to talk to the people actually doing it. I look forward to sharing ideas with you all.

Posted July 29, 2011 · July 29, 2011

Terry, Welcome. I am excited to have you on board and look forward to sharing your journey. It sounds like I will be able to learn a lot from you too as I do from all the wonderful folks on the site. Keep positing and remember IE is a process and takes time. You are so right, it is not a diet. Sandy

Hey folks,

I'm a new member here. Just a little about me, how I found intuitive eating, and what I hope to get out of the support group. My name is Terry. I am 47. My username is nukehomer because I work in the nuclear field, and also because I once bore a very embarrassing and striking resemblance to Homer Simpson. I am retired from the US Navy. I served from 1985 to 2005 on Submarines in the Navy Nuclear Power field. My problems with food were created while I was in the Navy. The Navy has height/weight standards, and every 6 months they would weigh us all in. I effectively spent my life yo-yo dieting in 6 month increments. By the time I got out of the Navy my weight had ballooned to over 300 pounds. When I retired I went to work at a nuclear facility. I started taking better care of myself, stopped the 6 month cycles, and actually lost weight, and got down to 188 pounds. I did this by following the weight watchers diet and by working out. As I see now, I was very obsessive about it, and my working out was excessive. I kept the weight off for a year, which was very surprising to me, since I stopped restrictive dieting. I was actually following a form of intuitive eating, but didn't really know it at the time. After that year my work schedule had changed, and I started back to School to get my Master's Degree, and my poor eating habits returned. I saw my weight slowly over 2 years return to 270 pounds. I'd attempt diets, and have limited success, and once again that seesaw would inevitibly swing higher. I just couldn't understand how I could have been so successful before, and not now. I purchased the Intuitive eating book over a year ago, and started to read it, but as I started reading and seeing that it wasn't a diet book, I put it down. I wasn't looking for a real solution. I was looking for my next diet. That magical one that would finally work. Well, a year later and I weigh more than last year. I never found that diet. I picked up the book again a few days ago, and read the entire thing. I was finally ready to find a solution to my issues with food. I really enjoyed the book. The part that I found interesting was how they accurately described all of the odd little things I do when I'm dieting. The all or nothing mentality I had, the binge eating etc..... Pretty much everything they described I could relate to. Everything they said about intuitive eating just made sense too. Ironically it just seemed intuitively obvious. I'm looking forward to learning all I can about intuitive eating. I figured the best way to do that is to talk to the people actually doing it. I look forward to sharing ideas with you all.

Posted July 29, 2011 · July 29, 2011

Terry, Welcome. I am excited to have you on board and look forward to sharing your journey. It sounds like I will be able to learn a lot from you too as I do from all the wonderful folks on the site. Keep positing and remember IE is a process and takes time. You are so right, it is not a diet. Sandy

Hey folks,

I'm a new member here. Just a little about me, how I found intuitive eating, and what I hope to get out of the support group. My name is Terry. I am 47. My username is nukehomer because I work in the nuclear field, and also because I once bore a very embarrassing and striking resemblance to Homer Simpson. I am retired from the US Navy. I served from 1985 to 2005 on Submarines in the Navy Nuclear Power field. My problems with food were created while I was in the Navy. The Navy has height/weight standards, and every 6 months they would weigh us all in. I effectively spent my life yo-yo dieting in 6 month increments. By the time I got out of the Navy my weight had ballooned to over 300 pounds. When I retired I went to work at a nuclear facility. I started taking better care of myself, stopped the 6 month cycles, and actually lost weight, and got down to 188 pounds. I did this by following the weight watchers diet and by working out. As I see now, I was very obsessive about it, and my working out was excessive. I kept the weight off for a year, which was very surprising to me, since I stopped restrictive dieting. I was actually following a form of intuitive eating, but didn't really know it at the time. After that year my work schedule had changed, and I started back to School to get my Master's Degree, and my poor eating habits returned. I saw my weight slowly over 2 years return to 270 pounds. I'd attempt diets, and have limited success, and once again that seesaw would inevitibly swing higher. I just couldn't understand how I could have been so successful before, and not now. I purchased the Intuitive eating book over a year ago, and started to read it, but as I started reading and seeing that it wasn't a diet book, I put it down. I wasn't looking for a real solution. I was looking for my next diet. That magical one that would finally work. Well, a year later and I weigh more than last year. I never found that diet. I picked up the book again a few days ago, and read the entire thing. I was finally ready to find a solution to my issues with food. I really enjoyed the book. The part that I found interesting was how they accurately described all of the odd little things I do when I'm dieting. The all or nothing mentality I had, the binge eating etc..... Pretty much everything they described I could relate to. Everything they said about intuitive eating just made sense too. Ironically it just seemed intuitively obvious. I'm looking forward to learning all I can about intuitive eating. I figured the best way to do that is to talk to the people actually doing it. I look forward to sharing ideas with you all.

Posted July 29, 2011 · July 29, 2011

Terry, Welcome. I am excited to have you on board and look forward to sharing your journey. It sounds like I will be able to learn a lot from you too as I do from all the wonderful folks on the site. Keep positing and remember IE is a process and takes time. You are so right, it is not a diet. Sandy

Hey folks,

I'm a new member here. Just a little about me, how I found intuitive eating, and what I hope to get out of the support group. My name is Terry. I am 47. My username is nukehomer because I work in the nuclear field, and also because I once bore a very embarrassing and striking resemblance to Homer Simpson. I am retired from the US Navy. I served from 1985 to 2005 on Submarines in the Navy Nuclear Power field. My problems with food were created while I was in the Navy. The Navy has height/weight standards, and every 6 months they would weigh us all in. I effectively spent my life yo-yo dieting in 6 month increments. By the time I got out of the Navy my weight had ballooned to over 300 pounds. When I retired I went to work at a nuclear facility. I started taking better care of myself, stopped the 6 month cycles, and actually lost weight, and got down to 188 pounds. I did this by following the weight watchers diet and by working out. As I see now, I was very obsessive about it, and my working out was excessive. I kept the weight off for a year, which was very surprising to me, since I stopped restrictive dieting. I was actually following a form of intuitive eating, but didn't really know it at the time. After that year my work schedule had changed, and I started back to School to get my Master's Degree, and my poor eating habits returned. I saw my weight slowly over 2 years return to 270 pounds. I'd attempt diets, and have limited success, and once again that seesaw would inevitibly swing higher. I just couldn't understand how I could have been so successful before, and not now. I purchased the Intuitive eating book over a year ago, and started to read it, but as I started reading and seeing that it wasn't a diet book, I put it down. I wasn't looking for a real solution. I was looking for my next diet. That magical one that would finally work. Well, a year later and I weigh more than last year. I never found that diet. I picked up the book again a few days ago, and read the entire thing. I was finally ready to find a solution to my issues with food. I really enjoyed the book. The part that I found interesting was how they accurately described all of the odd little things I do when I'm dieting. The all or nothing mentality I had, the binge eating etc..... Pretty much everything they described I could relate to. Everything they said about intuitive eating just made sense too. Ironically it just seemed intuitively obvious. I'm looking forward to learning all I can about intuitive eating. I figured the best way to do that is to talk to the people actually doing it. I look forward to sharing ideas with you all.

Posted July 29, 2011 · July 29, 2011

Tai, I like that, " weighing myself is a losing proposition. " Abby

Posted July 29, 2011 · July 29, 2011

Tai, I like that, " weighing myself is a losing proposition. " Abby

Posted July 29, 2011 · July 29, 2011

Tai, I like that, " weighing myself is a losing proposition. " Abby

Posted August 12, 2011 · August 12, 2011

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.

Posted January 18, 2012 · January 18, 2012

Welcome Vicki. Sounds like you are in the right place. Not sure if you have done

much reading about IE (un/non-dieting) so if you have any questions, so feel

free to ask. Wonderful that your husband is joining in on this with you. That

will give you 'in house' support and you 2 can batter ideas and concepts around

too. Don't sweat that it takes so long to get to this place, and will probably

take a while to re-claim your own eating choices. IE doesn't preach 'FAST!'

results, but results that you can live with and lasts beyond any diet promises.

Katcha

IEing since March 2007

>

> I'm Vicki, 55, and over the past 30 years I've lost over 100 lbs, kept

> it off for over 16 years, then over the course of the last 15 years I've

> struggled to maintain, then to re-lose 90 lbs I gained over the last 6

> years. Menopause played a big part in me gaining the weight plus a bad

> bike accident that made exercise next to impossible for months. The

> inactivity plus falling back into bad eating habits helped me to be 90

> lbs heavier than I wanted to be. It's been a huge struggle for me

> and I've yo-yo'd back and forth over what I felt was right for

> me. And I've felt so guilty because I felt I should be able to get

> the weight back off and keep it off. I'm actually only 10 lbs from

> my highest weight back in the 80's, so I've come full circle. I

> feel in some ways I've wasted the past 30 years trying to look a way

> I was never meant to look.

>

> Back all those years ago, I initially lost the 105 lbs because my son

> was told at school that he had an elephant for a mother. I never wanted

> to hurt or embarrass him like that again. So I fought for years to keep

> my weight down, and for 14-15 years I managed to do it with crazy diets

> or using diuretics and other things to keep the numbers low. But I was

> never satisfied and never at peace with my body. When menopause hit in

> 2005, that was all she wrote. Nothing works anymore and I feel it's time

> to just be as healthy as I can regardless of my size. My hubby is also a

> big man with a heart condition but he's on meds and the biggest issue

> for him was quitting smoking which he did and has been smoke free for 25

> months. We both agree it's time to just work towards getting more

> movement into our daily routine and eat as healthy as we can so our

> bodies will be at their best. But to stop worrying about a number on the

> scale. All that does is keep me upset. So that's what we're doing now.

>

Posted January 18, 2012 · January 18, 2012

Thanks for sharing your story, Vicki. It sounds very courageous to me.I am glad to hear that you are done torturing yourself and your body with crazy diets and are ready to make peace with all of that. That's amazing!

And by the way, the fact that your husband quit smoking! that's amazing! that's the #1 thing a person can do to improve his health (not to mention the health of his family members)... far more than losing weight!

so that's a HUGE victory right there!best,abby

Welcome Vicki. Sounds like you are in the right place. Not sure if you have done much reading about IE (un/non-dieting) so if you have any questions, so feel free to ask. Wonderful that your husband is joining in on this with you. That will give you 'in house' support and you 2 can batter ideas and concepts around too. Don't sweat that it takes so long to get to this place, and will probably take a while to re-claim your own eating choices. IE doesn't preach 'FAST!' results, but results that you can live with and lasts beyond any diet promises.