eating when hungry then some

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Hi everybody. The interesting part about eating when hungry and stopping when full is that I'm stopping when really full (meaning I can't eat another bite), but then I want to eat soon thereafter, especially at night. Last night we went out with friends to eat, I ate what I wanted and noticed that I did not force myself to eat more than that, leaving quite a bit of the food on my plate. But when I got back to the motel room I ate more because I could eat again and the food was something I wanted. 1/2 doughnut and pistachios. I love the pistachios, but realize that I want something sweet, not salty and crunchy before I go to bed, so I'm going to plan for that. I wish I did not eat the extra food after the meal. I did try to speak gently to myself about it and I intend to do better internal self-talk in the future.

TaiTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:58 AMSubject: Re: Introducing myself

Hi Marilyn,

Glad you introduced yourself. I'm new to IE as well and have been doing a ton of reading. I went to Walmart yesterday as well and brought home Oreos, ice cream, candy bars, etc! I looked in my cart at all I had and just had to laugh! It will be an interesting week! LIke you, I'm concentrating on eating when hungry and having what I want and trying to listen for my full signal (having a hard time w/ that one so far).

Glad to have you here!

Barb

Subject: Introducing myselfTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Sunday, July 31, 2011, 11:42 AM

I joined your group about a week ago and have been reading, reading, reading ever since. I am about 1/2 way thru the IE book by the two nutritionists and thought since I am now taking baby steps in the process I should jump in to the group with two feet and introduce myself. My name is Marilyn. I am a middle aged housewife and mother who has been attempting to control my weight my whole life. I had weight loss surgery 10 years ago and had success with getting my excess weight off; however, the surgery does NOT deal with your head and I have been doing some version of diet or diet rebellion to maintain my weightloss ever since. I am tired of my first thought in the morning being about food. I am tired of feeling guilty for eating all those formerly forbidden foods after "lights out", so hubby and kids would not witness my out of control eating. I love the idea of giving myself permission to eat all my favorite foods, as I love to cook and

bake but in the past would either avoid it or give it all away....then scrounge in the kitchen for some "second best" substitute and eat WAY MORE than if I just allowed myself what I really wanted in the first place. Right now I am focusing on feeling hunger and satisfaction and bringing what I used to think of as "trigger foods" into the house and allowing myself to eat them. As a matter of fact, I just got back from Walmart where I bought my favorite cookie; I am putting them in a special cookie jar (antique, it used to be in my grandma's house when I was a girl) and looking forward to seeing how I handle them this week. Just reading your posts this week has helped me...helped me feel ok with giving up exercise for a bit (I was using it as justification for eating more and/or using it to "offset" what I considered being bad with my eating) and having a blueberry scone from Starbucks for lunch if I wanted one. Oh, and while I haven't

given up the scale I have scaled back on it's usage....I was a daily weigher; now, once a week. Maybe eventually I will give it up. Marilyn