Re: Re: I'm a dietitian just starting to use IE with my patients/clients - any tips?

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Jain- thank you for saying IE is as much an encounter with ourselves as it is about how we interact with food.. so true...and I am so re-learning about all my different emotions as I follow this path. I guess I have been numbing my emotions for a while even if I was eating healthy food....still doesn't matter....still I was trying to escape life with thinking about and eating food. rach

Welcome Z! So great to find a dietitian in our group. I really wish there was a way to categorize posts so that members could re 'back' over topics and discussions to gleam tidbits already shared. Alas Yahoo, like most other newsgroup services, only build posts on top of each other soon burying the good in the process. There are some excellent Files stored at the group site which may have some good ideas for you. For sure the Book List could be a useful reference for you and your clients too.

What has helped me seems to serve others too are -

1) be gentle with yourself - beating up or making 'wrong' hasn't worked and is disrespectful (of your body) too.

2) start with ONE IE practice. You don't eat a 'feast' in one bite ;-)

3) Its not about weight, its about WAIT - for hunger, for taste and for adjustment (not forcing weight off)

4) Gift yourself time. It took years to develop into what you are now, its better to work on positive changes than repeat the error of dieting that causes excessive re-gain.

5) loving yourself as you are, respects your body NOW and encourages positive changes

IE is as much an encounter with ourselves as it is about how we interact with food.

BEST to you, Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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> Hi all,

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> I'm a dietitian, and I've recently been getting up to speed with IE, mindful eating and other methods of helping patients/clients with their relationship with food.

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> IE really rings home with me as I used to (unconsciously) be a very intuitive eater and I think becoming a dietitian and breaking down food into nutrients, dealing with so many conflicting messages about food and nutrition, weight and weight loss, etc, made me start to trust the external messages more than the internal. IE is definitely helping me get back to listening to my own body - and I've been lurking on this forum for a while, finding a lot of the discussions really useful.

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> As I'm starting to use this approach more with my patients/clients, I'm finding it very different to other approaches I might have used in the past, but hugely satisfying!

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> For all of you that have received help with IE from doctors, dietitians, and other counsellors - I wondered whether you had any tips for me - things that your professionals have said or done that have really helped, and also anything that really hasn't.

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> All the best,

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> Z

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