Re: Intro/ new member!

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Hi , welcome. I must confess I was chuckling at your post because I was

just telling a friend yesterday about the initial stages of IE. I felt totally

like a fish out of water and was grasping for some concept, some framework to

hang my hat on. It was unsettling to suddenly have no rules and no sense of, now

what?

I think I my process went something like this: Legalize; start to recognize the

diet rebel whose only eating M & M's; recognize the diet police hiding in the

closet ready to illegalize at any moment; relax the diet police; diet rebel

starts to relax; begin slowly the negotiate with both around choosing based on

body hunger/need.

It was a weird process initially, seems very counter-intuitive and then a

framework begins to form in the mind and then you're off and running with IE.

Hope this helps.

Sandarah IE since 8/11

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> Hi my name is Sara and a friend suggested Intuitive Eating as I was about to

> start another " diet " (this one was eating super healthy, but still..) I did

> try it for a few days like usual, though I did this one for way less time

> than the others.. my heart is no longer in diets apparently.. Looking back,

> I've been dieting on and off for at least 10 years, though I am 41 now and

> was chubby as a 9 year old.. so I think the pressure has always been there..

> and I remember gorging on french bread and butter at restaurants as a child

> and knowing it was " bad " .. But then as a 21 year old having a baby, I didn't

> think at all about my weight, and looking at pictures I was beautiful and

> thin.. with no obsessing about it!!! So I know/ at least hope I can get back

> there.. I did read Geneen Roth's books many years ago and tried to do what

> she suggested.. It did really strike me as true and for me, but I couldn't

> manage to stick with it.. I didn't really understand or have the courage or

> something.. I'm not sure.. Now that I have read IE I think that the same

> information presented in different ways may help to just have a better

> outline/steps or something.. I find that the IE book is still hard for me to

> figure out in terms of what to really do in what order.. I just feel like I

> need some guidance, so I sought out and found this group, which I am excited

> to be part of..! Someone mentioned the Eat What You Love book so I

> downloaded that in hopes that the steps might be more clear.. I know it just

> might be me wanting rules to follow, but I think in part I need a format

> that speaks to what I'm going through.. I got the IE book a few weeks ago,

> and am trying to give myself unconditional permission to eat whatever I

> want, and am eating a lot of sweets.. I have occasional breakthrough

> feelings and understandings about myself, but am also eating unconsciously a

> lot and that is where I got stuck last time, just eating a lot of cookie

> dough and moving on to other sweets but feeling like no progress being

> made.. I didn't put that perfectly, cause the whole thing is surprisingly

> foggy for me.. even now.. I am a smart person, and it is so frustrating that

> this is such a struggle and I am so frightened.. But I am truly determined

> to do it this time.. I have a lot of faith in myself and am so done with

> diets.. Anyways.. thanks for being here!!!!

> Sara

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