Really truly hungry?

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I'm having a rough week too, but I know why. I've had some very big stuff happening this week and it's hard. But on the bright side, instead of just eating whatever, I'm cooking for myself and eating that. And with every bite, I tell myself I'm taking care of me. I ate a little too much but not until I was feeling sick. But it doesn't help the emotional stuff, except to remind me I deserve better. Patti

Must be something in the air. I am also slipping backwards this week. I actually considered having "Everything has a choice" tattooed on my wrist so I'd see it all the time. LOL, that's pretty radical since I have no tattoos other than eyebrows and eyeliner. But I think I'll make a bracelet with lettered beads on it instead. But seriously I don't know what the problem has been. Sweets are compelling me and I am eating them without any hunger but I want them and can't stop thinking about about them. Then last night I found myself thinking I should eat that pie so it would stop tempting me. I did have a piece but I wasn't hungry at all and it was after I had eaten too much anyway. So I felt icky and I started feeling pretty guilty and like a failure. It's so upsetting to me. I'm not in control and I'm sure not in charge. I'm making crappy choices consciously. WTH?? Today I'm recommitted to IE and I keep imagining that tattoo. Sunny

Really truly hungry?

To: IntuitiveEating_Support

Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 10:43 AM

I'm phasing a hard time distinguishing between being truly hungry (and I definitely know what that feels like) and being what is perhaps only environmentally triggered hungry. How can I tell? When I am at home, I often am truly hungry by 9:00 in the morning, several hours after I've had breakfast, but when I'm at school (I'm a teacher) I will also feel hungry about then, which is when my planning period is. I go into the English office where my lunch is and where I have to work that hour, and I am moved to eat, so I do. But the one day a week when we' on a different schedule, and I don't have that planning period, I was really worried about how I was going to get a chance to eat something because surely I would be really hungry, I didn't get hungry, and that made me wonder whether or not my "hunger" is being triggered by being in that room.

I hadn't even realized there was such a thing as environmental triggers, but I have also been craving sweet things after lunch ( which I eat during my 25 minute lunch period, where again, I am not sure if I am truly hungry or whether it's being triggered by it being that time), when I am clearly not hungry, and that seems so obvious. I'm in a sweet things after lunch habit. I seem to be slipping right back into my bad habits. How do I become more aware and stop this now?

Tilley

[Guest guest]

Patti, Good for you and I am glad you are giving yourself credit.  I had a tough time with IE but I bought some new acrylic paints and started a new painting.  I have a place set up in my shed but it is way too hot.  So I set one up in my kitchen and covered the floor with a cheap plastic table cloth. When the weather cools down I will work in the shed because it is a better set up. Sandy

 

I'm having a rough week too, but I know why. I've had some very big stuff happening this week and it's hard. But on the bright side, instead of just eating whatever, I'm cooking for myself and eating that. And with every bite, I tell myself I'm taking care of me. I ate a little too much but not until I was feeling sick. 

But it doesn't help the emotional stuff, except to remind me I deserve better. Patti

 

 

Must be something in the air.  I am also slipping backwards this week.  I actually considered having " Everything has a choice " tattooed on my wrist so I'd see it all the time.  LOL, that's pretty radical since I have no tattoos other than eyebrows and eyeliner. But I think I'll make a bracelet with lettered beads on it instead.   But seriously I don't know what the problem has been.  Sweets are compelling me and I am eating them without any hunger but I want them and can't stop thinking about about them.  Then last night I found myself thinking I should eat that pie so it would stop tempting me.  I did have a piece but I wasn't hungry at all and it was after I had eaten too much anyway.  So I felt icky and I started feeling pretty guilty and like a failure. It's so upsetting to me. I'm not in control and I'm sure not in charge.  I'm making crappy choices consciously.  WTH??  Today I'm recommitted to IE and I keep imagining that tattoo.  Sunny

Really truly hungry?

To: IntuitiveEating_Support

Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 10:43 AM

 

I'm phasing a hard time distinguishing between being truly hungry (and I definitely know what that feels like) and being what is perhaps only environmentally triggered hungry. How can I tell? When I am at home, I often am truly hungry by 9:00 in the morning, several hours after I've had breakfast, but when I'm at school (I'm a teacher) I will also feel hungry about then, which is when my planning period is. I go into the English office where my lunch is and where I have to work that hour, and I am moved to eat, so I do. But the one day a week when we' on a different schedule, and I don't have that planning period, I was really worried about how I was going to get a chance to eat something because surely I would be really hungry, I didn't get hungry, and that made me wonder whether or not my " hunger " is being triggered by being in that room.

I hadn't even realized there was such a thing as environmental triggers, but I have also been craving sweet things after lunch ( which I eat during my 25 minute lunch period, where again, I am not sure if I am truly hungry or whether it's being triggered by it being that time), when I am clearly not hungry, and that seems so obvious. I'm in a sweet things after lunch habit. I seem to be slipping right back into my bad habits. How do I become more aware and stop this now?

Tilley