Re: Re: Giving In To My Cravings

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I got my copy mailed to me for under $5 from half.com -- very practical book, spot on. What caught me hardest was their observation that some people (like me!) resent having to re-parent themselves.

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 4:15 PMSubject: Re: Giving In To My Cravings

Legalizing is a term used by Jane Hirschmann & Carol Munter in their book Overcoming Overeating. Here are a few selected passages from their book to give you an idea of what this is all about - "Compulsive eaters assume that food is their problem. Our contention is that food is NOT the problem. Compulsive eaters use food for anxiety rather than for the purpose of physiological hunger. Misuse of food cannot be corrected until compulsive eaters make peace with food itself. We call this process 'legalizing'.""Legalizing food means, quite simply, that you allow yourself to have the foods you want - nothing if forbidden. Binging and dieting are simply two sides of the same coin. Legalizing foods - removing all the taboos, restrictions, and external controls with regrd to your eating - is the way out of the diet/binge cycle.""The way to demonstrate to yourself that there are no foods on your restricted list is to make sure that

all the foods you like are available and abundant."This book is one that has been around for many years and is very likely to be at your library, used book store or cheap online (I got my copy 'free' via PaperbackSwap.com). I found it to be easy to read with lots of good information and suggestions to follow. KatchaIEing since March 2007PS - Tribole & Elyse Resch also cover this process in their Intuitive Eating book in Principle #3 - Make Peace with Food. Their process is slightly different, but with basically the same results. You may want to read both to see which one 'suits' you best :-)>> I was really touched by what you wrote Mimi regarding one judging

oneself for eating sugary foods. And then realizing I have to legalize these foods so I no longer feel guilty for eating them. What you said about only then will they lose their magical ability to pull you toward them and make you feel bad about yourself….wow.> > Could someone please post regarding how exactly one "legalizes" foods besides just adding them back into one's daily food consumption? I am in the beginning stages of bringing foods back into my eating that were previously restricted. I'm very curious as to the process.> > Thanks!> > Kerry C.>

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I got my copy mailed to me for under $5 from half.com -- very practical book, spot on. What caught me hardest was their observation that some people (like me!) resent having to re-parent themselves.

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 4:15 PMSubject: Re: Giving In To My Cravings

Legalizing is a term used by Jane Hirschmann & Carol Munter in their book Overcoming Overeating. Here are a few selected passages from their book to give you an idea of what this is all about - "Compulsive eaters assume that food is their problem. Our contention is that food is NOT the problem. Compulsive eaters use food for anxiety rather than for the purpose of physiological hunger. Misuse of food cannot be corrected until compulsive eaters make peace with food itself. We call this process 'legalizing'.""Legalizing food means, quite simply, that you allow yourself to have the foods you want - nothing if forbidden. Binging and dieting are simply two sides of the same coin. Legalizing foods - removing all the taboos, restrictions, and external controls with regrd to your eating - is the way out of the diet/binge cycle.""The way to demonstrate to yourself that there are no foods on your restricted list is to make sure that

all the foods you like are available and abundant."This book is one that has been around for many years and is very likely to be at your library, used book store or cheap online (I got my copy 'free' via PaperbackSwap.com). I found it to be easy to read with lots of good information and suggestions to follow. KatchaIEing since March 2007PS - Tribole & Elyse Resch also cover this process in their Intuitive Eating book in Principle #3 - Make Peace with Food. Their process is slightly different, but with basically the same results. You may want to read both to see which one 'suits' you best :-)>> I was really touched by what you wrote Mimi regarding one judging

oneself for eating sugary foods. And then realizing I have to legalize these foods so I no longer feel guilty for eating them. What you said about only then will they lose their magical ability to pull you toward them and make you feel bad about yourself….wow.> > Could someone please post regarding how exactly one "legalizes" foods besides just adding them back into one's daily food consumption? I am in the beginning stages of bringing foods back into my eating that were previously restricted. I'm very curious as to the process.> > Thanks!> > Kerry C.>

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Katcha, I got my copy (as well as the Intuitive Eating book and several other IE books) on paperbackswap.com, too. Love that site! And yes, I'll bet one's local library would have many of these available. Worth reading a bunch of different approaches in my opinion. Different things in different books click with me and I can craft my own approach with the bits and pieces that are most salient for my life.

Mimi

Subject: Re: Giving In To My CravingsTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 4:15 PM

Legalizing is a term used by Jane Hirschmann & Carol Munter in their book Overcoming Overeating. Here are a few selected passages from their book to give you an idea of what this is all about - "Compulsive eaters assume that food is their problem. Our contention is that food is NOT the problem. Compulsive eaters use food for anxiety rather than for the purpose of physiological hunger. Misuse of food cannot be corrected until compulsive eaters make peace with food itself. We call this process 'legalizing'.""Legalizing food means, quite simply, that you allow yourself to have the foods you want - nothing if forbidden. Binging and dieting are simply two sides of the same coin. Legalizing foods - removing all the taboos, restrictions, and external controls with regrd to your eating - is the way out of the diet/binge cycle.""The way to demonstrate to yourself that there are no foods on your restricted list is to make sure that

all the foods you like are available and abundant."This book is one that has been around for many years and is very likely to be at your library, used book store or cheap online (I got my copy 'free' via PaperbackSwap.com). I found it to be easy to read with lots of good information and suggestions to follow. KatchaIEing since March 2007PS - Tribole & Elyse Resch also cover this process in their Intuitive Eating book in Principle #3 - Make Peace with Food. Their process is slightly different, but with basically the same results. You may want to read both to see which one 'suits' you best :-)