Re: Re: Progress

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Tai, Glad you felt satisfied.  Way to go! Sandy

 

I had an interesting and new experience tonight. I felt comfortable satisfied, even after I thought I would like to " eat more. "   But there was no more on the table, and at first I thought I might like to have dessert. But I didn't. I didn't because I realize that I was satisfied and did not want that really really full feeling. This is my first time that I did that, and I am soooo happy about it! Tai

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IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 1:54 PMSubject: Re: Progress

 

Hi, Jane. Thanks for sharing your experience and progress - and thanks for posting a new message. I sometimes get lost when we are talking about one topic and the " subject line " still reads something that was " discussed " days ago.

I'm not saying I will never eat " comfort " (HA) foods again, but I know that when I " crave " them (and I am not truly hungry), I am really looking for comfort on some other level. I could go on and on, but I know each of us has our experience with this. I prefer to talk about what I'm doing that feels good today instead of my old experiences that felt AWFUL.

Waiting for the rumble,

, IE since 7/2011

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> I really had a major " aha " moment - was it just yesterday? - when I realized that when I am truly hungry, I want " real " food, not treats. It was an eye-opener on how I really can trust my body to lead me toward better health. I found myself watching myself to see if it could really be true. Sure enough, when I got hungry again, I had NO interest in the fantastically yummy cookies in the cabinet or the ice cream in the freezer. What I wanted was a piece of seed bread with spicy cheese broiled on it, a few pieces of fake crab meat, and a hard-boiled egg dipped in a little sauce (Miracle Whip/mustard/pickle relish). My husband had grabbed Pop-Tarts and got envious and asked for tastes of mine. In the past, when I would grab those sorts of foods, I was " trying to be good " as opposed to eating what I wanted.

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> And in thinking back over the last couple of weeks, I saw that when I did crave sweets, they were ones which contained significant nutritional value, such as whole wheat/seed bread topped with jam or apple strudel, as opposed to a rich chocolate cake or candy bar. It was when I decided to eat at the earliest signs of hunger approaching that I tended to choose ice cream or cookies. Very interesting.

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> Yet more proof that my body was wonderfully designed and I can trust it.

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> Jane

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