Re: Final message... .

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I don't know if this will help you or not, but I categorize what I feel when I find myself in an urgent grazing mood as anxiety, and it helps me (when I remember!) to sit and just jot down what was happening before, what I did during the last few hours, what I was reading or listening to or watching on TV or who I saw and what we talked about, just notes, but that is usually enough to give me a hint what I'm anxious about -- and I can actually feel my body relaxing, like some hard spot is melting, as I realize what triggered the anxiety and I'm not hungry anymore.

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:44 PMSubject: Re: Final message... .

This is a new revelation to me - but I'm realizing that when I suddenly feel "fat" it is an emotional/body response to something happening that I'm not slowing down and dealing with/confronting. I know that I eat certain foods at those times, but I'm realizing that it isn't the foods that are making me feel fat and bloated, it's the emotions that I'm ignoring. I don't do well at stepping back and grounding when stresses hit - I typically eat my way through them. Then the fat police jump in so that rather than attend to what's going on, I'm in a battle with the old self blame, fat-hating stuff. That's a confusing answer probably - but I realize that when my stomach hurts (from eating) it isn't the eating - it's the emotions behind the eating that's causing the hurt. Make sense? > >> > I just weighed myself. I'm sure the scale was sitting wrong but I'm not going to risk wiggling it around to come up with a worse number. Since I weighed last time, at an "all time high",

I've lost 22 pounds. Now, how can that be? I feel like my weight has doubled. My body drives me nuts. End of rant. > > > > Thanks for being here - there - wherever you are.> > > > Sandarah> >>

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it makes perfect sense as someone who has done that many, many times. One thing

that helps me is stopping and asking myself, " What do I need right now that I'm

not getting? "

Then I listen for the answer. Based on the answer I see if I can satisfy that

need with something other than food. Sometimes it's nurturing so I call a

friend. Sometimes its self-care so I take a bath with candles. Sometimes it's

love so I ask for it from those around me.

That helps. When I do it.

> > >

> > > I just weighed myself. I'm sure the scale was sitting wrong but I'm not

going to risk wiggling it around to come up with a worse number. Since I

weighed last time, at an " all time high " , I've lost 22 pounds. Now, how can

that be? I feel like my weight has doubled. My body drives me nuts. End of

rant.

> > >

> > > Thanks for being here - there - wherever you are.

> > >

> > > Sandarah

> > >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

it makes perfect sense as someone who has done that many, many times. One thing

that helps me is stopping and asking myself, " What do I need right now that I'm

not getting? "

Then I listen for the answer. Based on the answer I see if I can satisfy that

need with something other than food. Sometimes it's nurturing so I call a

friend. Sometimes its self-care so I take a bath with candles. Sometimes it's

love so I ask for it from those around me.

That helps. When I do it.

> > >

> > > I just weighed myself. I'm sure the scale was sitting wrong but I'm not

going to risk wiggling it around to come up with a worse number. Since I

weighed last time, at an " all time high " , I've lost 22 pounds. Now, how can

that be? I feel like my weight has doubled. My body drives me nuts. End of

rant.

> > >

> > > Thanks for being here - there - wherever you are.

> > >

> > > Sandarah

> > >

> >

>