Re: I am Disappointed

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Such a good point that the victory is in listening to your emotions and body. In the tiny victories I am experiencing in that area, they feel like very satisfying victories, way more satisfying that "not eating" ever does.

LOL. I can relate, too. It's like the, "I've blown it, so why not go hog wild" syndrome. On a related note, last night I had a conversation with a family member that I was miffed at. I had already eaten dinner and was not at all hungry before the conversation. After the conversation, I felt immediate hunger. It was weird. The hunger was obviously triggered by not wanting to deal with the family situation, but it wasn't completely non-physical. When I acknowledged feeling stressed and told myself it was OK to feel angry and hurt, I relaxed. Then I checked in with my hunger and it was still there, although not as strong. It actually was a bit of physical hunger -- the kind where you could eat or not. So I told myself that of course it was OK to eat if I felt like it. I thought about it a bit and then realized I didn't want to bother fixing something, so I

didn't. Now the trick is to savor the victory of listening to my emotions and body, NOT the "victory" of not eating, which was only incidental.

Mimi

Subject: Re: I am DisappointedTo: "IntuitiveEating_Support " <IntuitiveEating_Support >Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 7:59 PM

, this struck me as funny, though I'm not laughing at you but at me (because it has happened to me) -- especially "making rules about rules"! It's hard, it's counterintuitive, even illogical, but, yeah, I've certainly experienced a desire to eat triggered by realizing I'd eaten earlier and forgot it. Probably we've all shared this experience or one very like it