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Hi! I'm new to Intuitive Eating and new to this group (any group for that matter) so thought I would introduce myself. A friend's dietician recommended the book Intuitive Eating to her and she then recommended it to me. I'm on Chapter 9 and see myself all over this book.

A little back ground, when I was growing up I never had to worry about dieting or what I ate but I still had a bad body image. I was never thin enough...looking back, I know that I was very thin. As I became an adult, I was also doing the latest diet trend not because I needed to but because of the negative body image. Over the last 26 years, I have yo-yo dieted and lost and gained weight to get to be 60 lbs overweight.

I am to the point now that I have so many diets/eating plans floating in my head that I didn't know what to follow or where to go from here. Then I started reading Intuitive Eating. I am where all those people in the book started out. There are so many things in the book that I have said or done or felt. I actually remember telling my friend not too long ago that I eat just to eat and that I'm not even sure I know what "hungry" feels like. I know this is the lifestyle that I want to live. I want a healty relationship with my body and the food I eat.

I'm hoping between the book and the support group, I'm able to do that...live this lifestyle and not restrict myself or badger myself with guilty feelings about what I should, must, ought, need to, supposed to or have to do.

Thanks for allowing me to be part of this group.