Re: Re: No resolutions here...

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Hear hear. I would also like to act more on my intuition this year. In everything, not just food. I feel that IE has really opened up a whole new world for being and doing what I like, want, and need, and that has been such a difference from the prescriptive way I was used to living.

Mimi

Subject: Re: No resolutions here...To: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Monday, January 2, 2012, 11:50 AM

This forum has been a great help on my IE journey this winter. I just returned from visiting friends and had to eat more restaurant food. I was also surrounded by people with dieting mentality. I was able to hold my own! And it was pretty easy to hear my body say: Enough food if I want to feel good for the next few hours! I am really noticing how I can anticipate the consequences of overeating and make the better choice most of the time now. Few weeks ago, that wasn't the case. Somebody mentioned how T-day, Xmas and New Year celebrations are all "last supper mentality." That makes so much sense to me! I suppose historically that was really important to eat as much as possible before the food spoiled and the supplies got low during the long winter months. How strange to live the unexamined cultural story of the centuries past. It's like building cars that are the width of the roman chariot because of 1000 years of doing it that way! I

have one resolution this year. It is to PLAY more. I would like to learn to play and do things just because I enjoy it. No goals or productivity involved. I made a snowwoman the other day and I loved the making of it just because I enjoyed it. It was just three balls on top of each other but there was something in the movement and being out of breath that was freeing and just lovely. More and more, I am sensitive to my intuition. Trusting MYSELF instead of what I think I "should" do. I am not making myself wrong for the first time. The choices I am making are my choices and they may be socially frown upon but they are my choices and I approve of them for the first time instead of feeling shame or guilt. I like what I like. I don't have to understand why and how. Looking forward to having this forum along my journey this year. Vera

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Tilley wrote:

"I've been eating outside of my comfort zone the past couple of days, and one thing that showed me was that you don't "get it" once and for all, but you have to get it over and over again, until hopefully it becomes more of a habit to be truly honoring your body."

YES! I totally get that. There is no one "clicking" moment where you get everything and that's that. You keep getting it and losing it and getting it again. But each time you get it again, the principles are somewhat re-enforced/stronger until it becomes somewhat ingrained. I am at a point where things are becoming more habitual and I am not struggling as much. But I do understand that it's not linear, which also makes me feel better.

Mimi