Re: First steps

[Guest guest]

Welcome Katrina! I can identify with your desire to have 'real meals'. Making

and sharing a sit down dinner with my dear hubby is a daily practice that we

both enjoy and have no desire to give up either. The one thing that made that

easier for me was that we are retired and can eat whenever we want, not by 'the

clock'. However I will share that I also learned to 'time' my hunger a bit so

that I (we if possible) can be hungry at our dinner time. I would suggest that

you don't force such a make-break point (to meal or not to meal) onto your IE

journey but rather to simply work with whatever IE suggestion (hunger/full

sensations, peace with food, dumping diet mentality etc.) you want to play with

first. IE is more about baby steps than huge 'success!(es)' which often

evaporate away anyway. Plans are for diets! Enjoyment of eating is what IE

promotes.

BEST to you, Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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> Hi, I am Katrina and I am undergoing a second real journey with intuitive

eating. The thing is, I have this real desire to eat and live in a more European

way by enjoying slow cooked food, in season and local, with family and friends.

I want to eat whatever I want but only at traditional meal times. This also

makes it so much easier to enjoy my family and friends by actually being hungry

at restaurant with them. I have always had a problem eating real and balanced

meals and instead try to make up for all the snacking I do though out the day so

it seems to me that a three meal a day plan would be ideal and healing for me.

However, in a lot of IE books I read, they tell you to just fill up to not

hungry and to eat more like 5 or 6 times a day. What are your thoughts on this?

How do meals work for you?

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> Katrina

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[Guest guest]

Hi Katrina.  I think the IE way is to honor your own path and we each have our own.  You find what works for you.  Also in IE a lot of it is to just notice your hunger levels.  IE is not a set of rules and it is a little hard to get away from that when we have been on a dieting path for a long time.  I found it harder without rules actually but that is EXternal and IE is focused on INternal cues. It takes a while.  Looking forward to hearing from you again.  Sandy

 

Hi, I am Katrina and I am undergoing a second real journey with intuitive eating. The thing is, I have this real desire to eat and live in a more European way by enjoying slow cooked food, in season and local, with family and friends. I want to eat whatever I want but only at traditional meal times. This also makes it so much easier to enjoy my family and friends by actually being hungry at restaurant with them. I have always had a problem eating real and balanced meals and instead try to make up for all the snacking I do though out the day so it seems to me that a three meal a day plan would be ideal and healing for me. However, in a lot of IE books I read, they tell you to just fill up to not hungry and to eat more like 5 or 6 times a day. What are your thoughts on this? How do meals work for you?

Katrina