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Hi, Lynne,

Welcome to our group! I know you'll find as much support and encouragement here as I have. Be gentle with yourself--this society teaches us just the opposite: to be stern and unforgiving of ourselves if we have failed in the past, and all of us dieters (or at least 99% of us) have failed over and over again. Now's the time for all of us to be gentle on ourselves, because we're going against the grain by giving up on diets. Take it easy. Take it slooooow. I'm realizing that in addition to developing a healthy relationship with food, I'm going to have to learn how to develop some coping skills I've never learned. I'm taking those on one by one.

Take care--I look forward to hearing from you how it's going.

All best,

Laurie

Lynne wrote:

>>>Hello,

Thank you for letting me join your group. I have spent most of my life significantly over weight. I first learned about what was called "Humming" in the 70's. My best friend lost 80 pounds following this plan. It was basically, eat what ever you want when ever you want and stop when you are satisfied. We both realized that diets don't work. For many reasons I did not loose weight even though I was the one who introduced this philosphy to her. While we were in nursing school, she gained back the 80 pounds and I just gained more weight. Once she gained the weight back we were back on the diet road without success.

I am a compulsive emotional overeater. I have not wanted to deal with what bothers me. It could be anything. I have learned to use food to take care of my life. My excuses need to be gone. My health is suffering and I know that the only way for me to be sucessful is to follow the intuitive eating plan.

Thanks for being there,

Lynne<<<