Guest guest Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Welcome Rhonda! You'll get lots of support here! Jackie Siciliano~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~I'm somewhere between the Port of Indecisionand Southwest of Disorder~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~ ----- Original Message ----- From: Rhoda Jayne Hi,My name is Rhoda & I found your group last night. I did a google search for the South Beach Diet because I've heard my bil mention that he wanted to try it. I went to the official website last night & saw the online center members. Is anyone a member of the online site? It sounds like a good motivator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Welcome Rhonda! You'll get lots of support here! Jackie Siciliano~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~I'm somewhere between the Port of Indecisionand Southwest of Disorder~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~ ----- Original Message ----- From: Rhoda Jayne Hi,My name is Rhoda & I found your group last night. I did a google search for the South Beach Diet because I've heard my bil mention that he wanted to try it. I went to the official website last night & saw the online center members. Is anyone a member of the online site? It sounds like a good motivator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 Hi Sharon, I want to say hi and I'm glad you found this support. Laurie To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Sun, February 7, 2010 9:31:57 PMSubject: Intro Hi I'm Sharon from Aussieland.. I'm a happily married homemaker (we are becoming a rare breed). I enjoy the quiet life, living in a small beach community. Love to get up early and walk in the quiet with Hubby. He had a bypass in September last year and restarted back at work Wednesday week ago. All go well so far.I've been on the diet merry-go-round for decades since about when I was 18 (oops giving my age away here). I lost 46 pounds (doing it rather well I may add) in 2008-09, but with Hubby's bypass my self-discipline went out the window and I'm still waiting for it to come back. The truth is I've had enough. Food wants to rule me and squash me and break me. I hate feeling like it controls me instead of the other way round. But I don't want to control it, I just want to live at peace with food and enjoy it without all the baggage that goes with guilt, frustration and feeling lousy when you overeat and let it all get the better of you.Time for a new start.Sharon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 Hi Sharon, I want to say hi and I'm glad you found this support. Laurie To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Sun, February 7, 2010 9:31:57 PMSubject: Intro Hi I'm Sharon from Aussieland.. I'm a happily married homemaker (we are becoming a rare breed). I enjoy the quiet life, living in a small beach community. Love to get up early and walk in the quiet with Hubby. He had a bypass in September last year and restarted back at work Wednesday week ago. All go well so far.I've been on the diet merry-go-round for decades since about when I was 18 (oops giving my age away here). I lost 46 pounds (doing it rather well I may add) in 2008-09, but with Hubby's bypass my self-discipline went out the window and I'm still waiting for it to come back. The truth is I've had enough. Food wants to rule me and squash me and break me. I hate feeling like it controls me instead of the other way round. But I don't want to control it, I just want to live at peace with food and enjoy it without all the baggage that goes with guilt, frustration and feeling lousy when you overeat and let it all get the better of you.Time for a new start.Sharon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Sharon, hello and welcome! Think you'll find a lot of support and encouragement here! My husband and I have had the pleasure of visiting Oz twice. Wonderful country with wonderful people! All the best, Jeanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Hello Sharon! Thanks for sharing your story. Be gentle on yourself. Just because you may have regained the weight doesn't mean you " lost your self-discipline. " For emotional eaters, growth is not about self-discipline, it is about learning to grow and handling your emotions without using food as much. You are not any less of a motivated person. I like how you said that you don't want to control food, but you want to be at peace with it. In my experience, the gateway to achieving that is to be at peace with my emotions and my environment. Your husband;s surgery sounds like an incredibly emotional event. No wonder you turned to food! So many people would! Don't beat yourself up . You will learn other ways to deal with your feeling, cause that is what the food thing is all about. In our culture, it is incredibly easy to beat ourselves up for not comforming to society's ideal of what a female body should look like. The media is designed to make us feel shamed if we are not " The perfect size 6 (or whatever size it is, I really don't pay attention!). This makes accepting our relationship with food harder. My suggestion is to try and surround yourself with people who do not care what you body looks like and to do activities that fullfill you regardless of what your body size is. That helps me. I still struggle with overeating and still feel ashamed sometimes but those are just suggestions for keeping myself out of despair. Keep your chin up! > > Hi I'm Sharon from Aussieland. I'm a happily married homemaker (we are becoming a rare breed). I enjoy the quiet life, living in a small beach community. Love to get up early and walk in the quiet with Hubby. He had a bypass in September last year and restarted back at work Wednesday week ago. All go well so far. > > I've been on the diet merry-go-round for decades since about when I was 18 (oops giving my age away here). I lost 46 pounds (doing it rather well I may add) in 2008-09, but with Hubby's bypass my self-discipline went out the window and I'm still waiting for it to come back. > > The truth is I've had enough. Food wants to rule me and squash me and break me. I hate feeling like it controls me instead of the other way round. But I don't want to control it, I just want to live at peace with food and enjoy it without all the baggage that goes with guilt, frustration and feeling lousy when you overeat and let it all get the better of you. > > Time for a new start. > > Sharon > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Hello Sharon! Thanks for sharing your story. Be gentle on yourself. Just because you may have regained the weight doesn't mean you " lost your self-discipline. " For emotional eaters, growth is not about self-discipline, it is about learning to grow and handling your emotions without using food as much. You are not any less of a motivated person. I like how you said that you don't want to control food, but you want to be at peace with it. In my experience, the gateway to achieving that is to be at peace with my emotions and my environment. Your husband;s surgery sounds like an incredibly emotional event. No wonder you turned to food! So many people would! Don't beat yourself up . You will learn other ways to deal with your feeling, cause that is what the food thing is all about. In our culture, it is incredibly easy to beat ourselves up for not comforming to society's ideal of what a female body should look like. The media is designed to make us feel shamed if we are not " The perfect size 6 (or whatever size it is, I really don't pay attention!). This makes accepting our relationship with food harder. My suggestion is to try and surround yourself with people who do not care what you body looks like and to do activities that fullfill you regardless of what your body size is. That helps me. I still struggle with overeating and still feel ashamed sometimes but those are just suggestions for keeping myself out of despair. Keep your chin up! > > Hi I'm Sharon from Aussieland. I'm a happily married homemaker (we are becoming a rare breed). I enjoy the quiet life, living in a small beach community. Love to get up early and walk in the quiet with Hubby. He had a bypass in September last year and restarted back at work Wednesday week ago. All go well so far. > > I've been on the diet merry-go-round for decades since about when I was 18 (oops giving my age away here). I lost 46 pounds (doing it rather well I may add) in 2008-09, but with Hubby's bypass my self-discipline went out the window and I'm still waiting for it to come back. > > The truth is I've had enough. Food wants to rule me and squash me and break me. I hate feeling like it controls me instead of the other way round. But I don't want to control it, I just want to live at peace with food and enjoy it without all the baggage that goes with guilt, frustration and feeling lousy when you overeat and let it all get the better of you. > > Time for a new start. > > Sharon > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Hello Sharon! Thanks for sharing your story. Be gentle on yourself. Just because you may have regained the weight doesn't mean you " lost your self-discipline. " For emotional eaters, growth is not about self-discipline, it is about learning to grow and handling your emotions without using food as much. You are not any less of a motivated person. I like how you said that you don't want to control food, but you want to be at peace with it. In my experience, the gateway to achieving that is to be at peace with my emotions and my environment. Your husband;s surgery sounds like an incredibly emotional event. No wonder you turned to food! So many people would! Don't beat yourself up . You will learn other ways to deal with your feeling, cause that is what the food thing is all about. In our culture, it is incredibly easy to beat ourselves up for not comforming to society's ideal of what a female body should look like. The media is designed to make us feel shamed if we are not " The perfect size 6 (or whatever size it is, I really don't pay attention!). This makes accepting our relationship with food harder. My suggestion is to try and surround yourself with people who do not care what you body looks like and to do activities that fullfill you regardless of what your body size is. That helps me. I still struggle with overeating and still feel ashamed sometimes but those are just suggestions for keeping myself out of despair. Keep your chin up! > > Hi I'm Sharon from Aussieland. I'm a happily married homemaker (we are becoming a rare breed). I enjoy the quiet life, living in a small beach community. Love to get up early and walk in the quiet with Hubby. He had a bypass in September last year and restarted back at work Wednesday week ago. All go well so far. > > I've been on the diet merry-go-round for decades since about when I was 18 (oops giving my age away here). I lost 46 pounds (doing it rather well I may add) in 2008-09, but with Hubby's bypass my self-discipline went out the window and I'm still waiting for it to come back. > > The truth is I've had enough. Food wants to rule me and squash me and break me. I hate feeling like it controls me instead of the other way round. But I don't want to control it, I just want to live at peace with food and enjoy it without all the baggage that goes with guilt, frustration and feeling lousy when you overeat and let it all get the better of you. > > Time for a new start. > > Sharon > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Hi Sharon, Welcome. I'm also a homemaker (also mom) and feel much as you do about food. I hope you get the support you're looking for here! Sohni sharoncockingau wrote: Hi I'm Sharon from Aussieland. I'm a happily married homemaker (we are becoming a rare breed). I enjoy the quiet life, living in a small beach community. Love to get up early and walk in the quiet with Hubby. He had a bypass in September last year and restarted back at work Wednesday week ago. All go well so far. I've been on the diet merry-go-round for decades since about when I was 18 (oops giving my age away here). I lost 46 pounds (doing it rather well I may add) in 2008-09, but with Hubby's bypass my self-discipline went out the window and I'm still waiting for it to come back. The truth is I've had enough. Food wants to rule me and squash me and break me. I hate feeling like it controls me instead of the other way round. But I don't want to control it, I just want to live at peace with food and enjoy it without all the baggage that goes with guilt, frustration and feeling lousy when you overeat and let it all get the better of you. Time for a new start. Sharon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Hi Sharon, Welcome. I'm also a homemaker (also mom) and feel much as you do about food. I hope you get the support you're looking for here! Sohni sharoncockingau wrote: Hi I'm Sharon from Aussieland. I'm a happily married homemaker (we are becoming a rare breed). I enjoy the quiet life, living in a small beach community. Love to get up early and walk in the quiet with Hubby. He had a bypass in September last year and restarted back at work Wednesday week ago. All go well so far. I've been on the diet merry-go-round for decades since about when I was 18 (oops giving my age away here). I lost 46 pounds (doing it rather well I may add) in 2008-09, but with Hubby's bypass my self-discipline went out the window and I'm still waiting for it to come back. The truth is I've had enough. Food wants to rule me and squash me and break me. I hate feeling like it controls me instead of the other way round. But I don't want to control it, I just want to live at peace with food and enjoy it without all the baggage that goes with guilt, frustration and feeling lousy when you overeat and let it all get the better of you. Time for a new start. Sharon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Hi Sharon, Welcome. I'm also a homemaker (also mom) and feel much as you do about food. I hope you get the support you're looking for here! Sohni sharoncockingau wrote: Hi I'm Sharon from Aussieland. I'm a happily married homemaker (we are becoming a rare breed). I enjoy the quiet life, living in a small beach community. Love to get up early and walk in the quiet with Hubby. He had a bypass in September last year and restarted back at work Wednesday week ago. All go well so far. I've been on the diet merry-go-round for decades since about when I was 18 (oops giving my age away here). I lost 46 pounds (doing it rather well I may add) in 2008-09, but with Hubby's bypass my self-discipline went out the window and I'm still waiting for it to come back. The truth is I've had enough. Food wants to rule me and squash me and break me. I hate feeling like it controls me instead of the other way round. But I don't want to control it, I just want to live at peace with food and enjoy it without all the baggage that goes with guilt, frustration and feeling lousy when you overeat and let it all get the better of you. Time for a new start. Sharon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Sohni and Sharon, you two have my utmost respect and admiration because you two have the hardest and probably the most underappreciated jobs in the world, being a homemaker. Sharon, I forgot to mention in my welcoming post that you and I have such similar stories. I've been on the same merry-go-round myself for many years. In 2008, I lost over 40 pounds and maintained the loss for about a year. Like you with your hubby's bypass, my self-discipline went out the window too the summer of 2009 due to some personal issues I was experiencing at the time. I've had enough too and have given up the fight with myself, food and weight. Besides finding this support group, reading the wonderful book "Intuitive Eating" by Tribole and Elyse Resch has helped put me on a new road. I hope it will be as helpful for you as well! Best wishes, Jeanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 Hi , welcome to the group. I went the OA route ( & TOPS)for awhile before coming to IE. It was a little scary at first to think that I might regain any of the 35 - 40 lbs that it had taken me a year to lose. It's been almost half a year & I don't think I have gained any of it back (threw out my scale) because my clothing all still fits. And as far as eating goes, I'm really enjoying being able to have whatever I want as long as I'm (truly) hungry. mj > > > > Hi! > > > > My name is and I just turned 46. I have always struggled with my weight which climbed steadily over the years. I had a couple of successful periods of weight loss but I had never lost over 20 pounds at a time. In 2001, with the fear of the gestational diabetes I had had when I was pregnant at age 31 " returning " as Type II diabetes I started a diet, calorie counting and keeping a food journal, then later weight watchers. At the time I weighed 226 and was a size 20/22. I started doing some sort of aerobic exercise daily and started losing. My calories were kept between 1200-1500. I lost 2 pounds a week in the beginning and a year and a half later had lost 96 pounds, down to 130. However, after obsessively keeping a food journal and exhausting myself with exercise I started to slowly gain back the weight. I was totally burned out and still am to a large extent! Two years ago I read Intuitive Eating and loved it! But I needed more support. I could barely find a blog about it anywhere nor could I find a yahoogroup or anything similar so IE slowly fell by the wayside. At the moment I am back to " dieting. " I am back to journaling. I must be mindful. I have to keep a purpose in front of my face at all times to succeed. I have to read about any goal I am trying to accomplish whether it be simplifying my life or dieting. A journal helps me do that but the thought of doing this for the rest of my life makes me sick to my stomach. I just want to be " normal! " > > > > At the moment I weigh 196. I have not been over 200 pounds in a while at least so yay something!:0 I was so excited, thrilled to find this group last night as I was searching for info on the Okinawan diet. I just want to eat healthy and be healthy. I do want to chunk the scale and the food journal eventually but I am not ready, yet. Bottom line: I need to read IE again! > > > > Thank you so much for being here. I am very excited to have found the group. My mom was diagnosed with diabetes a few years back and has become a very successful intuitive eater. She has lost 60 plus pounds! > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 Hi , welcome to the group. I went the OA route ( & TOPS)for awhile before coming to IE. It was a little scary at first to think that I might regain any of the 35 - 40 lbs that it had taken me a year to lose. It's been almost half a year & I don't think I have gained any of it back (threw out my scale) because my clothing all still fits. And as far as eating goes, I'm really enjoying being able to have whatever I want as long as I'm (truly) hungry. mj > > > > Hi! > > > > My name is and I just turned 46. I have always struggled with my weight which climbed steadily over the years. I had a couple of successful periods of weight loss but I had never lost over 20 pounds at a time. In 2001, with the fear of the gestational diabetes I had had when I was pregnant at age 31 " returning " as Type II diabetes I started a diet, calorie counting and keeping a food journal, then later weight watchers. At the time I weighed 226 and was a size 20/22. I started doing some sort of aerobic exercise daily and started losing. My calories were kept between 1200-1500. I lost 2 pounds a week in the beginning and a year and a half later had lost 96 pounds, down to 130. However, after obsessively keeping a food journal and exhausting myself with exercise I started to slowly gain back the weight. I was totally burned out and still am to a large extent! Two years ago I read Intuitive Eating and loved it! But I needed more support. I could barely find a blog about it anywhere nor could I find a yahoogroup or anything similar so IE slowly fell by the wayside. At the moment I am back to " dieting. " I am back to journaling. I must be mindful. I have to keep a purpose in front of my face at all times to succeed. I have to read about any goal I am trying to accomplish whether it be simplifying my life or dieting. A journal helps me do that but the thought of doing this for the rest of my life makes me sick to my stomach. I just want to be " normal! " > > > > At the moment I weigh 196. I have not been over 200 pounds in a while at least so yay something!:0 I was so excited, thrilled to find this group last night as I was searching for info on the Okinawan diet. I just want to eat healthy and be healthy. I do want to chunk the scale and the food journal eventually but I am not ready, yet. Bottom line: I need to read IE again! > > > > Thank you so much for being here. I am very excited to have found the group. My mom was diagnosed with diabetes a few years back and has become a very successful intuitive eater. She has lost 60 plus pounds! > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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