Re: I'm new and this is my story.

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Thank you Laurie,

Nice to meet you as well. I don't really know where 'drinks' fit in on the

Intuitive Eating plan. I basically eat when I am hungry and stop when I am full

(most of the time) but I don't know how drinks work into that. Do you have a

drink as part of a 'meal' and stop when you are full? Or does it fall under the

'taste' category and you can just have one whenever you like? I always get skim

milk instead of full fat, but only because I can't taste the difference (that

was in the Intuitive Eating book as ok) but I probably drink three a day. I find

that when I drink something to fill my hunger that I am soon hungry afterwards

and are just concerned I'm not getting enough 'real food' during the day.

Sometimes I worry I'm not eating enough! Or I'm drinking a lot of my calories in

order to keep myself awake for work. It completely exhausts me with the hours I

work.

You sound like you've been there, maybe you can shed some light.

Thanks in advance!

C

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> Hi, Carla, and welcome to our group. What a great introductory post--and what

a long journey it's been for you, starting as you did back when you were a

child!

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> The challenges you mention are ones I have faced/am facing, too. I used to

drink a lot of calories in lattes--without ever checking the calorie count, so

wasn't even aware that's what I was doing--and it wasn't until I started IE that

I realized they just didn't make me feel all that good afterwards. I had my

first latte last week since April when I started IE in earnest, and I ended up

getting the smallest size and barely being able to finish it. I used to use

those instead of breakfast, telling myself I didn't have time for breakfast (and

frankly I was never hungry in the morning because of how much I'd eaten at

night), but now that I'm actually sitting down and having breakfast, I find the

lattes have minimal appeal. I only used to drink them on the days when I worked

in the office (two days/week), and one of those days my commute buddy still

wants to stop at Starbucks, but I'm never hungry and also want to be able to

enjoy my lunch break (I only eat lunch out on the days I work in the office), so

the lattes just naturally started not sounding as good as they used to. I never

felt like I was " being good " or depriving myself by not ordering one--instead I

just plain didn't want one, even though the easiest thing would have been to go

ahead and get one, because after all, I was there with my commute buddy.

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> Can't say I've got this perfect by a long shot--I still overeat nights after

the long days in the office, unless I can get myself to realize that eating

won't solve how tired I am, and just go to bed with a good book. But there's

even some progress there. I also find, oddly, that I would *rather* do most of

my eating earlier in the day now--I, who balked and could never follow Bob

Greene's so-strict rule of not eating anything after 7:00 or 8:00. Now many

evenings I prefer just have a cup of tea. So strange.

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> I look forward to hearing more from you. Welcome aboard! Lots of good support

here.

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> Hello everyone,

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> My name is Carla and this is my first post. Here's a bit about me:

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