Re: New to IE and struggling

[Guest guest]

Welcome to our group!

I think the thing that helped me most when I felt I "didn't have time" to do this IE work was Geneen Roth's statement that the way we interact with food is the way we live our lives. What does it say about your priorities if basic nurturing of your physical body isn't more important than work or anything else? What are you telling yourself about how important your health and well-being and happiness are if they take a back seat to your singing group?

In Roth's book "When Food is Food and Love is Love," she imagines the ludicrous scene of inviting a friend over to eat with you the way you eat when you're alone: standing up digging out with your fingers leftover Chinese food from a take-out carton because you "don't have the time" to eat any other way. Excuse me?

The other day I found myself grabbing a granola bar for breakfast because we had somewhere to go and I'd put feeding the dogs and putting the house in order ahead of feeding myself breakfast. At least I realized I was hungry and tried to do something to honor my hunger. But as I was standing in the alley waiting for my husband to pull the car out of the garage, and crunching on what I now realized was a stale and pretty disgusting granola bar, I realized what I'd done to myself, threw the granola bar into a garbage bin, and told my husband when we were done with our first errand (which was the only one that was time-sensitive), I wanted to go get some lunch. In times past, I probably would have just finished the gross granola bar and consoled myself by overeating at the next available opportunity, then I'd have berated myself for overeating. Thank goodness I'm getting more conscious of what I'm eating so that this time I was able to stop and make a correction early on in the process. The lunch we had after the errand was very tasty, and I didn't overeat. And I didn't have to eat that disgusting granola bar, either. I'm more committed now to feeding myself breakfast somewhere early in the queue of things I have to do in the morning.

Night time eating is a big problem for me, too, but less so now that I'm actually taking more time for myself. I think I was really trying to compensate for having had a too-busy, too-frantic day. It was a way of self-soothing.

It's a process; give yourself some time. You'll do fine, and pretty soon you'll be telling us success stories, I'm sure.

Laurie

New to IE and struggling

Hi All,

Just wanted to say Hi to everyone, first of all.

Then want to mention that I've read the IE book and have listened to the

CDs (LOVE the CDs) of the book.

It all sits right with me, but I'm in the struggling phase. There are

so many distractions (work, singing group that's very active, life in

general) that it's very hard to remember to notice if I'm actually

hungry.

Also, eating before bedtime, whether hungry or not, is a BIGGY.

Thank you all for listenting and sharing!

Reputkow

[Guest guest]

Welcome to our group!

I think the thing that helped me most when I felt I "didn't have time" to do this IE work was Geneen Roth's statement that the way we interact with food is the way we live our lives. What does it say about your priorities if basic nurturing of your physical body isn't more important than work or anything else? What are you telling yourself about how important your health and well-being and happiness are if they take a back seat to your singing group?

In Roth's book "When Food is Food and Love is Love," she imagines the ludicrous scene of inviting a friend over to eat with you the way you eat when you're alone: standing up digging out with your fingers leftover Chinese food from a take-out carton because you "don't have the time" to eat any other way. Excuse me?

The other day I found myself grabbing a granola bar for breakfast because we had somewhere to go and I'd put feeding the dogs and putting the house in order ahead of feeding myself breakfast. At least I realized I was hungry and tried to do something to honor my hunger. But as I was standing in the alley waiting for my husband to pull the car out of the garage, and crunching on what I now realized was a stale and pretty disgusting granola bar, I realized what I'd done to myself, threw the granola bar into a garbage bin, and told my husband when we were done with our first errand (which was the only one that was time-sensitive), I wanted to go get some lunch. In times past, I probably would have just finished the gross granola bar and consoled myself by overeating at the next available opportunity, then I'd have berated myself for overeating. Thank goodness I'm getting more conscious of what I'm eating so that this time I was able to stop and make a correction early on in the process. The lunch we had after the errand was very tasty, and I didn't overeat. And I didn't have to eat that disgusting granola bar, either. I'm more committed now to feeding myself breakfast somewhere early in the queue of things I have to do in the morning.

Night time eating is a big problem for me, too, but less so now that I'm actually taking more time for myself. I think I was really trying to compensate for having had a too-busy, too-frantic day. It was a way of self-soothing.

It's a process; give yourself some time. You'll do fine, and pretty soon you'll be telling us success stories, I'm sure.

Laurie

New to IE and struggling

Hi All,

Just wanted to say Hi to everyone, first of all.

Then want to mention that I've read the IE book and have listened to the

CDs (LOVE the CDs) of the book.

It all sits right with me, but I'm in the struggling phase. There are

so many distractions (work, singing group that's very active, life in

general) that it's very hard to remember to notice if I'm actually

hungry.

Also, eating before bedtime, whether hungry or not, is a BIGGY.

Thank you all for listenting and sharing!

Reputkow

[Guest guest]

Welcome to our group!

I think the thing that helped me most when I felt I "didn't have time" to do this IE work was Geneen Roth's statement that the way we interact with food is the way we live our lives. What does it say about your priorities if basic nurturing of your physical body isn't more important than work or anything else? What are you telling yourself about how important your health and well-being and happiness are if they take a back seat to your singing group?

In Roth's book "When Food is Food and Love is Love," she imagines the ludicrous scene of inviting a friend over to eat with you the way you eat when you're alone: standing up digging out with your fingers leftover Chinese food from a take-out carton because you "don't have the time" to eat any other way. Excuse me?

The other day I found myself grabbing a granola bar for breakfast because we had somewhere to go and I'd put feeding the dogs and putting the house in order ahead of feeding myself breakfast. At least I realized I was hungry and tried to do something to honor my hunger. But as I was standing in the alley waiting for my husband to pull the car out of the garage, and crunching on what I now realized was a stale and pretty disgusting granola bar, I realized what I'd done to myself, threw the granola bar into a garbage bin, and told my husband when we were done with our first errand (which was the only one that was time-sensitive), I wanted to go get some lunch. In times past, I probably would have just finished the gross granola bar and consoled myself by overeating at the next available opportunity, then I'd have berated myself for overeating. Thank goodness I'm getting more conscious of what I'm eating so that this time I was able to stop and make a correction early on in the process. The lunch we had after the errand was very tasty, and I didn't overeat. And I didn't have to eat that disgusting granola bar, either. I'm more committed now to feeding myself breakfast somewhere early in the queue of things I have to do in the morning.

Night time eating is a big problem for me, too, but less so now that I'm actually taking more time for myself. I think I was really trying to compensate for having had a too-busy, too-frantic day. It was a way of self-soothing.

It's a process; give yourself some time. You'll do fine, and pretty soon you'll be telling us success stories, I'm sure.

Laurie

New to IE and struggling

Hi All,

Just wanted to say Hi to everyone, first of all.

Then want to mention that I've read the IE book and have listened to the

CDs (LOVE the CDs) of the book.

It all sits right with me, but I'm in the struggling phase. There are

so many distractions (work, singing group that's very active, life in

general) that it's very hard to remember to notice if I'm actually

hungry.

Also, eating before bedtime, whether hungry or not, is a BIGGY.

Thank you all for listenting and sharing!

Reputkow

[Guest guest]

Enjoyed your message, Laurie. Appreciated the granola bar story and could

really relate to it! And Geneen has really helped me to understand, or at least

begin to understand, that the way we eat is absolutely a reflection of how we

live our lives in general. Pretty fascinating stuff.

Anyway, good for you for throwing that granola bar away and making it a priority

to eat something you actually wanted!

Best,

Jen

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> Welcome to our group!

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> I think the thing that helped me most when I felt I " didn't have time " to do

this IE work was Geneen Roth's statement that the way we interact with food is

the way we live our lives. What does it say about your priorities if basic

nurturing of your physical body isn't more important than work or anything else?

What are you telling yourself about how important your health and well-being and

happiness are if they take a back seat to your singing group?

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> In Roth's book " When Food is Food and Love is Love, " she imagines the

ludicrous scene of inviting a friend over to eat with you the way you eat when

you're alone: standing up digging out with your fingers leftover Chinese food

from a take-out carton because you " don't have the time " to eat any other way.

Excuse me?

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> The other day I found myself grabbing a granola bar for breakfast because we

had somewhere to go and I'd put feeding the dogs and putting the house in order

ahead of feeding myself breakfast. At least I realized I was hungry and tried to

do something to honor my hunger. But as I was standing in the alley waiting for

my husband to pull the car out of the garage, and crunching on what I now

realized was a stale and pretty disgusting granola bar, I realized what I'd done

to myself, threw the granola bar into a garbage bin, and told my husband when we

were done with our first errand (which was the only one that was

time-sensitive), I wanted to go get some lunch. In times past, I probably would

have just finished the gross granola bar and consoled myself by overeating at

the next available opportunity, then I'd have berated myself for overeating.

Thank goodness I'm getting more conscious of what I'm eating so that this time I

was able to stop and make a correction early on in the process. The lunch we had

after the errand was very tasty, and I didn't overeat. And I didn't have to eat

that disgusting granola bar, either. I'm more committed now to feeding myself

breakfast somewhere early in the queue of things I have to do in the morning.

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> Night time eating is a big problem for me, too, but less so now that I'm

actually taking more time for myself. I think I was really trying to compensate

for having had a too-busy, too-frantic day. It was a way of self-soothing.

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> It's a process; give yourself some time. You'll do fine, and pretty soon

you'll be telling us success stories, I'm sure.

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> Hi All,

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> Just wanted to say Hi to everyone, first of all.

> Then want to mention that I've read the IE book and have listened to the

> CDs (LOVE the CDs) of the book.

> It all sits right with me, but I'm in the struggling phase. There are

> so many distractions (work, singing group that's very active, life in

> general) that it's very hard to remember to notice if I'm actually

> hungry.

> Also, eating before bedtime, whether hungry or not, is a BIGGY.

> Thank you all for listenting and sharing!

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> Reputkow

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