Re: Hi, I am new to this group

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Hi everyone,I'm new here too and behind in responding,. I'm so grateful for the effort others make to express how they are doing and the truth about the "issues"...:)For me, I've submerged myself in both the Geneen Roth's work and also IE over the last year....I think taking on a NOW approach has been helpful to me. Stopping in the middle of a forkful insertion of food into my non hungry mouth, I ask myself: ", what do you really need in this very moment since you aren't really hungry for food?" Often, the conclusion is simply allowing myself to BE with me. I can't explain it very well, but for most of my life, I have gone from one thing to the next in a frenetic fashion, never really taking time and focus or simply savor the very moment.....I was always looking for other things to savor and even savoring food

wasn't the richest experience it could have been because I was hurrying through that as well...!!! go figure, it's one goofy experience!!!! But these days, I look at myself with COMPASSION, the most compassion I've had for myself in my whole life and that also makes a difference.Thank you everyone for sharing your experiences here...it helps A LOT...Subject: Hi, I am new to this groupTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 10:50 PM

Hello my name is Tana and I am new to this intuitive eating group. I started IE almost 4 yrs ago and had an incredibly successful experience with it. I worked with a nutritionist in the Seattle area and I learned so much, IE really became a way of life for me.

Then about a year after my daughter was born and I had lost 30 of the 50 excess pounds I had left over from my two pregnancies something shifted in me and I lost the ability to IE. I think I was to excited about the weight loss and started focusing on the scale and the number to much and I started thinking I knew how I needed to eat so my focus changed from eating from my body's signals to an intellectual eating. The change was so subtle I haven't really been able to put my finger on what happened until just recently (2 yrs later). Its been such a struggle over the last two years, constantly weighing myself, not ever really dieting but always having the food police in my head about what was ok and not ok, the obsession taking over and the feelings of not being good enough, comparing my body to other women, etc. etc. You know the deal.

I live in Maui now and I just spoke with my nutritionist the other day for the first time in yrs. I have decided I am going back to the beginning with the IE, I am letting go and allowing myself to eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it. Its been really uncomfortable doing this, change always is, but I also feel a small amount of freedom from it too.

I noticed the first night when I sat down to dinner with the family I wasn't hungry but I ate anyway, not sure what that was all about. The second night I sat down for dinner with the family I noticed that I was eating really really fast, i've noticed that at other meals too. So tonight when I sat down for dinner I noticed I was eating fast and slowed down a bit.

I am also reading the new Geneen Roth book everyone else is talking about and using some of the tools in there, such as The Voice.

Just wanted to take the time to introduce myself and I could write a lot more about what is going on in my life but will save that for other posts as I have already written so much. Definately looking for support and a community of IE so I can have people to talk to about it without having to pay my nutritionist $100 a pop! lol!

Thanks so much,

Tana

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Hi everyone,I'm new here too and behind in responding,. I'm so grateful for the effort others make to express how they are doing and the truth about the "issues"...:)For me, I've submerged myself in both the Geneen Roth's work and also IE over the last year....I think taking on a NOW approach has been helpful to me. Stopping in the middle of a forkful insertion of food into my non hungry mouth, I ask myself: ", what do you really need in this very moment since you aren't really hungry for food?" Often, the conclusion is simply allowing myself to BE with me. I can't explain it very well, but for most of my life, I have gone from one thing to the next in a frenetic fashion, never really taking time and focus or simply savor the very moment.....I was always looking for other things to savor and even savoring food

wasn't the richest experience it could have been because I was hurrying through that as well...!!! go figure, it's one goofy experience!!!! But these days, I look at myself with COMPASSION, the most compassion I've had for myself in my whole life and that also makes a difference.Thank you everyone for sharing your experiences here...it helps A LOT...Subject: Hi, I am new to this groupTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 10:50 PM

Hello my name is Tana and I am new to this intuitive eating group. I started IE almost 4 yrs ago and had an incredibly successful experience with it. I worked with a nutritionist in the Seattle area and I learned so much, IE really became a way of life for me.

Then about a year after my daughter was born and I had lost 30 of the 50 excess pounds I had left over from my two pregnancies something shifted in me and I lost the ability to IE. I think I was to excited about the weight loss and started focusing on the scale and the number to much and I started thinking I knew how I needed to eat so my focus changed from eating from my body's signals to an intellectual eating. The change was so subtle I haven't really been able to put my finger on what happened until just recently (2 yrs later). Its been such a struggle over the last two years, constantly weighing myself, not ever really dieting but always having the food police in my head about what was ok and not ok, the obsession taking over and the feelings of not being good enough, comparing my body to other women, etc. etc. You know the deal.

I live in Maui now and I just spoke with my nutritionist the other day for the first time in yrs. I have decided I am going back to the beginning with the IE, I am letting go and allowing myself to eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it. Its been really uncomfortable doing this, change always is, but I also feel a small amount of freedom from it too.

I noticed the first night when I sat down to dinner with the family I wasn't hungry but I ate anyway, not sure what that was all about. The second night I sat down for dinner with the family I noticed that I was eating really really fast, i've noticed that at other meals too. So tonight when I sat down for dinner I noticed I was eating fast and slowed down a bit.

I am also reading the new Geneen Roth book everyone else is talking about and using some of the tools in there, such as The Voice.

Just wanted to take the time to introduce myself and I could write a lot more about what is going on in my life but will save that for other posts as I have already written so much. Definately looking for support and a community of IE so I can have people to talk to about it without having to pay my nutritionist $100 a pop! lol!

Thanks so much,

Tana

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Hi everyone,I'm new here too and behind in responding,. I'm so grateful for the effort others make to express how they are doing and the truth about the "issues"...:)For me, I've submerged myself in both the Geneen Roth's work and also IE over the last year....I think taking on a NOW approach has been helpful to me. Stopping in the middle of a forkful insertion of food into my non hungry mouth, I ask myself: ", what do you really need in this very moment since you aren't really hungry for food?" Often, the conclusion is simply allowing myself to BE with me. I can't explain it very well, but for most of my life, I have gone from one thing to the next in a frenetic fashion, never really taking time and focus or simply savor the very moment.....I was always looking for other things to savor and even savoring food

wasn't the richest experience it could have been because I was hurrying through that as well...!!! go figure, it's one goofy experience!!!! But these days, I look at myself with COMPASSION, the most compassion I've had for myself in my whole life and that also makes a difference.Thank you everyone for sharing your experiences here...it helps A LOT...Subject: Hi, I am new to this groupTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 10:50 PM

Hello my name is Tana and I am new to this intuitive eating group. I started IE almost 4 yrs ago and had an incredibly successful experience with it. I worked with a nutritionist in the Seattle area and I learned so much, IE really became a way of life for me.

Then about a year after my daughter was born and I had lost 30 of the 50 excess pounds I had left over from my two pregnancies something shifted in me and I lost the ability to IE. I think I was to excited about the weight loss and started focusing on the scale and the number to much and I started thinking I knew how I needed to eat so my focus changed from eating from my body's signals to an intellectual eating. The change was so subtle I haven't really been able to put my finger on what happened until just recently (2 yrs later). Its been such a struggle over the last two years, constantly weighing myself, not ever really dieting but always having the food police in my head about what was ok and not ok, the obsession taking over and the feelings of not being good enough, comparing my body to other women, etc. etc. You know the deal.

I live in Maui now and I just spoke with my nutritionist the other day for the first time in yrs. I have decided I am going back to the beginning with the IE, I am letting go and allowing myself to eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it. Its been really uncomfortable doing this, change always is, but I also feel a small amount of freedom from it too.

I noticed the first night when I sat down to dinner with the family I wasn't hungry but I ate anyway, not sure what that was all about. The second night I sat down for dinner with the family I noticed that I was eating really really fast, i've noticed that at other meals too. So tonight when I sat down for dinner I noticed I was eating fast and slowed down a bit.

I am also reading the new Geneen Roth book everyone else is talking about and using some of the tools in there, such as The Voice.

Just wanted to take the time to introduce myself and I could write a lot more about what is going on in my life but will save that for other posts as I have already written so much. Definately looking for support and a community of IE so I can have people to talk to about it without having to pay my nutritionist $100 a pop! lol!

Thanks so much,

Tana

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Welcome to the group! I would be glad if we could all save you $100. I'm sure there are some great new clothes you could buy yourself that make you feel beautiful! I think it's great you noticed what you were doing when you were eating. I'm curious if you are able to have one meal alone per day without anyone's demands on you, so that you can experience the joy of food without distractions?KateHello my name is Tana and I am new to this intuitive eating group. I started IE almost 4 yrs ago and had an incredibly successful experience with it. I worked with a nutritionist in the Seattle area and I learned so much, IE really became a way of life for me. Then about a year after my daughter was born and I had lost 30 of the 50 excess pounds I had left over from my two pregnancies something shifted in me and I lost the ability to IE. I think I was to excited about the weight loss and started focusing on the scale and the number to much and I started thinking I knew how I needed to eat so my focus changed from eating from my body's signals to an intellectual eating. The change was so subtle I haven't really been able to put my finger on what happened until just recently (2 yrs later). Its been such a struggle over the last two years, constantly weighing myself, not ever really dieting but always having the food police in my head about what was ok and not ok, the obsession taking over and the feelings of not being good enough, comparing my body to other women, etc. etc. You know the deal. I live in Maui now and I just spoke with my nutritionist the other day for the first time in yrs. I have decided I am going back to the beginning with the IE, I am letting go and allowing myself to eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it. Its been really uncomfortable doing this, change always is, but I also feel a small amount of freedom from it too. I noticed the first night when I sat down to dinner with the family I wasn't hungry but I ate anyway, not sure what that was all about. The second night I sat down for dinner with the family I noticed that I was eating really really fast, i've noticed that at other meals too. So tonight when I sat down for dinner I noticed I was eating fast and slowed down a bit. I am also reading the new Geneen Roth book everyone else is talking about and using some of the tools in there, such as The Voice. Just wanted to take the time to introduce myself and I could write a lot more about what is going on in my life but will save that for other posts as I have already written so much. Definately looking for support and a community of IE so I can have people to talk to about it without having to pay my nutritionist $100 a pop! lol!Thanks so much, Tana

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Welcome to the group! I would be glad if we could all save you $100. I'm sure there are some great new clothes you could buy yourself that make you feel beautiful! I think it's great you noticed what you were doing when you were eating. I'm curious if you are able to have one meal alone per day without anyone's demands on you, so that you can experience the joy of food without distractions?KateHello my name is Tana and I am new to this intuitive eating group. I started IE almost 4 yrs ago and had an incredibly successful experience with it. I worked with a nutritionist in the Seattle area and I learned so much, IE really became a way of life for me. Then about a year after my daughter was born and I had lost 30 of the 50 excess pounds I had left over from my two pregnancies something shifted in me and I lost the ability to IE. I think I was to excited about the weight loss and started focusing on the scale and the number to much and I started thinking I knew how I needed to eat so my focus changed from eating from my body's signals to an intellectual eating. The change was so subtle I haven't really been able to put my finger on what happened until just recently (2 yrs later). Its been such a struggle over the last two years, constantly weighing myself, not ever really dieting but always having the food police in my head about what was ok and not ok, the obsession taking over and the feelings of not being good enough, comparing my body to other women, etc. etc. You know the deal. I live in Maui now and I just spoke with my nutritionist the other day for the first time in yrs. I have decided I am going back to the beginning with the IE, I am letting go and allowing myself to eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it. Its been really uncomfortable doing this, change always is, but I also feel a small amount of freedom from it too. I noticed the first night when I sat down to dinner with the family I wasn't hungry but I ate anyway, not sure what that was all about. The second night I sat down for dinner with the family I noticed that I was eating really really fast, i've noticed that at other meals too. So tonight when I sat down for dinner I noticed I was eating fast and slowed down a bit. I am also reading the new Geneen Roth book everyone else is talking about and using some of the tools in there, such as The Voice. Just wanted to take the time to introduce myself and I could write a lot more about what is going on in my life but will save that for other posts as I have already written so much. Definately looking for support and a community of IE so I can have people to talk to about it without having to pay my nutritionist $100 a pop! lol!Thanks so much, Tana

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Welcome to the group! I would be glad if we could all save you $100. I'm sure there are some great new clothes you could buy yourself that make you feel beautiful! I think it's great you noticed what you were doing when you were eating. I'm curious if you are able to have one meal alone per day without anyone's demands on you, so that you can experience the joy of food without distractions?KateHello my name is Tana and I am new to this intuitive eating group. I started IE almost 4 yrs ago and had an incredibly successful experience with it. I worked with a nutritionist in the Seattle area and I learned so much, IE really became a way of life for me. Then about a year after my daughter was born and I had lost 30 of the 50 excess pounds I had left over from my two pregnancies something shifted in me and I lost the ability to IE. I think I was to excited about the weight loss and started focusing on the scale and the number to much and I started thinking I knew how I needed to eat so my focus changed from eating from my body's signals to an intellectual eating. The change was so subtle I haven't really been able to put my finger on what happened until just recently (2 yrs later). Its been such a struggle over the last two years, constantly weighing myself, not ever really dieting but always having the food police in my head about what was ok and not ok, the obsession taking over and the feelings of not being good enough, comparing my body to other women, etc. etc. You know the deal. I live in Maui now and I just spoke with my nutritionist the other day for the first time in yrs. I have decided I am going back to the beginning with the IE, I am letting go and allowing myself to eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it. Its been really uncomfortable doing this, change always is, but I also feel a small amount of freedom from it too. I noticed the first night when I sat down to dinner with the family I wasn't hungry but I ate anyway, not sure what that was all about. The second night I sat down for dinner with the family I noticed that I was eating really really fast, i've noticed that at other meals too. So tonight when I sat down for dinner I noticed I was eating fast and slowed down a bit. I am also reading the new Geneen Roth book everyone else is talking about and using some of the tools in there, such as The Voice. Just wanted to take the time to introduce myself and I could write a lot more about what is going on in my life but will save that for other posts as I have already written so much. Definately looking for support and a community of IE so I can have people to talk to about it without having to pay my nutritionist $100 a pop! lol!Thanks so much, Tana

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Hi, ,

Welcome! Boy, does what you write about being frenetic sound familiar to me! I think you explain it perfectly. I'm looking forward to hearing more from you.

All best,

Laurie

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>>>I can't explain it very well, but for most of my life, I have gone from one thing to the next in a frenetic fashion, never really taking time and focus or simply savor the very moment.....I was always looking for other things to savor and even savoring food wasn't the richest experience it could have been because I was hurrying through that as well...!!!<<<