Hi, I am new to this group

June 21, 2010

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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