Re: I don't trust myself...

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Hi Abby,

It was a great day to get outdoors, and I read in your email to Jeanne that you both got out; that's awesome. I took a nice walk today and am hoping for the same tomorrow.

I think intuitive eating takes development of trust in self because the biggest worry I'd had, initially, was will I keep choosing the cake and chocolate or will I start to want a greater variety of foods. And it turns out I do want variety and I care about my health, so my worry was unfounded, but hindsight is 20/20.I like the idea of abundance; it evokes a calm feeling around food for me. I think of how nurturing eating can be also. I mean it's great self-care to get hungry and then be more than happy to care for that hunger with food.

Laurie

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Sat, March 6, 2010 11:25:27 AMSubject: Re: I don't trust myself...

For me, personally, it has helped me to create a feeling of abundance around me. As long as I don't trust myself with something, the food (really the idea of it) has power over me.

It is challenging and scary to let go of control. But if I know that I have the special food easily accessible whenever I find I'm hungry for it, it usually ceases to be quite so powerful in a short amount of time.

Learning to trust ourselves is hard and scary... but isn't that sort of the point of intuitive eating? Believing that our bodies know what they are doing?

That said, rome wasn't built in a day. All this stuff takes time. Be patient with yourself.... but maybe try to imagine a day where you trust yourself?

Best,Abby

On Mar 5, 2010 11:58 AM, "jeanniet58" <jeanniet58gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I don't have a lot of things I like to eat in the house, for a lot of reasons (cost, room, and yes, not completely trusting myself). I feel OK about it because I tell myself that if it's something I really want I can go out and get it anytime, even if I have to pay more for it. I'm pretty cheap about food, so part of my IE work is telling myself that if it's something I want to eat I should go ahead and get it, even if it's more expensive than I'd usually spend. The other thing is that I don't want boxes of food sitting around that I might not touch for months. Sometimes I think I want something and it turns out I really don't. If I want it enough to go out of my way to get it then I guess I really do want it!Sohni

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