Guest guest Posted July 25, 2010 Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 Greetings all! This week is an overview of the 10 principles of intuitive eating. Instead of asking detailed questions on each principle, which will come in the separate chapters in which they are introduced, I'll ask you to comment on the principles. As you read the principles, one by one, think about where you are in the process, whether it feels easy or nearly impossible to maintain, whether you agree with the principle or will just try it to see if it works, etc. Be honest and share your thoughts and feelings on each one! You can divide this into parts, answer 5 one day and 5 the next. In this way we will get to know each other better and will also be able to share our hopes and fears about this program. I'll type out the principles here: 1. Reject the Diet Mentality 2. Honor your Hunger 3. Make Peace with Food 4. Challenge the Food Police 5. Feel Your Fullness 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food 8. Respect your Body 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition Thanks, all! I won't post on chapter 4 until August 3, as I'll be in and out of town for the next week. Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Hi , just wanted to let you know that I will get around to this at some point. I want to do it, just haven't had time this week. Thanks, TanaTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 8:13:08 PMSubject: Chapter 3: overview Greetings all! This week is an overview of the 10 principles of intuitive eating. Instead of asking detailed questions on each principle, which will come in the separate chapters in which they are introduced, I'll ask you to comment on the principles. As you read the principles, one by one, think about where you are in the process, whether it feels easy or nearly impossible to maintain, whether you agree with the principle or will just try it to see if it works, etc. Be honest and share your thoughts and feelings on each one! You can divide this into parts, answer 5 one day and 5 the next. In this way we will get to know each other better and will also be able to share our hopes and fears about this program. I'll type out the principles here: 1. Reject the Diet Mentality 2. Honor your Hunger 3. Make Peace with Food 4. Challenge the Food Police 5. Feel Your Fullness 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food 8. Respect your Body 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition Thanks, all! I won't post on chapter 4 until August 3, as I'll be in and out of town for the next week. Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Hi , just wanted to let you know that I will get around to this at some point. I want to do it, just haven't had time this week. Thanks, TanaTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 8:13:08 PMSubject: Chapter 3: overview Greetings all! This week is an overview of the 10 principles of intuitive eating. Instead of asking detailed questions on each principle, which will come in the separate chapters in which they are introduced, I'll ask you to comment on the principles. As you read the principles, one by one, think about where you are in the process, whether it feels easy or nearly impossible to maintain, whether you agree with the principle or will just try it to see if it works, etc. Be honest and share your thoughts and feelings on each one! You can divide this into parts, answer 5 one day and 5 the next. In this way we will get to know each other better and will also be able to share our hopes and fears about this program. I'll type out the principles here: 1. Reject the Diet Mentality 2. Honor your Hunger 3. Make Peace with Food 4. Challenge the Food Police 5. Feel Your Fullness 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food 8. Respect your Body 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition Thanks, all! I won't post on chapter 4 until August 3, as I'll be in and out of town for the next week. Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Hi , just wanted to let you know that I will get around to this at some point. I want to do it, just haven't had time this week. Thanks, TanaTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 8:13:08 PMSubject: Chapter 3: overview Greetings all! This week is an overview of the 10 principles of intuitive eating. Instead of asking detailed questions on each principle, which will come in the separate chapters in which they are introduced, I'll ask you to comment on the principles. As you read the principles, one by one, think about where you are in the process, whether it feels easy or nearly impossible to maintain, whether you agree with the principle or will just try it to see if it works, etc. Be honest and share your thoughts and feelings on each one! You can divide this into parts, answer 5 one day and 5 the next. In this way we will get to know each other better and will also be able to share our hopes and fears about this program. I'll type out the principles here: 1. Reject the Diet Mentality 2. Honor your Hunger 3. Make Peace with Food 4. Challenge the Food Police 5. Feel Your Fullness 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food 8. Respect your Body 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition Thanks, all! I won't post on chapter 4 until August 3, as I'll be in and out of town for the next week. Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Here are my responses! 1. Reject the Diet Mentality This feels fairly easy right now, but I'm still in the honeymoon phase, so I wonder how long that will be the case. About 10 years ago or so, I toyed with the idea of fat acceptance and it seemed like a great idea to reject dieting and learn to love your body exactly as it is, but at the end of the day, I didn't really believe I could be happy as long as I was fat, and I had a really hard time believing anyone else really could be either. I still struggle with that idea, but there are enough FA blogs around - my first experience was before I had a personal computer and regular access to the internet - that I peruse from time to time that I do believe others can accept themselves (though I sure wish I could figure out how!). All of which is a long way of saying that this sounds great now. But if I were to start gaining weight, I'm not so sure that I wouldn't revert to old habits. > 2. Honor your Hunger I've never been one to ignore hunger. Just can't do it. Even when dieting, I was the kind who would fill up on low cal foods so I would never be hungry. So this one is easy for me. > 3. Make Peace with Food This feels somewhat easy right now. I won't say I feel calm about every single food; I think that will take time. But this feels like it's getting easier. > 4. Challenge the Food Police I've always been a bit of a rebel here. I didn't always have the courage to challenge food police boldly, but there have always been things about diets or things certain " experts " have said, that never made sense to me. Or that I knew didn't work for me. I think I'm fairly comfortable not following what food police say. Challenging them openly in front of others may be another story. I'm probably far more likely, at this point, to just say nothing and then do what I think is right. > 5. Feel Your Fullness This is the one I'm struggling with most right now. Wouldn't say I think it's impossible, but I do wonder how long it will take to get this one. Feels like it will be a long time. > 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor I'm not having a problem eating what I want, but I need to work more on the environment. Things like eating at a nicely set table, on good plates and silver, instead of on a corner of my dining table, the rest of which is covered with unopened mail, using mismatched chipped plates, need to become a priority. I think that having a much nicer environment, will add to the satisfaction I get from the food. > 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food This will take some work. For the most part, I haven't been aware of the extent to which I am an emotional eater, so I have a lot of work to do here. Doesn't feel impossible, but there's a lot to be discovered, I think. > 8. Respect your Body Not quite impossible, but up there. I can appreciate a lot of things about my body - like I really like how much stronger I am after working with my personal trainer - and I no longer think my expectations of what I'd like to become are unrealistic (like they were for a very long time), but I have a hard time fully appreciating my body at this size. It still makes me very unhappy to be heavy and we won't even talk about the funk I get into when I have to shop or try to get dressed up for anything. This is definitely tough. > 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference I just wrote a post on my blog (www.artofintuitiveliving,blogspot.com) about the concept of joyful exercise. In a nutshell, there's no such thing as far as I'm concerned. I'm just not an exerciser. Don't like it. Never have and probably never will. BUT, as I mentioned above, I do appreciate how much stronger I am now after working with my trainer and I also really appreciate how toned I am. I'm about a size smaller now than I was two years ago, even though I'm no lighter. That's pretty good. So I do it. I hate every minute of it and if I thought I could get away with it, I'd never do it. But I do think the benefits are worth it. > 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition This is somewhat easy. I actually care a lot about nutrition and it's something I've read a lot about in recent years. I think it's really really important. I'm in a phase now where I'm just eating what I want and not caring much about nutrition, but I think that fairly soon, I'll get back to focusing more on nutrition. Josie > > Greetings all! > > This week is an overview of the 10 principles of intuitive eating. > Instead of asking detailed questions on each principle, which will > come in the separate chapters in which they are introduced, I'll ask > you to comment on the principles. As you read the principles, one by > one, think about where you are in the process, whether it feels easy > or nearly impossible to maintain, whether you agree with the > principle or will just try it to see if it works, etc. Be honest and > share your thoughts and feelings on each one! You can divide this > into parts, answer 5 one day and 5 the next. In this way we will > get to know each other better and will also be able to share our > hopes and fears about this program. > > I'll type out the principles here: > > 1. Reject the Diet Mentality > > 2. Honor your Hunger > > 3. Make Peace with Food > > 4. Challenge the Food Police > > 5. Feel Your Fullness > > 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor > > 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food > > 8. Respect your Body > > 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference > > 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition > > Thanks, all! I won't post on chapter 4 until August 3, as I'll be in > and out of town for the next week. > > Cheers, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Here are my responses! 1. Reject the Diet Mentality This feels fairly easy right now, but I'm still in the honeymoon phase, so I wonder how long that will be the case. About 10 years ago or so, I toyed with the idea of fat acceptance and it seemed like a great idea to reject dieting and learn to love your body exactly as it is, but at the end of the day, I didn't really believe I could be happy as long as I was fat, and I had a really hard time believing anyone else really could be either. I still struggle with that idea, but there are enough FA blogs around - my first experience was before I had a personal computer and regular access to the internet - that I peruse from time to time that I do believe others can accept themselves (though I sure wish I could figure out how!). All of which is a long way of saying that this sounds great now. But if I were to start gaining weight, I'm not so sure that I wouldn't revert to old habits. > 2. Honor your Hunger I've never been one to ignore hunger. Just can't do it. Even when dieting, I was the kind who would fill up on low cal foods so I would never be hungry. So this one is easy for me. > 3. Make Peace with Food This feels somewhat easy right now. I won't say I feel calm about every single food; I think that will take time. But this feels like it's getting easier. > 4. Challenge the Food Police I've always been a bit of a rebel here. I didn't always have the courage to challenge food police boldly, but there have always been things about diets or things certain " experts " have said, that never made sense to me. Or that I knew didn't work for me. I think I'm fairly comfortable not following what food police say. Challenging them openly in front of others may be another story. I'm probably far more likely, at this point, to just say nothing and then do what I think is right. > 5. Feel Your Fullness This is the one I'm struggling with most right now. Wouldn't say I think it's impossible, but I do wonder how long it will take to get this one. Feels like it will be a long time. > 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor I'm not having a problem eating what I want, but I need to work more on the environment. Things like eating at a nicely set table, on good plates and silver, instead of on a corner of my dining table, the rest of which is covered with unopened mail, using mismatched chipped plates, need to become a priority. I think that having a much nicer environment, will add to the satisfaction I get from the food. > 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food This will take some work. For the most part, I haven't been aware of the extent to which I am an emotional eater, so I have a lot of work to do here. Doesn't feel impossible, but there's a lot to be discovered, I think. > 8. Respect your Body Not quite impossible, but up there. I can appreciate a lot of things about my body - like I really like how much stronger I am after working with my personal trainer - and I no longer think my expectations of what I'd like to become are unrealistic (like they were for a very long time), but I have a hard time fully appreciating my body at this size. It still makes me very unhappy to be heavy and we won't even talk about the funk I get into when I have to shop or try to get dressed up for anything. This is definitely tough. > 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference I just wrote a post on my blog (www.artofintuitiveliving,blogspot.com) about the concept of joyful exercise. In a nutshell, there's no such thing as far as I'm concerned. I'm just not an exerciser. Don't like it. Never have and probably never will. BUT, as I mentioned above, I do appreciate how much stronger I am now after working with my trainer and I also really appreciate how toned I am. I'm about a size smaller now than I was two years ago, even though I'm no lighter. That's pretty good. So I do it. I hate every minute of it and if I thought I could get away with it, I'd never do it. But I do think the benefits are worth it. > 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition This is somewhat easy. I actually care a lot about nutrition and it's something I've read a lot about in recent years. I think it's really really important. I'm in a phase now where I'm just eating what I want and not caring much about nutrition, but I think that fairly soon, I'll get back to focusing more on nutrition. Josie > > Greetings all! > > This week is an overview of the 10 principles of intuitive eating. > Instead of asking detailed questions on each principle, which will > come in the separate chapters in which they are introduced, I'll ask > you to comment on the principles. As you read the principles, one by > one, think about where you are in the process, whether it feels easy > or nearly impossible to maintain, whether you agree with the > principle or will just try it to see if it works, etc. Be honest and > share your thoughts and feelings on each one! You can divide this > into parts, answer 5 one day and 5 the next. In this way we will > get to know each other better and will also be able to share our > hopes and fears about this program. > > I'll type out the principles here: > > 1. Reject the Diet Mentality > > 2. Honor your Hunger > > 3. Make Peace with Food > > 4. Challenge the Food Police > > 5. Feel Your Fullness > > 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor > > 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food > > 8. Respect your Body > > 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference > > 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition > > Thanks, all! I won't post on chapter 4 until August 3, as I'll be in > and out of town for the next week. > > Cheers, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Here are my responses! 1. Reject the Diet Mentality This feels fairly easy right now, but I'm still in the honeymoon phase, so I wonder how long that will be the case. About 10 years ago or so, I toyed with the idea of fat acceptance and it seemed like a great idea to reject dieting and learn to love your body exactly as it is, but at the end of the day, I didn't really believe I could be happy as long as I was fat, and I had a really hard time believing anyone else really could be either. I still struggle with that idea, but there are enough FA blogs around - my first experience was before I had a personal computer and regular access to the internet - that I peruse from time to time that I do believe others can accept themselves (though I sure wish I could figure out how!). All of which is a long way of saying that this sounds great now. But if I were to start gaining weight, I'm not so sure that I wouldn't revert to old habits. > 2. Honor your Hunger I've never been one to ignore hunger. Just can't do it. Even when dieting, I was the kind who would fill up on low cal foods so I would never be hungry. So this one is easy for me. > 3. Make Peace with Food This feels somewhat easy right now. I won't say I feel calm about every single food; I think that will take time. But this feels like it's getting easier. > 4. Challenge the Food Police I've always been a bit of a rebel here. I didn't always have the courage to challenge food police boldly, but there have always been things about diets or things certain " experts " have said, that never made sense to me. Or that I knew didn't work for me. I think I'm fairly comfortable not following what food police say. Challenging them openly in front of others may be another story. I'm probably far more likely, at this point, to just say nothing and then do what I think is right. > 5. Feel Your Fullness This is the one I'm struggling with most right now. Wouldn't say I think it's impossible, but I do wonder how long it will take to get this one. Feels like it will be a long time. > 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor I'm not having a problem eating what I want, but I need to work more on the environment. Things like eating at a nicely set table, on good plates and silver, instead of on a corner of my dining table, the rest of which is covered with unopened mail, using mismatched chipped plates, need to become a priority. I think that having a much nicer environment, will add to the satisfaction I get from the food. > 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food This will take some work. For the most part, I haven't been aware of the extent to which I am an emotional eater, so I have a lot of work to do here. Doesn't feel impossible, but there's a lot to be discovered, I think. > 8. Respect your Body Not quite impossible, but up there. I can appreciate a lot of things about my body - like I really like how much stronger I am after working with my personal trainer - and I no longer think my expectations of what I'd like to become are unrealistic (like they were for a very long time), but I have a hard time fully appreciating my body at this size. It still makes me very unhappy to be heavy and we won't even talk about the funk I get into when I have to shop or try to get dressed up for anything. This is definitely tough. > 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference I just wrote a post on my blog (www.artofintuitiveliving,blogspot.com) about the concept of joyful exercise. In a nutshell, there's no such thing as far as I'm concerned. I'm just not an exerciser. Don't like it. Never have and probably never will. BUT, as I mentioned above, I do appreciate how much stronger I am now after working with my trainer and I also really appreciate how toned I am. I'm about a size smaller now than I was two years ago, even though I'm no lighter. That's pretty good. So I do it. I hate every minute of it and if I thought I could get away with it, I'd never do it. But I do think the benefits are worth it. > 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition This is somewhat easy. I actually care a lot about nutrition and it's something I've read a lot about in recent years. I think it's really really important. I'm in a phase now where I'm just eating what I want and not caring much about nutrition, but I think that fairly soon, I'll get back to focusing more on nutrition. Josie > > Greetings all! > > This week is an overview of the 10 principles of intuitive eating. > Instead of asking detailed questions on each principle, which will > come in the separate chapters in which they are introduced, I'll ask > you to comment on the principles. As you read the principles, one by > one, think about where you are in the process, whether it feels easy > or nearly impossible to maintain, whether you agree with the > principle or will just try it to see if it works, etc. Be honest and > share your thoughts and feelings on each one! You can divide this > into parts, answer 5 one day and 5 the next. In this way we will > get to know each other better and will also be able to share our > hopes and fears about this program. > > I'll type out the principles here: > > 1. Reject the Diet Mentality > > 2. Honor your Hunger > > 3. Make Peace with Food > > 4. Challenge the Food Police > > 5. Feel Your Fullness > > 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor > > 7. Cope with Your Emotions without Using Food > > 8. Respect your Body > > 9. Exercise--Feel the Difference > > 10. Honor your Health--Gentle Nutrition > > Thanks, all! I won't post on chapter 4 until August 3, as I'll be in > and out of town for the next week. > > Cheers, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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