Hi, I am new to this group

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Hi, Tana,

Welcome to our group! And how good that you were able to yank yourself off the obsession train again!

I am just beginning to read an older book by Geneen Roth (finished the new one). This one is called "Appetites." In it she describes how after years of eating intuitively, she was given news that she had to avoid sugar and how it set off all her old obsessions again, to restrict that (and other things--she had candidiasis). So that cued me in that this is something we all have to make into a lifestyle, and your message about the "subtle shift" reconfirms that. Geneen talks about her realizing she'd put her identity on being the woman who had it all together, foodwise, and able to stay thin while eating whatever she wanted, and when that identity was shaken a bit, it all fell apart for her and she had to start again. Sounds sort of like what you went through (with differences, of course). It sounds like getting thin is as much a danger for obsession as getting fat!

Anyway, so glad you found us. I'm looking forward to hearing more of your story.

All best,

Laurie

Tana wrote:

>>>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. <<<