Re: Re: Some of my favorite quotes...

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-So well said. I'm struggling with emotional over eating right now, and I just keep telling myself, at least I am aware of it, which is so much more than I was just a year ago. Well, actually, I think it was just about 1 year ago this month that I realized how much of an emotional/boredom eater I am. Anyway, thank you, you said that in a way that made me feel that I'm progressing, even if my pants and the food around me make me feel differently.DawnTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 6:01:06 AMSubject: Re: Re: Some of my favorite quotes...

Sometimes we can get so stuck on certain principles or concepts that we tend to put them in black or white realms. Even in IE principles. For instance, I had trouble with the idea that food was not the solution to the problem, but it is okay to eat when I want to. So if I was having a moment of struggle because I could not deal with feelings or a situation and I wanted to eat, it was hard for me to think it was okay to eat, because I felt it was the wrong reason. At the same time, eating while emotional and receiving the benefit of calmness afterwards was also ok, as long as I was aware of the connection. It still boggles my mind that eating is not an absolute thing, it is a nourishment and flows like the tide. To understand that it is all about mindfulness and not about rules of conduct is still a very hard concept for me. Sometimes I feel like I am grasping at something too elusive.

From: josiesjunkmail

Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 7:59 PM

To: IntuitiveEating_Support

Subject: Re: Some of my favorite quotes...

Hi ,I think you are on to something there. I have been aware of the concept of emotional eating for ages, perhaps decades. But until earlier this year, I would have sworn up and down on a stack of bibles to anyone that would listen, that I was not emotional eater. I started IE in July, started reading Geneen Roth's books in about August, and started working with a therapist that specializes in eating disorders and IE in October. Now, I find it amazing that I never realized what an emotional eater I am. I posted in my blog in November about how I was struggling with a problem and trying not to eat over it and trying to resist, but when I finally gave in and went and had a big 's feast, I could literally feel myself being so much calmer immediately afterward. It was the first time that the effect was so pronounced to me, perhaps because I'm becoming more attuned to my body. That said, I'm still far from accomplished in this. I think we all have to just slog through and figure it out little by little.It is very very difficult work through, and if you are at all impatient, like I am, that amps up the stress because it feels like it will never happen. Keep at it. We're all here to support you. Don't know if that helps at all, but sometimes it just helps to know that others are experiencing the same thing.Josie

[Guest guest]

Wow Food is not the solution to the problem That's wild. I always thought if somehow

I could eat the ":right " foods that would solve my overeating problem. But apparently it hasn't

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 11:04:42 AMSubject: Re: Re: Some of my favorite quotes...

-So well said. I'm struggling with emotional over eating right now, and I just keep telling myself, at least I am aware of it, which is so much more than I was just a year ago. Well, actually, I think it was just about 1 year ago this month that I realized how much of an emotional/boredom eater I am. Anyway, thank you, you said that in a way that made me feel that I'm progressing, even if my pants and the food around me make me feel differently.Dawn

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 6:01:06 AMSubject: Re: Re: Some of my favorite quotes...

Sometimes we can get so stuck on certain principles or concepts that we tend to put them in black or white realms. Even in IE principles. For instance, I had trouble with the idea that food was not the solution to the problem, but it is okay to eat when I want to. So if I was having a moment of struggle because I could not deal with feelings or a situation and I wanted to eat, it was hard for me to think it was okay to eat, because I felt it was the wrong reason. At the same time, eating while emotional and receiving the benefit of calmness afterwards was also ok, as long as I was aware of the connection. It still boggles my mind that eating is not an absolute thing, it is a nourishment and flows like the tide. To understand that it is all about mindfulness and not about rules of conduct is still a very hard concept for me. Sometimes I feel like I am grasping at something too elusive.

From: josiesjunkmail

Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 7:59 PM

To: IntuitiveEating_Support

Subject: Re: Some of my favorite quotes...

Hi ,I think you are on to something there. I have been aware of the concept of emotional eating for ages, perhaps decades. But until earlier this year, I would have sworn up and down on a stack of bibles to anyone that would listen, that I was not emotional eater. I started IE in July, started reading Geneen Roth's books in about August, and started working with a therapist that specializes in eating disorders and IE in October. Now, I find it amazing that I never realized what an emotional eater I am. I posted in my blog in November about how I was struggling with a problem and trying not to eat over it and trying to resist, but when I finally gave in and went and had a big 's feast, I could literally feel myself being so much calmer immediately afterward. It

was the first time that the effect was so pronounced to me, perhaps because I'm becoming more attuned to my body. That said, I'm still far from accomplished in this. I think we all have to just slog through and figure it out little by little.It is very very difficult work through, and if you are at all impatient, like I am, that amps up the stress because it feels like it will never happen. Keep at it. We're all here to support you. Don't know if that helps at all, but sometimes it just helps to know that others are experiencing the same thing.Josie

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I think the media and all the diet books ever written brainwashed us all into thinking there were “right†foods to eat. Because we want to believe that something outside ourselves will take care of the problem for us, we relied on the “diet†to take care of us. I became a vegetarian for 11 years, truly believing that by just giving up meat my weight would return to normal. It sounded like the right kind of diet. I didn’t factor in all the cakes, donuts and ice cream as possible culprits in my continuing struggle with obesity! lol. I also followed several other diets that practically became cult like because people would use the diet as part of their identity. So much power we give food and the ideas they represent. So many labels and categories. why, people actually wear restaurant logo’s on their clothing to identify with a brand name! They buy food and drink merchandise, because it become a part of an identity. I never understood it, but there it is and it permeates everything we think about food and eating.

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From: Doe

Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:56 AM

To: IntuitiveEating_Support

Subject: Re: Re: Some of my favorite quotes...

Wow Food is not the solution to the problem That's wild. I always thought if somehow

I could eat the ":right " foods that would solve my overeating problem. But apparently it hasn't