Re: New member looking for support

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Thanks for your note. It is nice to know that there is another individual that

is starting out on this journey also. I am sure that if we are patient and keep

working the IE way, we also will be able to master this food issue! I am

grateful for those who have also struggled,but, also have found some victory

along the way and it is an encouragement to know that we will ge there too. I

am looking forward to that day when all of a sudden I realize that, most of the

time, the fight is gone! I am waiting for my books to arrive in the mail.

Probably a good thing as I am working on a master's degree and supposed to be

reading many text books at the moment ... in fact I have a paper due on Tuesday

and you have just now given me a bit of a reprieve from working on it! LOL ...

so here I go, back at it.

Blessings on your journey, we are in this together.

Carolyn

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> I was very happy to find this group. I just read Intuitive Eating and it was

as though it was written just for me:) As a dieter for most of my life, I am

just starting out on the IE journey. It is very difficult to let go of the goal

of weight loss since I have a significant amount of weight that I'd like to

lose. When I first read the book I felt an amazing freedom, but putting it into

practice is a different story - it is scary to give yourself permission to eat

what you want after so many years of eating what someone else told you you

should eat, followed by rebellion and eating whatever was in sight because I

wasn't supposed to.

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> After my first week of giving myself freedom to eat whatever I wanted (and

overeating many times), I am now ready to begin to " honor my hunger " and " feel

my fullness " while eating the foods I want to eat. Any suggestions and helpful

hints from the group would be welcome. Tonight I left several bites of my

dinner on my plate because I was physically satisfied, but it was very hard. I

was proud of myself, but also feel kind of weak ... shouldn't it be easier to

refuse a few bites? I'm sure many of you have felt the same way ...

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> Anyway, glad to have this group to talk and share tips along the way.

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