Re: Hi, I am new to this group

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Thanks Kate, very rarely right now do I get time to have a meal with no distractions. My children are home for the summer and that makes it challenging. I have more time when they are in school but I just do my best to try to slow down and focus on my body. I am more comfortable today than I was for the first few days, I think I was just uncomfortable with changing my behavior back to intuitive eating. Thanks again for your support.To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Tue, June 22, 2010 5:22:25 AMSubject: Re: Hi, I am new to this group

Welcome to the group! I would be glad if we could all save you $100. I'm sure there are some great new clothes you could buy yourself that make you feel beautiful! I think it's great you noticed what you were doing when you were eating. I'm curious if you are able to have one meal alone per day without anyone's demands on you, so that you can experience the joy of food without distractions?KateHello 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. I live in Maui now and I just spoke with my nutritionist the other day for the first time in yrs. I have decided I am going back to the beginning with the IE, I am letting go and allowing myself to eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it. Its been really uncomfortable doing this, change always is, but I also feel a small amount of freedom from it too. I noticed the first night when I sat down to dinner with the family I wasn't hungry but I ate anyway, not sure what that was all about. The second night I sat down for dinner with the family I

noticed that I was eating really really fast, i've noticed that at other meals too. So tonight when I sat down for dinner I noticed I was eating fast and slowed down a bit. I am also reading the new Geneen Roth book everyone else is talking about and using some of the tools in there, such as The Voice. Just wanted to take the time to introduce myself and I could write a lot more about what is going on in my life but will save that for other posts as I have already written so much. Definately looking for support and a community of IE so I can have people to talk to about it without having to pay my nutritionist $100 a pop! lol!Thanks so much, Tana