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Originally Posted by jensassy
Hello everyone - it was a long weekend full of family stuff, so I'm just catching up.
@wannabeskinny: You are so lucky to have a great support system! As far as your other question. I pretty much eat fast. Always have and I try to slow down but I need to do a better job so I can read my fullness factor better but I'm working on it.
@pinkhippie: holy cow - that is some awesome stuff - congrats! You go girl!
@suzie2535: welcome! we all start somewhere!
@locke: I've been feeling the same. I'm eating more smaller meals on IE and I'm getting annoyed. why am I eating so often and when will it stop for cripes sake or am I just being a pill about it? I hope your cold gets better soon!
I'm having a super hard time. The thoughts of having to or needing to lose weight are completely plaguing me (PMS?). I have been eating IE and then 2nd guess myself and now I'm wondering if I'm not eating when I'm hungry because I'm scared of overeating. Like right now, I'm hungry but I don't know what I want so maybe I should just skip it but then it's been over 3 hours since I ate. Sometimes it's just all so confusing and I want to go back to what I know - dieting, counting calories, counting points, etc... I know I need to get through this rough patch but holy crap, it's hard. I want to hear success stories about people who have lost 100s of lbs and live a "free from food obsession" but I'm not finding many and then I stumble upon message boards that say IE is crap and it doesn't work and that we are all broken and really never could ever know if and when we are hungry. All and all I'm moving forward because I cannot live the way I was before - it sucked more than these feelings are sucking right now. so let's just say -I'm having a bad day. blech
You need validation that you are doing a good job. Losing weight provides that, doesn't it? It's so nice to have someone notice you and say "what's your secret?" Well, that doesn't happen with IE. You lose weight so slowly that almost nobody notices. I've been doing this since February and I've only lost 10lbs.
Then there is the other external factors that seemingly help - the calorie counting apps, the food logs, the weigh ins, the accountability we so crave to help us get motivated. None of that exists in IE.
Ok so I'm not a success story - at least not a 100lb success story. BUT, I eat whatever I want, whenever I want it with virtually no guilt. I feel comfortable feeling the feelings I have, I am comfortable around food, I am ok if someone steal my chips, I'm ok if dinner is not ready yet, I'm ok if my son takes all the french fries off my plate. I have no emotions towards food other than pleasure. I don't look much different but I feel like the girl in the "after" picture. I feel it way down deep inside. I know that I'm not going to binge today. I know that I'm not going to binge tomorrow and possibly never again, but on the chance that I do I welcome it and hope that I try to at least enjoy it for what it's worth. I don't hate the person in the mirror. It may not be a huge success story but I feel successful.
omg everyone, I'm actually contemplating wearing a bikini to the beach this summer. Is that crazy????