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Thanks, Becky, I even figured out how to do a partial quote. I'm so excited. ha!

Good Morning all. Hubby and I had our weekly weigh in. He gained .25 and I stayed the same, was hoping for a loss, but at least no gain. Getting ready to read Eat what you love, love what you eat. Sounds interesting. Have a blessed day. Tammy

Tammy, I've read some many IE books that I'm starting to forget which ones I've read. Is that one by Michell May, M.D.?

Yes it is, her first one if I understand correctly was called Am I Hungry? and this is the updated expaned version of that book. I just finished Think Thin, Be Thin, it was interesting. Have a blessed day.

Tammy, let us know how you like the book. I can't get over how hungry I get when it is so cold outside.....minus 15 at night. I posted awhile back how that does really affect us but don't know how far back the article is. ha!

I have also read that the temperature affects our eating. Will let you know how I like the book, have not started it yet.

If you find an article on the cold and eating will you post it? Thanks.

Good morning,
I haven't posted since my joining day, but wanted to get back to y'all and this thread again..

I guess I need to vent a bit, or just express some things as they relate to intuitive/mindful/true-thinny eating. I don't know if anyone else here has gone through this.

The times in my life when I did eat intuitively were times when I felt "safe" or had more general emotional support from friends/family or felt "secure". Clearly, those times were too far and few between. But I do have an idea of what it is like to eat to live rather than live to eat.

I really want to get back to eating like that---just eating like a normal person. (Rather than snarfing food while I watch TV or sit at the computer. I coined the word "snarf" because I used to own a terrier that ate so fast he could snif and "scarf" in one gulp.)

I have the additional challenge of having to eat a controlled carb/ 4+ meals a day plan for health reasons. I just want to get to where I can enjoy what I eat, and cook it to taste as good as possible---in lieu of controlled carbs. It's like an eating "double challenge".

But has anyone here in the past found that when you are in a happier phase of your life, it is so much easier to eat normally>? And when in the harder phases of life---food is a diversion?

and what books would you say helped you the most? I own the "7 Secrets of Thin People" book, and "When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies". Both are very good.

Thanks for listening,
Happy Tummy

Oh, yes, it is easier to eat normally when things are going well. And food can be a stress tamer even if your just bored. My favorite book is The Overfed Head by Rob Stevens.

I went back to the first post of Intuitive Eating #13 and found the articles on eating and cold plus some others I'm going to reread.

Yes! When I was dating my husband, it was effortless for me to eat normally. I had just gotten down to a very decent weight for myself, and my husband to be made me feel pretty and cherished.

Fast forward a few years, and life's stresses and problems--with a bad thyroid thrown in--and I've put on 130lbs since being with my husband.

I ended 2010 with a loss, for the whole year, of--wait for it--FIVE pounds! Yup, a lousy five pounds.

Better than my usual gain, I suppose.

This year I really hope to make some progress, a little more than five pounds would be nice.

Becky, you didn't gain and you lost 5lb. I'll be praying for you for a bigger loss next year.

Eden Diet, OVerfed Head, I can make you thin, Intuitive eating,think thin, be thin and now eat what you love, love what you eat. This is my IE library, I am getting to the point of, ok, Tammy, how many books do you think you need to read that all more or less say the same thing! I mean there are just so many ways that you can put IE, I just keep praying that one day the little light bulb will go off and I can say "NOW I get it!!! Have a blessed day.

Seems like you can learn a little something new from each book. Just now reading Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salads and learned that starving yourself doesn't work......it backfires. I noticed a few months ago I was waiting sometimes until afternoon to eat even though I was really hungry. It didn't work. There is something about keeping the blood sugar even that helps with weight loss.