Likenoother, The Overfed Head by Rob Stevens is a short and to the point IE book that you might like.

Thanks Carol, I forgot about that option. I will look that up too on Amazon. I went back and read the Intuitive Eating threads. I think I made it all the way through #3.

llavander. There are 4 other threads of IE under General Diet Plans but you can probably find them by typing intuitive eating into the search engine.

That's how I found the threads Carol. I just ordered Intuitive Eating by Tribole and whatever that other ladies name is...I was planning to order the Overfed Head too but I thought one book at a time. Amazon is always fast so I'm thinking it will be here next week. I'm excited. Doing pretty good so far today.

Hello Carol, likenoothe and llavander:

The Intuitive Eater by Tribole and Resch is the book I have and reading right now. It is good and I agree that Amazon is good at getting things to us faster. I think I ordered mine on a Friday and got it the following Monday or Tuesday. I have learned a lot from this book. Still reading it. You mentioned something about grazing in an earlier post. I have been thinking lately that I am a grazer and that I just might be able to make IE grazing work for me. You know I remember DH Mother telling me on time before she died that she heard Dolly Parton say she never lost weight until she went to 6 small meals a day. In the book I reading they mentioned two groups they tested. Both groups ate 1200 calories a day but one group ate 3 meals and the other one ate 6. The one who ate 6 lost more weight better than the ones who ate 3. I think it is worth the try.

Carol, I haven't been at this very long, but I think you had a good experience with the bread. We went out to Olive Garden with some friends a few weeks ago and DH and I shared a breadstick. There was a time I would have eaten 2 of them at least by myself. I wasn't even tempted. One other thing I learned about myself was this. I was dieting not doing IE. Normally (when not dieting) I would have brought half of my meal home and not eaten all of it. But since I was dieting (Low carb), I knew I wouldn't be eating noodles normally so I ate the whole thing. Over did it bcause I was "diet thinking" instead of "IE thinking". So I think IE was working for you.

Y'all have a good evening and weekend.

Thanks everyone. I found the other threads and did the 'subscribe' thing, so now I don't have to sort through every time I visit. Anything to make it simpler

Some days I eat hardly anything. Other days I eat a lot. I try not to eat the same amount or same foods every day because that seems to interfere with weight loss for me.

Carol, I started reading the old posts last night and didn't get very far, but I enjoyed the article that you posted of Steven Hawks (I think that was his name). It was really helpful, because I thought perhaps I should eat a certain way but thought of it more as a diet and of course I'm trying to get rid diet thinking. However, although he did not diet, he did use what he called "common sense" when it came to eating healthy. I like some of his thoughts and see how it works with IE. I plan to go through the other posts a little bit at a time as I think they will boost my learning to IE.

I have somewhat of a problem.......always being told not to waste food. To this day it really bothers me to throw food away. Sometimes when I am eating a leftover I wonder if it is going to make me ill! It doesn't taste bad but maybe I kept it too long. Fish and shrimp are real culprits. I've been sick on them several times, especially shrimp. Usually at restaurants, though. Years ago when we first moved to WI, DH and I went on a date to a nice restaurant and I ordered the trout which I loved (of course I was thin then). I don't know if it was the flu or food but the next day I was so sick I was hospitalized and I was nursing a 3 mo. old boy. I was in for 3 days since they were worried it might be gallbladder....it wasn't. I had diahrrea for 2 solid weeks. I've never had trout since.

Carol, I just read about that in my IE book last night. She said we need to realize that it is okay not to eat something even throw it out even if we try it and find out we don't like it. I know it is hard, but I remember someone saying at a meeting I attended to lose weight... they said "Better for it to be in the trash than me wearing it on my hips". For you it would be "Better for it to be in the trash than it making you sick".

There was a time I would eat for whatever reason... to much to throw out not enough to keep etc and then be so sick I couldn't sleep at night because of stuffed feeling or indigestion. One day I realized what I was doing and I prayed that if God would help me get through that night and get over the horrible sickness that I would never eat so much that I would be so miserable again. I've pretty much kept that promise I made to God and myself. This is one reason I don't like high fiber diets. Some times I feel that way from drinking too much water to fast and I still hate that feeling. I actually like the opposite feeling of not being hungry or stuffed.

I think part of IE is that we have to learn to be good to ourselves and eating things that make us sick for any reason we do it is not being good to ourself.
I ate fish in a stirfry I made tonight and I should have thrown it out because it tasted too fishy. I don't think it was bad, but I didn't like it. According to IE book, I did not do the right thing. I am paying the price too because I had to take Rolaids. In fact I have some more of that fish in the freezer and I am going to throw it away. It is all a process of learning. Hope you have a good evening.

Pattygirl--I ordered my book from Amazon yesterday and it shipped today. So I am figuring I will get it Wednesday at the latest. I'm a big believer in 6 meals. 3 meals and 3 snacks. I was eating every 2 hours. I'm working on eating the meals and snacks when hungry as opposed to "on schedule".

Carol--I don't even bring leftovers from restaurants because I never eat them. I have to be careful with making big servings of meals also because I live by myself--well my BF practically lives here too but he eats a mostly natural/organic/plant diet--and those leftovers go to waste too. I have no problem with throwing away food.

I was thinking that maybe we should do a monthly thread. That way they won't be so long. Maybe we can start in March? What do you think Carol since you are the veteran here? It can still be number 6 but with (March) in parentheses. Or like this:
Intuitive Eating #6--March 08

Sounds good Shay. We're headed, Lord willing, for Portland today to see my daughter and family so I might not be on here as much as usual. Vacations have always been another tough spot for me, eating wise. I pray that I can eat small amounts and maybe not even think about eating sometimes because of doing other things.

I actually do better on vacation trips. I think it is because DH and I eat only "what we want, when we want it (hungry) and never over eat". We are usually more active as well. LOL that sounds like IE doesn't it? WOW! What an eye opener; maybe all I have to do is learn to do at home what I do when traveling.

I'm new, as you know, but I was going to ask about the length of these threads, so I'm glad someone brought it up . I think a new one every month would be a good idea.

As far as IE progress, I'm doing okay - could be better. I'm trying to find where 'enough' is - I know that will be the difference for me between losing and staying where I am.

Carol--Okay so the first one on here March 1st can end #5 with a note to go to the new one. Then start the new one

llavender--I'm still working out the kinks myself. This license to eat what you want and when you want for someone that has always ate way past full has been a struggle. I know it will take some time but I am determined to do it. Using the IE book and Geneen Roth's learning packages will assist me with developing a healthy relationship with food.