Either the planets were aligned perfectly or Intuitive Eating was starting to kick in - I wasn't hungry for supper yesterday, either. I just picked at the little I had on my plate and realized it was stupid to eat when I wasn't hungry, so I quit.
Good for you!! Welcome to our group. I love your screen name. That's the same way I feel - I am never going to give until I beat this thing
Carol, you are my hero for not eating dinner because you weren't hungry!! *high five* That's so awesome!!
Ok...I really really really could use some encouragement! I was HIT with some threatening diet stuff. LOL!
1. I read some stuff on the internet criticising eating intuitively.
2. I weighed myself the other day and had gained 2 pounds.
3. The juicing/raw foods diet has knocked at my diet door again, telling me that it's the only way to be healthy. (I've dealt with this issue before and it totally set me back and I started dieting again).
I've been sticking with IE for the most part. It's not always easy. Part of the problem is that food never starts to taste bland. I over did it at lunch and honestly that last bite of hot dog and fries tasted just as delicious as the first! I was also having a bit of the "I paid for it I can't waste it" mentality. It's hard to throw away food, especially tasty food.
Sabrina,
This seems to be the one drawback with IE. On a positive note, we can eat whatever we want. The negative side is that it tastes so good I don't want to stop eating it. I also have a hard time throwing away food. I feel like I am throwing away money. I also look at that the medium and the large fries, coke etc. Many times the price is not that much more. We have to just work on it, it will get better. We can do this! Yesterday is gone and today is a new day. We cannot get rid of all of our habits overnight.
I have not been that good with eating but have been great with working out with the Turbo Jam DVDs. I look at this as a positive.
Hi ladies! Eating was fine today until my sister's husband called and asked me to come to their house and be there when my sister got home from work because her french bulldog died today. After seeing her crushed I lost my appetite. Then we got home and I ate a few pieces of french bread, some chips, and 3 tootsie pops. I know I'm eating to numb the pain, but I don't know what else to do. My sister kept looking at me and her husband asking us if we were kidding, etc. She started shaking and stuff. She doesn't have kids and her 3 dogs are her babies. Toby was only 5 years old. I guess I haven't eaten the whole house, but mostly I am disappointed that I know I'm not so hungry but I can't think of any other way to cope right now. I am going to quit eating now. I should have just come here an vented in the first place. New strategy: Vent first when stressed out to get a level head!!!!!
runnin' momma: I'm sorry about your sister's dog. Our cat is a member of our family and it would break my heart to lose her. I'm not an expert, but it seems to me when instant stress hits, our old coping mechanisms return with a vengeance. We're not intuitive eaters yet. I know I'm taking baby steps and I count small victories: Not eating an hour after breakfast, not having fries with a sandwich for lunch, not eating while I'm washing dishes, and scaling back from what I usually ate. A few pieces of french bread, some chips and three Tootsie Pops? In my book, you handled it pretty well; it could have been worse. You stopped the process! That's a victory! Intuitive eating is going to take time and I'm not going to beat myself up anymore. I'm going to count my small victories.
2stubborn, Thanks for the support and reminder that we are still toddlers in this process.
Carol, I am so sorry. As the other ladies have said, my thoughts and prayers are with you. Please lean on us as you need to.
carolr3639: I'm sorry about your Mom. My Mom died 18 years ago and my mind can still replay the time from when the call came from the hospital to when we cleaned out her apartment - and I was the last one out. I've got to sign off now; my eyes are getting misty. We're here for you.
i have been reading about intuitive eating and am very interested. my body, however, is very sensitive to carbs. i am diabetic. i tried to begin "legalizing" certain foods and it was not very pretty. my dr and i have worked a way so that i have more flexibility, however, i do need to lose weight for my health. i feel awful after i binge on carbs. have any of you combined ie with a particular food plan. maybe using the plan as a guideline, but not being rigid. i read in "diets don't work" that a woman did ie with ww, using ww as baseline, allowing for different foods some times. thanks in advance for your assisstance.
Hey all. I wanted to put a book list together in one place for my own reference and figured I'd share. These are books that have been mentioned here in this thread or elsewhere that I've found. Let me know about others and I'll add to the list.
Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers. My mom died in my home, even though the rescue squad was called. She went quickly with a heart attach. I find it interesting that when under heavy sorrow, food just doesn't taste good even though I am eating. I suppose this is natural. Jasmine, I think there are health issues that all of us will have sometime in life that will effect our eating. I have sarcoidosis, a lung disease, that causes high blood calcium so I can't have anything with calcium in it, although my dr. did say that there is some in everything, just to be as careful as possible. Maybe your situation is similar in that your body cannot handle certain food. Just a thought.
I was also having a bit of the "I paid for it I can't waste it" mentality. It's hard to throw away food, especially tasty food.
lots of questions???
my dr and i have worked a way so that i have more flexibility, however, i do need to lose weight for my health. i feel awful after i binge on carbs. have any of you combined ie with a particular food plan. maybe using the plan as a guideline, but not being rigid. i read in "diets don't work" that a woman did ie with ww, using ww as baseline, allowing for different foods some times. thanks in advance for your assisstance.
