Obsidianbbw, you work the late shift and up at 6am? How do you do that? Sounds like everyone is working out their quirks with intuitive eating. I would have to vote for Rob Stevens book, too, especially since he lost 140lb doing it!!! I lost those couple of lb from the hungries I had earlier in the week so am happy about that. Eating went pretty well yesterday but I am still waking early and mighty hungry. I am not a big breakfast eater, never have been. I used to drive my mom nuts until she started letting me eat vegetable soup and other non-breakfast foods. That was back in the day when I weighed 115 and the thought used to cross my mind that if I ever got over 120 I would just die!!!!!!! That was a longgggggggggg time ago. ha! Never gave a thought to what I ate then. Most of my trouble started when I went on birth control and then started having children. Well, that was a long time ago, too. Guess I've been searching for intuitive eating for quite awhile. I read Jean Antonello's book Natuarally Thin by Eating More almost 20 yr. ago but she was really against what she called pleasure foods ( only eat them occasionally ) so I never got the concept down pat. The Overfed Head is the best I have read and I think I have read thousands of diet books.
Today is the first full day of IE. After I read this thread I started right away. It was so great when I woke up this morning I first thought of how many Points and i having etc. Now don't get me wrong WW is a great program and I lost a ton of weight on it but for me personally I can't keep counting everything and have my life revolve around food. Anyway I woke up this morning and after I got past the I'm not counting anything today thought I asked am I ready to eat breakfast? and to my surprise the answer was no. When I was ready I had a slice of french toast and coffee, I split an apple with my daughter for a snack and had a sausage and pepper wrap and a yogurt for lunch. I am completely satisfied and not stressed and not stuffed. The portions were definately smaller then I normally had in the pas too.
I know it's really only one day but I'm really enjoying the freedom of choosing something healthy because it's my choice not because I have too.
So, thanks again for all your great info on the books - I'll definately be checking them all out and keeping in touch - love this thread!
Obsidianbbw - I'm definately keeping active. Just by doing stuff around the house and walking on the treadmill or taking my daughter for a walk. I'm trying to approach it like the food though - with no stress - But saying to myself the more active I am the better I'll feel (no necessarily saying "if I'm active I'll lose weight - too much pressure for me at this point)
Working on trying to replace the old diet mentality of calories with this new way of intuitive eating as well as adding "intuititve activity" I guess it's all in how you look at it and approach it.
[QUOTE=Obsidianbbw;1389558]I have another need to eat when I get to work. I think it is just the habit of eating a meal before i start work. So I eat when I get to work, but moderatly and try to make sure I include vegetable and healty stuff.
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Welcome to our goup. I also think I eat out of habit. Normaly when I get home from work, I am instantly hungry. I think I just need to resist the urge.
Welcome, Obsidianbow. I think you would enjoy reading The Overfed Head by Rob Stevens. It is short, to the point and full of encouragement. Fiddler, I'm with you on home cooked food. I have 10 kids and live 30 mi from any fast food place. I have a big garden but only 1 kid at home so I need to cut back one of these years. Today I put up 16qt of tomatoes and 14 of beans. I usually do 100 of both except for last summer when I was ill. Most of my kids don't have gardens yet so they enjoy the produce. I think we did 90 qt of corn (frozen). The corn is put in the ground by machine. It fills the whole east side of the garden. We had good strawberries this year, too. But after cooking all these years (been married 37 yr.) I sometimes wish someone would just tell me what to fix!!!
My mom has a very small garden. Right now we are swiming in tomatoes and cucumbers!
My suggestion would be to keep making your fried chicken at home, BUT use whole wheat flour instead of white flour to bread it, fry it in canola oil, and keep the salt to a minimum. Then accompany it with some healthy, naturally low-calorie foods like steamed asparagus with lemon and baked sweet potatoes. You CAN have your fried chicken and eat it too.
Thanks Fiddler and Carol on the tips. I am going to try them. I guess the fustrating part is not loosing. I am slowly but surely making better choices. A friend - who does not have a weight problem - gave a small plate that she uses to eat all her meals from. I am going to try it to control my portions.
Hi ladies,
Tonight was my first night of graduate school and I was so nervous. The minute class was over I wanted to go somewhere and get something to eat to comfort myself. I decided to just go on home since I knew I wasn't really hungry in such a way that I needed to go binge. I went home and fixed a couple of eggs and a piece of sausage and put it in a tortilla. It was a perfect dinner. Yeah!!! It used to be a losing battle fighting my mind when I was tempted to just fill myself up. The urge tonight was much more of a passing thought than an all out war that I used to have. Baby steps!
Way to go Kay! I also attend graduate school but do it online. Univ. of Phoenix. Let me tell you it is a lot of work. I am so tired of writing papers. I only have two more classes to go. Should be done 4/07.
Just thought I'd pop my head in to say "hello!" (That is, is you guys have room for one more person intruiged by IE.)
I lost a great deal of weight following gastric bypass. Unfortunately, surgery didn't fix my head, and I ended up regaining some of the weight. So, I started researching diets, and just knew I couldn't go that route again. So I came upon IE, and honestly, nothing makes more sense in my quest to lose the remaining weight.
I was glad to see this thread. So much of the rest of the boards are geared to dieting. (No, not again!)
~Alex
Welcome Lillybet,
I was schedule for lap band surgery a year ago but chickened out a week before. It all came back to I had to get my eating under control and have sense vowed never to diet again. I remeber the doctor saying the surgery is just a tool, not a cure.
Hi everyone. I'm checking in! Hello to the new folks. I've been sick the last few days so I haven't been on at all. I will say that it's a lot easier to stay "on program" with IE when you're sick than it is when you're doing WW. On WW everything would fly out the window when I was sick because really who wants to keep track of how many points in orange juice you're downing? I'm also down 13 pounds overall since starting. I think some of that may be water weight since lately all I've been doing is drinking water and OJ!
Way to Sabrina. I would give anything to have lost 13 pounds. I have only lost about 5. Welcome everyone. The key to IE is to only eat when you are hungry, eat exactly what you want, and stop eating at the first sign of fullness.
Also wondering are you doing anything else (i.e. excercise, low carb, low fat) or are you just focusing on eating till you satisfied.
I eat mostly whole foods because that is what I like and I do not feel as good physically when I eat processed foods. I also work out at the gym 3-4 times a week and walk 10 miles a week. I try to consciously do things that will raise my metabolism so that I can burn more calories. That's about it.
In June of 04 after trying diet after diet, I stumbled across a book by Gwen Shamblin called The Weigh Down Diet. Her approach is very similiar to IE. It is absolutely fabulous. To date I have lost 89 pounds. It is a slow process..but the freedom I feel finally from food is amazing.
This is the key to permanent weight-loss IMO. Freedom to eat whatever you want...just mentally knowing that nothing is off limits. I highly recommend this to anyone who has a serious food addiction and feels lost.
IE and this book changed my life. It is an old book..which can be purchased on amazon for very cheap. I look forward to picking up another book on IE.
I just started a little job a couple of days a week and keep forgetting that I will need to bring a lunch....so, today...I had nothing. It is 2:45 and I am very hungry but I want to eat dinner with my family. I think I will go and have a couple of PB crackers to last me til dinner, and it will be an EARLY dinner.
I read something about fried chicken...I recently started breading ckn strips in corn flakes, flour and red pepper. I dip them in egg whites mixed with skim milk first then in the flour mix, spray a pan with butter flavored cooking spray and spray the strips, turn after about 15 mins and spray again and cook 10-15 mins more. I have to say I like these much better than fried chicken.
