A Nice Thing Happened
 

So Usually when I have scale issues I wanna starve myseld and run 20 miles a day (total unrelastic). So this time I am sticking to the IE and walking in the morning (I have a 100 mile goal, right now.)

Anyway I walked 4 miles this morning, wasn't as horrible as i thought it would be. Had half a subway sandwich and some orange juice and I am ok. So my boss brings in his left over halloween candy and leaves it in my office (i share with 3 other people). At first I was horrified by the temptation then all I could think was I didn't just walk 4 miles :exercise: to waste it all on that junk.:nono: (i wish they had a talk to the hand smiley)

anyway, hope everyone else is having a good day.:carrot:

Good for you, Obi! Way to go!

Hi, everyone. We were away for the weekend and I made a few good decisions. One time I ordered a kids meal and another I insisted the my dh share with me. Then when everyone was ordering my favorite ice cream whcih I can only get about once every 2 yr. (Baskin Robbins........we don't live anywhere near one of their stores) I declined because I was full. Hope I can keep up with this because I'm like you, Obi, I want to fast and get thin quick. Thanksgiving brings a whole lot of relatives we hardly ever see and sure wish I could lose some weight quick. But I know better then that.......for now at least. ha!

Hey everyone!

It's been a while since I logged onto this thread and wanted to say hi and see how you all were doing?

Things are going a little slow here but I still enjoy everyone's posts and sharing ideas. I am rereading Naturally Thin by Eating More by Jean Antonello. It was my favorite health book before The Overfed Head. Wish I would have stuck to it all the years since I read it. I remember talking to Jean once and she told me it would take about 5 yr. to lose the 50lb I needed to lose. I thought that was way to long. Those 5 yr. went by so fast. I should have taken her word for it. Another question I think I might have asked before. As we get older I think we wake up more at night and sometimes I am so hungry I can't get back to sleep. Does this happen to anyone else?

Yes. I eat a piece of fruit and drink some water, then go back to sleep.

Thanks, Fidder, that is reassuring.

Well, I've said this before but maybe this thread is winding down. I know there is a lot of info out there just now about IE but I don't suppose many people are taking it seriously. Last fall there was quite a few articles by Stephen Hawks on IE and he said he was writing a book but I've never seen hide nor hare of it. I just think there has to be another way out there besides struggling so to lose weight. After all, as kids and even for some of us young adults we didn't struggle. All I know is that after I began reading diet book after diet book my problem got much worse. As Jean Antenello puts it....."There are other things to think about."

I think the thread will never be as active as others because there isn't alot to it. No rules. I don't have strange headaches or aches or wondering if I am eating too much or too little or the right thing, or the wrong thing. I don't have all the questions I would have with everything else.

I do think you should leave the thread up. For the moment when you eat too much ice cream and you need some accountability or just a question about how other deal with different situations.

Just seems the longer you are on IE, and the more confortable you get...working out what is good for you...the less you need to question.

-Obie

I think maybe "Intuitive Eating" isn't an intuitive enough title for some people. If you've read the book, you know what it is, but if you haven't it's not immediately clear what intuitive eating means. Maybe a title like "Dieting Without Rules" or "Non-Dieting" or "Losing Without Dieting" would be more effective.

I don't think it's so much the questioning but the reassurance from others that they are going through some of the same things......like being hungry in the night. Thanks again, Fiddler.

Well I have been eating ok, although funny thing has been happening. Since I've been cooking at home more, I have been eating a little more because it tastes so good. I've stuck to increasing the miles although not everyday. 4 miles ever other day and no knees pain and i feel good.

Ok, now for my question with most diets you you have specific foods to eat and I try and have diet soda when I want something bubbly. Do you still eat low fat, low carb, weight watchers or do you go for the regular version of whatever it is?

I've often questioned the wisdom of a message board or even a thread for people who have given up dieting, but on the other hand I long to talk to people who know what I am going through. Lord knows it is near impossible to find it in "real life". But to think about it enough to write about it, does that constitute obsessing about food?

In just over a week I will be visiting family who tend to be very judgmental as far as weight. I am the only overweight one. I think I have gained about 30 pounds since I last saw them and I am not proud. They will not appreciate the progress I've made in my head.

Between our upcoming trip and my husband being sent out of town on the spur of the moment, I binged a little the last two days. I don't feel secure in our house and so I am very nervous of crime when he is gone (not that he would be a good protector as he sleeps through everything - ha). Plus I usually travel with him and worry when he is gone.

Anyway, I ate when I wasn't hungry and ate past full, and was not willing to stop and think about it. Well, my husband returned today, then today my period started (surprise) and that probably was a big contributor because today was completely normal as far as food, and I would even call it a light appetite day.

Fiddler and Carol, I wake up in the night sometimes because I need to use the restroom or if I do not put my wrist braces on (carpal tunnel, I think) my arms hurt. My thoughts often turn to food. I don't indulge everytime now, but I wonder why it is so hard to just lay down and go to sleep. Seems like it always has to be something, food or tv, I guess I haven't mastered "just being".

I need to work on things.

The thing with me is that I am REALLY hungry when I wake at night....so much so that I can't sleep and get nauseous. I don't think it is the prednisone now because I'm on a really low dose. I am really having trouble being hungry in the evening and on and am raveonus by morning. This is real hunger I'm talking aboiut and not craving. My craving for sweets is nearly past. Obi, I posted a thread about splenda because as hard as I try to use it it makes me sick. Guess others have the same problelm I think soda sometimes has nutrasweet but I don't drink soda just cause I'm not crazy about it. After I eat breakfast, I'm usually satisfied until lunch but by 4pm the hunger starts in again. I can't get insurance because of long time health problems and don't like to go to the dr. anyway so stay away as much as possible. They usually don't have answers about silly things like hunger. Also most of the time I buy real foods. Just don't like the low carb, low fat things.

I just ordered the Overfed Head and I can't wait to read it. I've read Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, which I loved, so I can't wait to get Rob Steven's book. Obsidian I know you've read it, has anyone else? What did everyone think?