Now salad is something I'm loving now. I never use to eat it and with Blue Cheese Dressing too. I never liked that kind. I love it now. I just made a chicken cutlet sandwich with lots of lettus and a smear of Blue Cheese dressing on a nice fresh roll. I had chips on the side too. Ok, here comes the amazement part....I only ate half the sandwich and a few chips then I was done. I wrapped the rest of the sandwich up for tomorrow if I want it. I felt my hunger was gone and I stopped eating. WHAT A VICTORY! I think I'm getting the hang of this now.

Button- when I overeat like like that and feel terrible, I try to remeber that feeling the next time I am tempted to overeat. I know it is easier said than done. The problem I have with IE is that I can eat foods that I really enjoy, because of that I have a hard time stopping when the food tastes so good.

Captain Ladybug - the book Intuitive Eating is also a great book to read

I have always failed on diets becasue I don't care for vegetables and generally hate salad. Probably because you are eating exactly what you savor, your hunger is satisfied more easily. Who can think of salad when there are so many other wonderful things to eat. LOL

Thansk Lisainchicago I'll definately put that one on my list too.

Has anyone else discoverd things they use to love when dieting or doing another program that now doing IE you can't stand?

There is hardly a food I don't like!!!! Sorry. When I was a kid I hated Chinese food but Mom made me eat it. ha!

I think every day with IE is learning because there are a lot of nuances and rituals to eating that you don't think of when you are relearning to eat.
For example: Old ritual- When you go off campus for training, eat out, eat junk food. Today I went to training at another campus. I thought about getting junk food, but I didn't feel like it. I thought about going out to eat and pigging out, but it was fine to stay on campus and get a sandwich in the cafeteria. When I got home this afternoon, I really wanted to go out to eat to relieve the stress from the day. I wanted to comfort myself with food. Then I asked myself, do you really want to do that? The answer was no, and I fixed dinner at home. There are so many ways I used to reward myself with food that I am unlearning. And it is getting easier!
One thing that happens that isn't so wonderful is when I introduce a once "forbidden" food back into my diet. Usually I overeat that food the first time I let it back in my life. I try to eat it again shortly after the overeating session so that the second time I allow myself to have it, the memory of the overeating is still present in my mind and I don't want to repeat it. The "second" eating is always much more controlled. I might even be able to realize at that point that that food isn't quite as wonderful as I once thought. I guess I wanted to tell everyone that it is normal to have a little over eating during food reintroduction, but it won't continue with that food.

I love reading all your posts. It gives me such hope that I can do this.

Anyway, I've been reading Intuitive Eating again, and I ordered the Overfed Head.

It's been easy for me to eat intuitively these past few days because I haven't been feeling well (a cold), so I mostly haven't even felt like eating.

I am hungry tonight, though, and my husband suggested stir fry. Now, I really like stir fry, but it's something I ate a lot when I was trying to lose weight. So, to me, it's like a "diet food". I thought about what I really wanted to eat, and what I never would have eaten during a diet, and that's what we're eating!!

Since everyone is talking about the overfed head, I went and read part of the first chapter last night... Now I'll HAVE to buy it I started thinking about how I am doing well at meal time but I started wondering whether I am really waiting until I am hungry to eat. My mom happened to give me a copy of "Weigh Down" ages ago and I never read it. I started glancing through it, and it is a form of IE. It talks a lot about waiting for the feeling of hunger before you eat. My goal over the next few days is really going to be learning to listen and feel true hunger. I have to laugh... my old goals used to be lose x number of pounds. This goal is so much more attainable and realistic. My self esteem isn't on the line!

Anyone want to add to the list?---
Foods that used to be wonderful that aren't so wonderful now since working through IE... (for me)
Breakfast sausage
brownies
chicken nuggets from McDonalds
cheap cookies ($1 pack with chocolate and vanilla)

McDonalds anything...had an emergency food shortage on the way to work with my Trainer the other day... was starving, but didnt want to eat too close to working out, so I had to pick something that I could have in my hand in just a few minutes...got a kids meal...ate 1/2 the "hamburger" and was just repulsed...had heartburn later....and honestly I think I ate more later in the day trying to get rid of the heartburn...i.e. my tummy hurts, Ill try to put some more food on it to settle it....needless to say it didnt work, but made me wonder how often I had done this in the past...ate because my stomach was upset...and how much sense does that make??? doh.

How long has everyone been doing IE, and what got you interested?

I've only been doing it since Tuesday, but I've known about it for a long time. About 10 years ago I read a review about the book Intuitive Eating, and as I was living out of the country (also before Amazon) I had my sister send it to me. It all made so much sense; unfortunately, I didn't stick with it. I did lose about 10lbs while using the principles of IE about 7 years ago, but it didn't stick. I think back then I wanted faster weight loss, and couldn't get out of the diet mentality. I think I'm ready this time.

Any kind of meat (I was a low carb person, and now I have a freezer full of meat and no desire to cook it.

Salads

Fast Food

Cookies and sweets

Pasta (because I couldn't have it low carbing)

Thats all that comes to mind now.

Kinda of funny. I haven't had more than 4 or 5 hours sleep each night between working late and trying to get ready to go visit my BF this weekend (he lives 2 hours a way.) So Last night I had a taste for something that wasn't in my house. Meaning I knew I wanted something, but I knew whatever it was wasn't in my house. So I thought about all the fast food spots and wasn't interested. Then when I decided I was going to stop and and go to dunkin donuts. It was closed. Went to McDonalds and it was closed (i was kinda of focused at this point) but the drive through was open. So I get up to the speaker and all I ordered was an ice coffee. I ran through everything else (ice cream, pie...you get the idea) and just wasn't interested. I think my body knew I was tired, but since I still had stuff to do I needed some kind of boost.

It was kinda of nice to know that I could have a desire for sugar and not go overboard, and also that it is ok to trust myself.

I've really been more serious about it since I read The Overfed Head. That must have been about a month or 2 ago. I kind of laugh when I see the posts for loosing so much by a certain date here. That's how I ALWAYS used to think. Now I don't think like that anymore. I think that kind of thinking is contrary to IE. Years ago I read Jean Antonello's book Naturally Thin by Eating More but she limits what she calls pleasure foods so that one never worked for me. Then about 8 yr ago I read Weigh Down but was always stuck on eating half of what I would normally eat which is what she suggested. Praying is part of life for me so that wasn't the problem. The idea of eating between hunger and fulness is just so sensible and Rob Stevens covers just about every question you might have on it. (The Overfed Head) I've seen a few other books but haven't purchased them yet. Yahoo has several IE groups that are interesting, too.