I started reading The Eden Diet and found the workbook and decided that since my attitude has changed that I am so ready to study this book. So I am starting it today.
Tammy Are you doing The Eden Diet/workbook?
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Sonia wrote...While I agree with the need to distinguish between physical and psychological hunger, I'm not convinced by the idea of "unmet psychological needs
Sonia - Your reasoning is interesting. However, in my own experience, I personally had a lot of psychological/emotional eating myself which was caused by different things and situations that happened to me in my life. Learning what the psychological/emotional triggers were has helped a lot to get control of my eating for which I am so thankful.
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Frome the article Carolrshared... So, why did intuitive eating work this time when it’s destroyed my abs so many times before? I’ve been trying to figure that out. I know that in the past I’ve used intuitive eating as an excuse to binge. I’d turn to it after a bout of really restrictive dieting and go right back to obsessive dieting, tracking and measuring. I wrote down every single thing I ate or drank. That was not fun, and actually not helpful.
I’m more relaxed now. I don’t make food decisions from a place of frustration and panic. My intuition really likes strawberries. I eat chocolate every day. I like to eat out. I’m not limiting myself to dieter food but I’m very aware of portions.
Last time I tried intuitive eating, portion control was my downfall. I believed those books that said to eat as many cookies as I wanted and that eventually I wouldn’t want as many. Right!! Weeks later, I still wanted every cookie that had ever been baked. I was reeling out of control on a blood sugar rollercoaster. The more junk I ate, the more junk I wanted. I was never able to pull it together enough to even maintain my weight, much less lose.
In some ways and a few changes, I could have written this myself. I believe I also used IE to binge in the past. For me it is potato chips not cookies. I'm like an alcoholic with chips... once they are open, I can't put them down until I eat them all. Now I'm more relaxed and I know I can eat whatever I want except I have to admit that at this point "potato chips" are one thing I cannot eat because it turns into a binge. My attitude now is that I can eat whatever I want, whenever I want. It doesn't have to be meal time or snack time. I don't eat 3x a day or 2-3 snacks each day. I eat when I am hungry. Sometimes, I think of something I want to eat, but I am busy so I wait until I'm through with what I'm doing only to realize that I've that I have forgotten what I was going to eat and what I thought was hunger is totally gone.
Carolr You have no idea how this article has helped me. It came just when I needed it to show me that while I don't want to get into rules too much with IE, I love the way this writer has found ways to make IE work for him/her and confirms for me that some of the things he/she is doing that I do myself will work. I think we do learn or create little things I have read that others do or have done. For example, I try to leave at least 1 bite of food on my plate to re-enforce the idea that I DO NOT have to eat everything on my plate. However, it is not a hard fast rule written in stone, because if I really want to eat everything, I do.
I've come to believe that Intuitive Eating is a personal thing that we have to make our own and learn to do it the way it fits us and our lifestyle.