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Thanks. I don't want to use Weigh Down as just another thing that can become more like a diet. The book Thin Within warns not to let the suggestions in the book become rules because if you do then it just becomes another diet plan and it will fail. So I feel the same way about Weigh Down. I don't follow her ideas 100% when eating a meal because I don't want to feel I have to do something that would become a rule. After all, our foods we like etc make us more of an individual. Plus I like to have an idea of what I want to eat each day or may want to eat so that I don't have to spend a lot of time having to figure out what I want to eat on the spur of the moment. So some of my own personality and likes/dislikes enters into how I do this.Originally Posted by Pinkhippie
Im glad the weigh down method is helping you. It seems there is some emphasis on weight loss so I don't think it would work for me, but everyone is different and Im glad you have found something to help keep you off the dieting rollercoaster. It's true, diets do not help us. A very vivid example of gouged out eyes and such but I see where they were going. Im glad we are all here to support each other.
I did find today that knowing how our body uses fuel we eat and the extra fuel we carry did help me a whole lot. For some reason, I think I'm beginning to get the fact that there really isn't any good/bad foods. We went to eat at Chili's today. I usually get an appetizer and DH gets a lunch plate and we share. I ended up eating between half to 3/4s of the appetizer and found that only 1 and 1/2 of one of his crispers and about 5 or 6 bites of fries were very satisfying. There was a time I would have brought home the leftovers, but I decided that I didn't want it. Felt so good to enjoy just what I wanted and leave what I didn't and no guilt feelings. I ended up eating only 3 meals (breakfast was about 1/2 of what I normally would eat) and I never even thought about eating any snacks tonight.
I told DH I didn't eat between meals or snack tonight. He said, "I did". We both need to be eating less. On the way home today, I had shared with him how I'm trying to eat now so I told him, "Well, I did good today. I don't know what I will do tomorrow. I hope I will do well tomorrow, but I am just going to take this One Day at a Time. I've decided that by thinking of this long term might not be a wise thing for me to do.
I too am so grateful that we are all here to support each other. It really helps to see what others are learning. I surely do not have all the answers. I just share what I am learning hoping that as I share that it will help others as well as me.
I also like what you shared with Palestrina what you learned from reading your old posts. I bet if I did the same thing that I would find that I probably have a pattern of IE for a while and then fall back to diet over and over again. This time watching the video and hearing some of the things others experienced, I've been able to see myself having the tendency each day to go back to a diet. My beautician was telling me Saturday what one of the other beauticians was doing and how much weight she has lost and I spent the weekend thinking I needed to do that which may have caused my weekend of feasting. But I listened to the video and decided to continue with IE. I really believe learning to follow the body's signals will help me eventually lose weight because I won't be so focused on food all the time. Of course my #1 goal right now is to balance my blood sugar and according to the WD video following your hunger signals will balance it as well as give us other health benefits as well. Of course she doesn't call it IE, but it really is.