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  • trixie212
  on Jul. 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM
• Hi everyone! I'm a mom to a 10 yo dd and have been happily married for 11 years.  I've been fighting with food ever since I can remember.
  I was always a bit heavy as a child. Them I became anorexic at
  around 16 or 17. I was put in an in-house facility for that for around
  a month, and thankfully overcame it. After that, I followed the
  diabetic food plan religiously, then basically did the yo-yo dieting
  from there on. I am now 33 and almost back to my heaviest weight. I
  started compulsively eating around 3 or 4 years ago. I would just
  find myself stuffing my face and not even realizing it half of the
  time. I read Intuitive Eating about a month ago, and just finished 7
  Secrets of Thin People last week. Although I am trying to adopt the
  principles in the book, I'm having a really hard time. I've only
  weighed myself about 3 times in the past month, which is big for me,
  because I've been weighing myself 3-4 times a week for as long as I
  can remember. I still find myself eating when not hungry (and
  secretly), and I have a REALLY hard time telling when I'm full. I'm
  hoping it gets easier.

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  • Liveinazoo
  on Jul. 18, 2008 at 10:45 PM
• Hi!
  I am a 38-year-old mom of 7-year-old twin daughters.  I work part-time as a music teacher at a charter school and part-time helping my husband with his work-from-home business.  I have struggled with my weight all of my life.  I'm probably about 60 pounds above where I "should" be, but truly, if I could lose 40 pounds and just stay there, I think I'd be satisfied.  It seems like I'm always either dieting and losing weight or else I'm not dieting and gaining weight.  I've done weight watchers multiple times, and it works, but eventually I slip back into my old eating habits.  I've been hearing more and more about "intuitive eating" and it makes a lot of sense.  What has yet to be seen is if I can do it and if I can maintain it.  I'm hoping that a support group like you guys will help.  In fact, I got on line because this is the time of night that I'd usually be looking for a snack.  And I keep telling myself, "you can have a snack when you are actually physically hungry."  I'm also trying to focus more on whole, healthy foods rather than "skinny" foods.
  
  I haven't read the book, so I don't know any of the "rules" but I look forward to learning from all of you, and maybe I'll see if the library has the book.
  
  Thanks, in advance!
  
  -Mary
  

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  • telltalemikey
  on Mar. 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM

• not sure how active this group is nowadays, but i'll introduce myself anyways :) i'm mikey and i am focusing a lot on inutive eating. it is helping me get past all my ED issues and feel a lot better about myself.
  

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  • IrishMommaC
  on Mar. 18, 2009 at 8:35 PM

• Hello Ladies,

  My name is Claire and I have not read or even seen the intuitive eating book.  I saw mention further down the page of "I can make you Thin" with Paul McKenna, and that's where my interest is coming from.  I watched part of the TLC special last year and I actually just bought the book with hypnosis CD about a week ago.  I loved what he had to say on his special and the book and CD have been amazing over the last week.  This was the closest group those principles on CafeMom and I don't feel comfortable starting my own group until I've been doing this a little longer and have some real results.

  I come from a family of obesity and yo-yo dieters.  My relationship with my body and food has been highly dysfunctional as long as I can remember.  My mother was over 400lbs about 5 years ago, had gastric bypass, and is slowly putting the weight back on (she lost about 225lbs in that first year and a half and has gained about 15-20lbs back each year since).  My dad always believed a womans value was inversely related to the size of her waist (and since I was a chubby child I never had any value).  I slimmed out in high school and maintained a beautiful weight of 150lbs (on a 5'10" frame that looks good... still soft, feminine, and supple, but not chunky or rolly) from the time I was 16 until I got pregnant at 19.5.  Since then I've been battling myself and torturing myself with diets.  It's been pretty miserable.  I've beaten myself up.  I've starved myself.  I've had a hard time enjoying sex with my beautiful husband because I don't want to see my body.   During my pregnancy with my son I went from 150 to 220.  I only ever got back down to 170 (2.5years later) mainly through starving myself for extended periods of time.  Then, with my daughter I ended up at 225.  For the last 16 months I've been hanging in the 205-210 range.  It's depressing.  Anyways, I'm committed to giving this a full 100% go.  Its killing me not to step on the scale.  I've been tied to that stupid thing for years.  I decided I can weigh myself on the 1st and 16th of the month, so I'm still a ways off. 

  I have no doubt I've been eating significantly less though.  And man, food tastes so good when you actually slow down and experience it.  Its stinking amazing.  My husband, God bless him, is in no way supportive of diets.  He's never struggled with his weight and doesn't understand why I'm not as happy with my body as he is.  After a ton of self-evalution I decided that re-programing my mind is exactly what I need to do...  It took me a solid year to process this idea, but now I'm sold.  I know when I was maintaining that weight I loved, I didn't diet.  I wasn't food obsessed like I've been for so long.  I ate the things I wanted, and I stayed skinny... so now I'm going to learn about that and find out how to recreate that part of my life instead of the experience I saw of my mother and the yo-yo dieting as I grew up.

  Claire

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  • virgomama77
  on Apr. 23, 2009 at 11:49 AM

• Hey there...I'm a 31 yr-old mom of a 7-yr old boy.  Happily married now for almost 4 years--was a single parent for the first 2 years & it wreaked havoc on my eating!  I'm an ex-member of the 12-step group, Overeaters Anonymous, which was very helpful at first...but as I gained recovery, I felt I could no longer be around  'diet mentality,' which is what I experienced in the local groups.  I read Intuitive Eating about 2 years ago and was really excited to find something that could lead to true freedom from food and weight obsession.  Tried following the book's suggestions on my own with some success--but the weight obsession kept me from being able to fully embrace it.  I'm a performing songwriter, which makes it very difficult not to focus on my appearance!  I just want to feel comfortable in my clothes again.  I don't have a specific number in mind.  I want to be healthy.  And more importantly, I want freedom from the vicious cycle that is emotional/restrictive/binge eating--I've been battling this since I was 9 years old!  Would love to find an online buddy to check in with on a regular basis...any takers??
  

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  • kimannedo
  on May. 7, 2009 at 6:43 AM

• hi im kim im an  Aussie mum of 4 kids and am currently re reading "if not dieting ,then what"

  it changed my life but then i fell back into the "diet "traps after being completly humilated but anyways im back to it and looking forward to getting to know everyone

  

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