Greetings

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  • Angela_P71
  on Mar. 10, 2009 at 10:16 AM

• Welcome K, I'm on the journey too, just coming from a different direction. I have a history of diet cycling, but even on my longest & most temporarily-successful diets, I never got to a BMI that would be deemed a "goal" weight. Ultimately that's why I would ultimately choose to quit -- I would be scrimping & struggling & agonizing, working out like crazy, eating "perfectly" on plan, and yet my size/weight would plateau around a size 20 (from size 26 max). That was a lot of work just to be somewhat less plus-sized!

  So, I'm on the journey of making peace with food and with hunger, learning to listen to my body and truly nurture it.

  I am thinking about going through the "Am I Hungry" program (book, DVD set, and coaching sessions). Unfortunately, if I don't have something to shake me out of my comfort zone, I fall back into habitual patterns very easily. And life is VERY busy & stressful and due to get even more so in the next few months. But my little voice is telling me that I have to make time for this. I have to do something that will take some effort to keep creating new mind-behavior connections.
  

  Anyway, welcome to the list!

  - A.P.

  
  

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  • Sourkeys
  on Mar. 10, 2009 at 8:00 PM

• SO True Angela. You have to make time for this.  Otherwise you will stay a prisoner forever!

  We have to unlearn/ or de-program ourselves from the old way of destructive thinking and behaving. YES the CD and the workbook would help. I'm thinking about getting the CD myself as I need (yet another) kick in the but (to eat intuitively. I too can fall back into old patterns and then I wake up and do it right. Don't give up.

  For example, today I purely ate intuitively. I feel soooo great. I ate whatever I wanted when I was hungy. I got a bit concerned as I didn't feel true hunger until about 4pm. This is really just my body readjusting and self-regulating. So go with it.

  Always have a good sized lunch bag with all the things you may want to eat that day and tote it with you (especially if you are on the run and busy) HEY! we DO this for our kids right? I am always making sure they have snacs and drinks...in case they get hungry, how come we forget about ourselves??????  

  Good luck!

  K

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  • telltalemikey
  on Mar. 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM

• hi! i am totally on board to begin this journey. i will admit it is harder than i thought it would be. i guess i assumed that once i decided to start 'recovering' i would just wake up one day and start doing everything right. that has not been the case. i am picking up my 'Intuivie Eating' book tomorrow and i really hope it helps me. my little story goes something like this:

  as long as i can remember i was never comfortable in my own body. i was raised by a single father and i don't think he knew how to approach things of that nature. i can pinoint were it went from bad to worse. puberty. i believe that's when my view of myself became really distorted. i started digging a hole emotionally and physically. i was always a little chubbier. food was a comfort in my life. little nutrition, lots of junk food. it was about this time(age 12) that i began chewing and spitting. i then moved on to more bulmic tendencies. and eventually starvation. i never got 'underweight' though because i would always binge. i did lose my 'baby weight' though. it was a good student, school work was easy. but from years of isolating myself i never really felt like i fit in. i starting hanging out with older kids and then drinking/substances came into play. that pretty much replased the ED stuff for a while. i met my now husband and he helped me turn my life around. we moved and  i started working as a CNA. i started getting really healthy. i ate balanced and stayed active. i was at a healthy weight and felt good. then we had to move back. then we got pregnant. i guess that was a lot of stress. i used my pregnancy as an excuse to eat myself to sleep everyday. i gained 60lbs with my son. afterwards i was commited to losing it the right way. and i did(after 3 years). just recently though i have been leaning towards ED tendencies and i want to stop it in the bud. i have realized i have never truly dealt with it and until i do it will always be there. i want to be healthy and happy and not have to worry about that stuff. it is important to me to pass on the right views to my children. it's also important because i am ttc concieve #2 and i know i need to be in my best condition.

  wow- rant over-lol
  

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  • RDmommyto3
  on Apr. 24, 2009 at 8:03 AM
• Hello Everyone, it's been awhile since I have had a chance to check in with the IE group, but as I am a dietitian and following the IE process, I figure I'll add a few thoughts. I just finished listening to the workshop recording for practitioners and the audio version of the book IE which includes guided imagry/meditations. I highly recommend the CD. Anyway, I realized something that I hadn't grasped before when I read the book- with IE, weight loss needs to be put on the back burner, if you are not willing to let weight loss go, you won't be able to stick with IE. It's almost as if weight loss is a side effect of learning to accept your body and eating intuitively. The problem with this is of course, most people turn to IE b/c they want to lose weight and have tried everything else or hit rock bottom. I guess what I am trying to say is that when following the IE process, weight loss will happen, but you can't be focused on that as your priority. The other big point is that IE will bring you down to your natural or normal size- which may or may not be what society tells us it should be! It is a sloooooww process, but it does work and you will come out of the journey as a different person and only one of those differences will be your weight! Peace,
  Heather

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