Intuitive Eating Meeting 2

This was the group that met tonight and discussed chapter 9.

This meeting went well - it started out on completely different topics and I wondered if we'd ever get around to discussing the chapter - Feel Your Fullness. We did and it seemed that everyone had a lot of good things to say. I know it helped me to refocus and try hard to listen to my body and stop when I should. M even suggested, getting up and going to the bathroom to be sure that you take that "time out" or break from eating - to check in away from the food and away from the conversation. There was a discussion about wasting food and how we have been taught to clean our plates etc. The principle of permission came up. When we give ourselves permission to eat anything or to allow ourselves to come back to the food later if we want, we really can stop eating. I have read this chapter probably three times and I still have a really hard time with it. I started taking this IE thing seriously back in May and I'm sure I have only gained weight and not lost any. I know I have made progress in other ways - like making peace with different kinds of food and learning from my experiences. These meetings really help me. Meeting with J also really helps me - I haven't seen her for three weeks and I can feel it. I'm seeing her tomorrow - thank goodness. It is always nice to have someone to talk to about these things - someone who knows, who gets it.

Positive Eating Experience #4 - or was it?

Monday night I was at dinner with S and we both ordered the salad and one slice of pizza deal. I ate both and still felt hungry - now because I am an intuitie eater, I thought I should order another slice of pizza so I did. It was soooooo good. I ate the whole thing and surpassed my fullness level and felt sick after. Should I have waited a bit before ordering the second piece of pizza or should I have simply stopped midway throgh the second piece? This IE thing is really hard.

Positive Eating Experience #3

I got home from work and wasn’t too hungry. I waited for an half an hour and then realized that I was hungry so I opened my pantry and realized that I did not want anything in there – candybars, chips, chocolate, cheezits etc. so I opened the fridge and looked at the fruit I had – I actually wanted to eat an apple so I ate an apple with caramel dip.

Intuitive Eating Club

We will have meeting #2 on Thursday, October 25th - same time same place. Email me at katy_knight@mac.com if you want to know what the time and place were for meeting #1. Anyone is invited - you just have to be open to IE ideas - no dieters please. We will be discussing chapter 9 - Feel Your Fulness.

Positive Eating Experience #2

Yesterday for lunch I had a tuna fish sandwich, doritos and raspberries. I can actually say that I wanted to eat those things - normally I'd just go get a J dawg. Maybe I'll get a J dawg for lunch today - that sounds good.

Positive eating experience #1

J wants me to stop focusing on the negative eating experiences and write down all my positive eating experiences. I told her that I feel like I'm at a stand still but then I guess I feel that way cause I'm not losing weight. This activity might help me realize that I'm making progress just not in the way I expect or hope to. So I will share all these positive experiences with anyone who reads my blog.

I went to dinner with Ann Dee and K. We decided that each of us would pick a yummy appetizer and we'd all share and then we'd get dessert as well. It was so darn fun to taste everyone else's food and not be so obsessed with whichever one I chose. I stopped when I was full and didn't overeat. I know if we hadn't shared, I would have eaten much more. I was satisfied and happy. Chalk that one up for sure.

Recipes Please

So I'm going to try something new ... once a week I will cook. For real - I want to try new things. I need recipes though. Please be so kind and email me: katy_knight@mac.com with yummy, relatively easy recipes. I'm not so concerned about healthy recipes, just delicious ones. If you don't mind sharing them with lots of people, just post them in a comment.

Thanks - seriously. I know some people like to keep their very best recipes secret but come on, this is for a good cause.