Guest guest Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Steve, Hold on. Intuitive eating is not a diet,( say it over and over). It is a lifestyle. Lifestyles and habits take time to change. You have lived a lifetime of diets and overeating, taking off and putting on that extra weight took time, didn’t it. Success is not the pounds or inches lost, success is overcoming the obsession to overeat. How has your success been with the overall program? Start high fiving yourself for the success you have with the program each day. And by the way, from everything I have read about intuitive eating, most people do gain a little in the beginning and will gain some from time to time. But once you accomplish learning and living the lifestyle then the added bonus for you will be a body that is just the right size for you. I have been on this program since December and it has taken me 6 months of learning new incredible things about my eating habits. With all those diets you have been on it will probably take awhile to discover the real intuitive eater that you are. Keep on Steve, you know that I.E. is so right…….you will overcome. Ok, I am going to say it again….I recommend that you read Intuitive Eating a Program that Works. I just two more copies to hand out to friends ( I won’t share mine). Glad you are here, Vicki From: IntuitiveEating_Support [mailto:IntuitiveEating_Support ] On Behalf Of Steve D Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:05 AM To: IntuitiveEating_Support Subject:] Re: esdel55 ... Hello! Hello Jenn, ladies, Thanks for the nice welcome. Yup, I'm a guy I had no idea I had stumbled into a nest of women until it was too late, LOL. Now that I've been outed, might as well say something about myself. I'm 50 years old and over 200 pounds overweight. How did I get this way? Well, I've been dieting ever since I was 12, that's how. I have probably lost hundreds of pounds on one diet or another, only to gain them all back and then some. A few years back, I lost 135 pounds on the Zone Diet. It took me several years, but I did it. Then a funny thing happened: I stopped losing weight, even though I was eating tiny portions of rabbit food. I went off the Zone and started looking around for other diets, but none of them worked, so I fell back into my old eating habits and all the weight came back on. I'm sure that's a familiar story for everyone around here. Recently I read a book about intuitive eating called " The Overfed Head " and it just made so much sense to me, it was like a light bulb went on in my head. I've been trying this approach for about a month now. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working. I'm pretty sure I've actually gained weight. I started looking around for Yahoo groups about IE and joined this one and a couple of others. One of the other groups is for people who have been trying IE for years and have been unable to lose weight. Now they're all talking about dieting again. I gotta tell ya, I'm pretty darned discouraged at this point. I don't mean to be a downer, but that's my story. I'm convinced nothing can help me. I hope you ladies can prove me wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 great post Vicki! -ditto! LJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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