Hi Everybody!

[Guest guest]

My name is and I just joined the group. I am excited to be

here, I have been reading a few of the posts and I think I am in the

right place.

I have been on many diets over the years, and am completely food

obsessed. I just recently figured out that dieting was not working

for me! I was fooled into thinking that the " program " I was on was

not a DIET, it was a " lifestyle change " ! Ha! It was a diet.

I have been caught in the diet/binge cycle ever since I quit smoking

4.5 years ago and gained 50 lbs. I found this program after looking

for some help getting over my own diet mentality. I am reading

Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating right now. I can finally see how

insane my behavior has been jumping from one program to another and

always falling off and bingeing.

I am a single mom with 2 kids, a 14 yo dau and an 11 yo son. I live

in upstate NY.

I have been experimenting with inutuitive eating for less than a

week. One thing I have already learned is that it is ok for me to

eat breakfast! I have given myself permission! Yesterday I got up

and told myself that I shouldn't eat until I was hungry. Well, I am

never hungry in the morning and I always eat breakfast (took me a

long time to learn this). I feel bad if I don't eat breakfast, but I

never get hungry if I skip. I told myself I have to " follow the

rules " and not eat until I was hungry, which didn't happen until

12:30. Later on I realized that I was turning this into another diet

by trying to follow the " rule " of not eating until I was hungry. My

body needs food first thing whether I am hungry or not. I get tired,

I get spacey, I get headaches, I get irritable. But i don't get

hungry. So now i will listen to my body instead of trying to follow

a rule. Wow, that is really freeing, I am in charge!

Sorry my post is so long! I look forward to getting to know all of

you.