Re: transferring our behaviors, was :today's relevant cartoon

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I too am a 'stock pile' person. I do have a large supply of stored

food items. I initially did this as a means to economize in groceries

and still believe it is a great, and cheap!, 'insurance' plan. I do

use a data base program to help me keep track of what I have, when I

bought it and where it is stored. My 'extra' storage includes whole

wheat (kennels), brown rice, flour, sugar and canned goods (bought and

home made), powdered milk and other basics (like cocoa!! lol).

For me the downside of having everything 'at hand' made it easier for

me to make/bake whatever I want when ever I wanted it. I can see your

point too, an attitude towards 'stocking up' could easily be applied

to one's own body too. That's my challenge with IE, sorting out the

EXternal needs from the INternal ones.

But on second thought, doesn't having 'all' this help towards

legalizing instead of restricting? I feel calmer knowing I 'have'

instead of desperate that I 'don't' (read can't!).

Katcha

>

> By the beginning of November, 2001, I realized I had transferred

anxiety

> after the 9/11 attacks to my need to " be prepared. " For me that meant

> being able to feed my family and went well beyond the blizzard

> preparations my mother used to make. I came home from the grocery store

> one day, my husband was helping me unpack things and he asked " where

> should I put this stuff? " I replied " in the pantry. " " There is no room

> in the pantry, " he said, groceries in hand, standing at the pantry

door.

> I stopped my own unpacking, stood up and really took a look at what I

> had done. Went downstairs to the overstock shelves, opened the extra

> freezer and found that I had stuffed every bit of extra space we had

> with food and there was, in fact, no more room. I had overstuffed my

> home with food. (are you seeing the parallel here?!!)

> I stopped bringing extra groceries into the house then because

unless we

> started storing food in the living room or bedrooms there wasn't space

> for it. I had been doing IE successfully for almost a year by then.

When

> I stopped overstocking my shelves, though, I started overstocking my

> body. I ate and gained and was filled with that double anxiety of fear

> for my family and friends, our nation and neighbors, and the anxiety of

> knowing what negative impact overeating could have on my body, on me.

> Sometimes there are periods since where I've regained my IE footing,

> sometimes I lose it. But I'm sure it can be transferred to shopping or

> gambling or scrap-booking or cleaning house (one of my friend's has

done

> this substitution with mixed emotional results)...or it can be

> transferred to overstocking our pantry shelves!

>

> Alison