Re: starting over

[Guest guest]

Hi Mikki! good to hear from you and that you have been not plagued by

the diet demons while away. I would guess that with your drive and GO

FOR IT! attitude, you achieve what you need to for yourself. Oh my -

5#?!? In my dreams!! lol Looking forward to hearing more from you

as you can. Congrats on the great grades! - Katcha

>

> I joined this list over the summer but it was a very intense

semester (I'm

> 41, have 4 kids age 12,5,3 and 3, work full time, and am working on

my PhD

> in the genetics of cancer) ... so I've had no time to post for a

while! I

> got an 'A' in both of my classes which was unexpected but nice I did

> manage to stay away from the diet mentality - I simply have no time to

> " waste " on worrying about my diet - what I just ate, what I'm going

to eat,

> how I feel about what I eat, blah blah blah ... so in a sense I was

eating

> intuitively LOL. Actually just not worrying about " being on a diet " , I

> think I ate better food than when I worry about it But I also wasn't

> able to exercise more than once-twice a week at best (except for

> speed-walking 6-10 blocks a day to class!), so I am horribly out of

shape

> and have gained about 5 lbs and all my clothes are tight

>

> So, I'm baaacck I'm unhappy that here is it New Year's 2008 and

I'm back

> to the old weight I was at the beginning of 2006 (I lost 15 lbs in 2006

> before starting school), but I am NOT going to slip back into the diet

> nightmare - I'm going to get back into INTUITIVE EATING and stop

eating past

> fullness, and I'm very eager to get back into shape - I really miss

feeling

> fit. I'm debating whether or not to keep an IE journal, because I'm not

> sure if it'll trigger diet mentality, but I think it would be good to at

> least keep an exercise journal because I love seeing my progress as

I get

> back in shape...

>

> anyway, just saying hello again, and hope to jump back into posting too!

>

> Mikki

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