Re: New question

[Guest guest]

Yeah, that is really hepful. Thanks so much for taking the time! I

will try to explain what I meant by that one question. I am using a

servings per day guide, such as is reccommended for healthy eating

near the end of the book. So say I have servings of this or that

left over near the end of the day. If I craved chocolate or ice

cream, I could allow myself to go a head have a serving of it,

knowing it was a trade off for healthier choices. Calories for

calories, so to speak. Does that make sense? I would be allowing

myself to have, " everything is permissilbe " still the main goal in

mind. It would help with the moderation part. My first week, I

tried to make peace with chocolate and candy by bringing it into the

house in a large quantity. Didn't work.... ate is all in a few

days. So I can see I will need to go with the approach of going to

buy only what I want at the moment to make peace with it. Having

most of these foods in the house is just too hard right now and seems

unwise. I want to feel good too as I go through the process.

Again thanks so much for your help!

Sally

-- In IntuitiveEating_Support , " latoyajw "

wrote:

>

> Sally,

>

> I think I understood everything except for this line: " Why can't it

> work to kindly allow less healthy choices when I need to in place of

> other healthy food I would have eaten? " Could you say more about

this?

>

> Are you saying that you made a list of taboo foods and are going

down

> that list legalizing/making peace with each food?

>

> I've made peace gradually with different foods throughout my

practice

> of IE. I've choose to make peace with a food only when I started to

> crave the food or had an interest in a food (at the grocery store).

> This is partly what the " intuitive " part of IE is about for

> me..responding and working with my needs and wants as I have them.

>

> For example, I love chocolate pudding cups. Before IE, I would buy

one

> of those 4 cup packs by Jello and I would eat the 4 cups within a

24

> hour period. After starting IE, I was buying groceries and my body

was

> like oh, I'd like some of that jello pudding. So, I bought it. I

ate

> the first cup when I felt hungry and really tasted it. I asked

myself

> if I wanted another cup. I didn't. So, I also ate some more filling

> food too. The acts of learning to honor my hunger and my

satisfaction

> factor seemed to be enough to help me make peace with this food. A

> week later, I still had 1 of the 4 cups left and that brought me a

> real sense of accomplishment and freedom. I may have bought a 4

pack

> one more time this year, but other than that I haven't wanted jello

> pudding.

>

> Now, like you I have foods that I don't think I'll ever get tired

of

> (that are more regular items) in my food bag like ice cream and

potato

> chips that have been discussed. Some foods, I keep in the house

> regularly and some food like chips and ice cream, I only buy when I

> want them because I can get chips and ice cream anywhere at just

about

> anytime. So, again when I wanted some honey dijon chips that I

love, I

> bought them. As I ate them I really tasted them. I like eating a

> sandwich with them so I did that. Then, I found myself munching on

> them over the next day because they are so good and convenient (no

> cooking), which part of me had a problem with because they are

pretty

> high calorie. I haven't felt the need to buy those chips again.

Though

> my brother had a bag of chips in the cabinet the other day. I got a

> yearning for the warmth and taste of potato and again they are so

> convenient. So, again, I tried to really taste the chips as I ate

them

> and found myself munching on them over the course a couple of days.

> This time though, I still had chips in the bag after several days.

So,

> I've made peace gradually. I can also keep ice cream in the fridge

> longer following this process.

>

> Does my experience help answer your question?

>

> Latoya

>

> I would just like to make those choices

> > occassionally, not daily.

> >

> > Love to hear feedback...thanks!

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks, . Your input helped me. Sounds like you are learning

to just make wiser choices about what things are just too tempting if

they are easily accessible. I am learning that too! It's like, just

dumb to make this harder than it has to be....we have a brain and

there needs to be balance for all of us I think. Thanks again,

Sally

> I would just like to make those choices

> > occassionally, not daily.

> >

> > Love to hear feedback...thanks!

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Sally you really are putting good effort into your IE journey. What is

coming up for me as I read your posts is a tiny bit of 'diet'

mentality. Its very usually for anyone who has followed diet plans to

turn IE into a set of 'rules' or limits etc. What usually happens is a

reaction the same as dieting does - rebellion to being limited/'told'

(even by yourself!) what/when/how etc. I must admit that while I

understood how the EXternal dictates didn't work, I needed a lot of

time and trying out of new and even (previously) 'bad' practices

(overeating, 'bad foods' etc.) before my HEAD gave way to my BODY and

I was able to tune into the INternal signals I needed.

Healthy?!? I always loved broccoli and could overeat it at meals when

I was already full because it was 'healthy' (and lower calories). But

was overeating it any more 'healthy' than if I had only ate a bowl of

ice cream which had less calories than my whole meal?!? These days

'healthy' is whatever my body tells me it needs - broccoli or ice

cream ;-)

Best to you - Katcha

IEing since March 2007

>

> Yeah, that is really hepful. Thanks so much for taking the time! I

> will try to explain what I meant by that one question. I am using a

> servings per day guide, such as is reccommended for healthy eating

> near the end of the book. So say I have servings of this or that

> left over near the end of the day. If I craved chocolate or ice

> cream, I could allow myself to go a head have a serving of it,

> knowing it was a trade off for healthier choices. Calories for

> calories, so to speak. Does that make sense? I would be allowing

> myself to have, " everything is permissilbe " still the main goal in

> mind. It would help with the moderation part. My first week, I

> tried to make peace with chocolate and candy by bringing it into the

> house in a large quantity. Didn't work.... ate is all in a few

> days. So I can see I will need to go with the approach of going to

> buy only what I want at the moment to make peace with it. Having

> most of these foods in the house is just too hard right now and seems

> unwise. I want to feel good too as I go through the process.

>

> Again thanks so much for your help!

>

> Sally

>