Re: Baby Steps

[Guest guest]

That's great, ! I love that feeling of freedom when you finally allow yourself to listen to your hunger and actually act on it. And hey, just because the process isn't always linear doesn't mean you can't celebrate each success! Great job!

Mimi

Subject: Re: Baby StepsTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 10:10 PM

I'm really enjoying this Intuitive Eating so far. It's helping me see how incredibly tightly I had bound myself by making so many foods off-limits. And the thing is, even though they were off-limits, I still ate most of them!

Today for lunch, I was really hungry. I had had a busy morning, and only eaten a large apple when I felt hungry. Then had to run an errand. By the time I got home, I was definitely and truly hungry.

I ate meat and potatoes, more or less, for lunch. Both items were previously off-limits. So, I ate my lunch, and basically savored every bite, and finished off with a small sweet for dessert. After that meal, I was truly satisfied. I wasn't trying to find something else that would satisfy me because I had actually eaten what I wanted. And this afternoon, I noticed that I was able to clear off the top of the piano, something that has been eluding me for weeks, if not months.

Tonight for dinner, I again ate what I wanted to have, and felt pretty satisfied, but I had three of the little sweets for dessert, instead of one, and then stopped. I realized that eating more than that would have been venturing into a type of eating that was not based on hunger, and so i stopped. Not because I had to, but because I stopped long enough to think about what I was doing, and decided I wanted to stop. This is just so different for me, and I guess I was just really at a point of readiness to embrace this.

I realize this is not a linear process, that every step doesn't lead forward to some clearly ascertained goal, but again, that each step is the next step on my journey.