chapter four: Awakening the Intuitive Eater: Stages

August 8, 2010

Hello all!

Back to our weekly discussions. This week: chapter four.

1. What stage are you at? Any others? Do you go back and forth as

they mention, for instance? Do explain!

2. The second paragraph of the chapter states that " your journey back

to Intuitive Eating depends on " the following questions that I'll ask

everyone.

a. How long have you been dieting?

b. How strongly entrenched do you feel your diet thinking might be?

c. How long do you feel that you've been using food to cope with life?

d. How willing are you to trust yourself? Truly self-examine here...

e. How willing are you to make weight loss a secondary goal and

Intuitive Eating a primary goal?

3. What do you think of the diagrams on p. 33? Does it disappoint

you to think that the process won't be linear? Have you come to a

level of peace that recovery goes back and forth a bit?

4. Finding out if you're a good candidate for weight loss:

a. Have you routinely eaten beyond your comfortable fullness level?

b. Do you routinely overeat when you're getting ready for your next

diet, knowing there will be a lot of foods you won't be allowed to

eat?

c. Do you overeat as a coping mechanism in difficult times?

d. Do you overeat to fill up time when you're bored?

e. Have you been resistant to exercise?

f. Do you only exercise when you diet?

g. Do you skip meals or wait to eat until you're ravenously hungry,

only to find that you overeat when you finally do eat?

h. Do you feel guilty, either when you overeat or when you eat a

" bad food " which results in more overeating?

5. Are you ready to focus on HOW YOU FEEL as the goal, rather than

weight loss? How does that make you feel now? Any reservations?

6. Anything else you want to add about the stages? Have your

insights changed as you answered these questions?

As always answer what is comfortable and omit what is not. Opening

up may help your fellow Intuitive Eater-in-Training feel comfortable

in their process...some personal questions here but worth it!

Cheers,

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