Re: From pro dieter to normal overeater: Tuning out Fullness

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Hi Jeanne: I often 'tuned out' fullness when I allowed myelf to binge eat what I

really wanted after long periods of restriction. After feeling deprived for too

long, I just wanted to enjoy the taste and not think about how uncomfortable my

stomach felt. I suspect I feared that I wouldn't let myself have those favorite

foods for awhile after that binge. For a long time I was caught up in

restrict/binge cycles.

However, I also tuned out fullness when I feared stopping at 'just enough' would

make me feel too hungry before my next planned meal. I didn't know how to

'snack' on foods that could satisfy hungry for awhile, but not destroy my

appetite for the next meal (which I planned to eat with someone else). So I ate

until I was obviously full, rather than comfortably full, in order to 'last'

until the next meal. '

So fears that I couldn't trust myself to feed myself when, what and how much I

wanted, influenced my choice to tune out the physical sensations which could

teach me exactly when, what and how much I needed. Of course the diet industry

also taught me that I couldn't trust myself or my own body to tell me when, what

and how much to eat. So learning to trust myself and my body cues required me to

risk believing that my body cues were trustworthy, despite what the diet gurus

claimed.

SUE

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> One of my real struggles with the IE process has been determining what

comfortable fullness feels like for me. Guess I can attribute that to being so

tuned out with myself for so many years. It has been a real education reading

your posts!

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> Thanks!

> Jeanne

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