Guest guest Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 I would guess that you are still having problems with night time eating because the diet police have made some sort of "rule" in your mind. It doesn't sound like you have truly given yourself to permission to eat anything you want, when you want, whether you are hungry or not. When you do this, the food compulsion will go away. Food dominated my thoughts from age 8 to 41. That's a long time to be obsessed with food! Now it seems like I have more time to live my life and it is so nice! Kim Subject: Loss of control!To: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Sunday, May 31, 2009, 1:32 PM I haven't posted on this site for a long time, but i really need some help.I've been trying out IE for around two months now after years of dieting, no self esteem, bulimia and so on, and i know i wont just suddenly be able to do this over night but i really feel stuck in a rut.I try so hard to listen to my body and only eat when i'm hungry, i don't deny myself any foods, and throughout the day, its all brilliant.The problem starts once ive eaten dinner in the evening. Im not at all hungry, but my mind is possessed with food. Its rediculous. I will eat what i seem to be craving (even though im not hungry), it will go away and then i just start thinking about food again. It sometimes helps if i really occupy myself doing something which requires concentration, but the thoughts just keep coming back until they are desperate. I just dont no what to do.Please can anyone help me? Any ideas, suggestions or anything? Has anyone else been through this and gotten over it?Its making me so down (Nat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 , Inspiring! Especially how it shows growing strong about food can help us be strong in other areas. Warrior > > > > > > I haven't posted on this site for a long time, but i really need some help. > > > > I've been trying out IE for around two months now after years of dieting, no self esteem, bulimia and so on, and i know i wont just suddenly be able to do this over night but i really feel stuck in a rut. > > > > I try so hard to listen to my body and only eat when i'm hungry, i don't deny myself any foods, and throughout the day, its all brilliant. > > The problem starts once ive eaten dinner in the evening. Im not at all hungry, but my mind is possessed with food. Its rediculous. I will eat what i seem to be craving (even though im not hungry), it will go away and then i just start thinking about food again. It sometimes helps if i really occupy myself doing something which requires concentration, but the thoughts just keep coming back until they are desperate. I just dont no what to do. > > > > Please can anyone help me? Any ideas, suggestions or anything? Has anyone else been through this and gotten over it? > > > > Its making me so down ( > > > > Nat > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Thank you again for more posts. I'm not so sure it is the food police as i am allowing myself whatever i feel like to eat, its just the evenings when im having these mad food thoughts and cravings and urges and im not even hungry. I think its gotta be emotional eating, although what im actually trying to avoid or compensate for, im not so sure. Im gonna try the books suggested and keep battling away ) > > > > > > > > > I haven't posted on this site for a long time, but i really need some help. > > > > > > I've been trying out IE for around two months now after years of dieting, no self esteem, bulimia and so on, and i know i wont just suddenly be able to do this over night but i really feel stuck in a rut. > > > > > > I try so hard to listen to my body and only eat when i'm hungry, i don't deny myself any foods, and throughout the day, its all brilliant. > > > The problem starts once ive eaten dinner in the evening. Im not at all hungry, but my mind is possessed with food. Its rediculous. I will eat what i seem to be craving (even though im not hungry), it will go away and then i just start thinking about food again. It sometimes helps if i really occupy myself doing something which requires concentration, but the thoughts just keep coming back until they are desperate. I just dont no what to do. > > > > > > Please can anyone help me? Any ideas, suggestions or anything? Has anyone else been through this and gotten over it? > > > > > > Its making me so down ( > > > > > > Nat > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Hey, if you think that it is emotional eating issue. Then I will said don't battle with that emotional. Sometime there is reason for us to feel something when no others can possibility understand why it is that we are being extreme sensitive emotion type of people. Don't fight with emotional. Because if you do shut down emotional. They will climb up out of the volcano as in result you eat much worse. I am an emotional eater and I still am learning to accept my own feels as my own. Listen to myself first then other people second or last expect for the parent with children that is quite highly challenges. Eliza > > Thank you again for more posts. > > I'm not so sure it is the food police as i am allowing myself whatever i feel like to eat, its just the evenings when im having these mad food thoughts and cravings and urges and im not even hungry. I think its gotta be emotional eating, although what im actually trying to avoid or compensate for, im not so sure. > > Im gonna try the books suggested and keep battling away ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Hey! Just here to say you are not alone with this battle. I am a full - time student and am also in a long distance serious relationship. I also often finds myself exhausted at night and do alot of night time emotional eating. For me, it seems to be part habit and part emotional. I am so used to eating constantly at night sometimes I just crave the munching feeling rather than any food. But I also find that " working " full time and maintaining a long distance relationship leaves me extremely drained. A big chunk of my down time is spent driving to see my boyfriend. Night time is my only down time to relax so I often relax through food... Or more often I am just too tired to do IE. Right now, I am off from school for the summer and I am finding it a lot easier to do IE. Stress is a huge trigger for my eating. Do you have the summer off? If so, maybe you can use some of the time to focus more on IE and create a more solid foundation for the stressful times to come in the Fall. : ) Good luck! K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 , I have added this book to the list with your latest review (below). That will make it seen by any one looking at the list as well as give them some idea that there is some non-IE stuff there too. Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > I honestly think Shrink Yourself by roger gould (minus chapter 10) would be helpful. There is a chapter devoted to unfulfilling relationships. It also takes us back to infancy, childhood, and teen years to understand the evolution of our associations with food for comfort. > > > Knobloch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Thank you.! KnoblochSent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from U.S. CellularFrom: "Katcha" Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:24:51 -0000To: <IntuitiveEating_Support >Subject: Re: Loss of control! , I have added this book to the list with your latest review (below). That will make it seen by any one looking at the list as well as give them some idea that there is some non-IE stuff there too. Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > I honestly think Shrink Yourself by roger gould (minus chapter 10) would be helpful. There is a chapter devoted to unfulfilling relationships. It also takes us back to infancy, childhood, and teen years to understand the evolution of our associations with food for comfort. > > > Knobloch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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