Re: What would it take to comfortably release non-hunger eating......

[Guest guest]

For me I know exactly what it would take -- I am really scared of being hungry.

When I read the chapter in the IE book that talked about the primal fear of

hunger, it was just this enormous epiphany for me and I thought about it A LOT.

Like everyone here probably I have done a lot of extreme dieting in my life,

well past the age when I should have known better. Now I just fear the feelings

associated with it very much. I have a really hard time mentally telling apart

gentle " it's about time to eat " hunger, and full blown starving nauseous shaky

" I'm going to die if I don't eat " hunger. panic, overeating.

Unfortunately knowing this doesn't help a lot because I don't know what to do

about it.

Thea

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> I just had an epiphany this morning... I have been seeking books, counselors

and outside wisdom about how to let go of non-hunger eating...and this morning

with great peace it occurred to me that I had never sat down with myself and

asked " me " ....

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> " What would it take to comfortably release non-hunger eating? "

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> I believe the wisdom is inside of me, I just have not been 'honoring' or

tapping into it.

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> So my goal today is to sit down be present and journal the answer. {I'll let

ya know what I find out! }

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> I'd LOVE to hear any of your answers if it feels right/safe/comfortable/useful

to ask youself.

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> <<I am REALLY grateful for this place to process this 'food stuff'- you are SO

warm and Kind it feels so safe I really appreciate it!!>>

> Josie

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[Guest guest]

Great question. I love the " comfortably " in the sentence. I also love the direction.I've really been struggling with the diet mentality. Not so much with the good foods/bad foods as with the ideas of rules to follow, rules to judge myself by.

I have a deep intuition that what I'm trying to teach myself through this process is how to trust myself, to trust my own wisdom and " flow. " To come from the inside, just as you said.Yet I keep running to books and the wisdom of the group to find the " how to. " I'm so scared to trust myself, to ask the question you asked.

It's so very much easier to find rules to follow, to force myself to follow, and to judge myself (wanting) in terms of the rules. Even rules that seem so beneficial ( " eat when hungry " etc.)It's as if I'm willing to force and struggle and judge from the outside in as a drama that makes a lot of noise so I can avoid coming from my own wisdom. I'm afraid to trust myself and find myself. Somehow to stop and look within and find the essential me lacking would be so much more devasting than to fail at following rules. I'm not sure why.

j.

I just had an epiphany this morning... I have been seeking books, counselors and outside wisdom about how to let go of non-hunger eating...and this morning with great peace it occurred to me that I had never sat down with myself and asked " me " ....

" What would it take to comfortably release non-hunger eating? "

I believe the wisdom is inside of me, I just have not been 'honoring' or tapping into it.

So my goal today is to sit down be present and journal the answer. {I'll let ya know what I find out! }

I'd LOVE to hear any of your answers if it feels right/safe/comfortable/useful to ask youself.

<<I am REALLY grateful for this place to process this 'food stuff'- you are SO warm and Kind it feels so safe I really appreciate it!!>>

Josie