Re: Re: catching up

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This was wonderful to hear!  I'm excited for these big wins you had.  I also love that term 'body whispering'.  It sounds so peaceful and loving and caring and intuitive.  Will add that to my cache of IE goodies.

>> a lot of my eating issues are fading away like ghosts ... amazing!!!> Yep, I've noticed such a thing too, but usually after the fact (lol)!

 

My other self-help activity has been to continue doing the exercises in the book " the four day win " .  Currently the exercise is to spend a few minutes per day " body-whispering " - to take a little break from daily activity, get comfortable, and repeat statements of gentle support for your body until you feel your body relax and become receptive and responsive to the positive message.  The ultimate goal of the exercise is to be able to intentionally create a relaxation response, in order to eventually invoke the relaxation response before each meal.  But for now it's just learning and practicing the technique.  of all the suggested statements, the one that resonated with me was " what matters most in life is to be kind, and I will begin by being kind to myself " (which every so often makes me cry from the relief of knowing that I have 'permission' to do so) ... and some most amazing things are happening  

 

yesterday I got home and nothing looked good, so simply didn't have an afternoon snack (revolutionary, eh??), until at 6:30 I realized I was actually tummy-grumbling and a little faint from hunger and I'd gone all afternoon without eating because I prefered to be hungry than to eat something that didn't appeal to me!  It is SUCH a big thing for me to not avoid being hungry ... it really just didn't bother me to the point that I wasn't really aware of being hungry at all.  Then I couldn't even finish the salmon and tomato slices we made for dinner - not becuase it was a huge plate of food and I couldn't stuff anymore in (my normal behavior), but because at some point I just stopped enjoying it and my body said " no more " .

 

Then, this morning I couldn't even finish my APPLE!  2/3 way through it just stopped being *appealing* (without stopping being delicious) and I didn't care for any more. so with reckless abandon for the fact that there was probably a good 25-cents worth of apple still on the core, and that apples are really " good for you " , I threw it out the window

 

Later I did get hungry and have a moderately large portion of hash browns and scrambled eggs from the work cafeteria ... but in all cases I enjoyed following the cues of my body without concern for the clock, the portion size, or the perceived " value " of the food.  Gosh, after 8 months I'm finally " getting it " LOL.

 

 

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