New To IE

[Guest guest]

I started my IE experience about 2 months ago. For the first time in my life, I

am finding freedom from overeating and peace with food. I have not weighed

myself for about 2 weeks. Yet each morning, the bathroom scale greeted me with

a silent challenge: is it working? Well, finally I decided to put weight loss

on the back burner (after listening to the IE cds). Over the weekend, I asked

my husband to hide the scale. It's so much easier and freeing to concentrate on

how I feel instead.

I'm enjoying feeling comfortable and not stuffed. Instead of barring any food,

I find that focusing on what I really like and want keeps me satisfied. Last

night I made homemade marinara, turkey meatballs, and banana bread. Yet when

dinner was ready, I just ate several meatballs. I wasn't terribly hungry and

suddenly yummy pasta was less appealing than warm banana bread. I used to think

my body was the enemy, to be beaten into shape. Now I see my body as a

wonderful resource to tell me when I'm hungry, what I really want to eat, and

when I'm really full. I can eat anything, anytime, and I'm not binging.

I'm really embracing the grace-filled non-judgmental philosophy of IE. Recently

I ate a Little Debbie Oatmeal cookie when I wasn't exactly hungry. I let myself

eat it without judgment and I learned something: I don't like them anymore! I

like that IE has been a slow process for me (in terms of my body changing).

It's teaching me to accept and celebrate my body as it is now!

Thank you for sharing your experiences! I'm learning from and with you.

[Guest guest]

Welcome ! Sounds like you are off to a good start and so glad you are

finding support here. Your posts are an important part of that as we get support

from your 'reports' too!

Its wonderfully amazing that we can trust ourselves to eat and care for what we

need. I know that so much of what I read in IE seemed like a sweet wish then,

and its all becoming REAL now.

Glad to be sharing the IE journey with you and all the others here too.

Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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> I started my IE experience about 2 months ago. For the first time in my life,

I am finding freedom from overeating and peace with food. I have not weighed

myself for about 2 weeks. Yet each morning, the bathroom scale greeted me with

a silent challenge: is it working? Well, finally I decided to put weight loss

on the back burner (after listening to the IE cds). Over the weekend, I asked

my husband to hide the scale. It's so much easier and freeing to concentrate on

how I feel instead.

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> I'm enjoying feeling comfortable and not stuffed. Instead of barring any

food, I find that focusing on what I really like and want keeps me satisfied.

Last night I made homemade marinara, turkey meatballs, and banana bread. Yet

when dinner was ready, I just ate several meatballs. I wasn't terribly hungry

and suddenly yummy pasta was less appealing than warm banana bread. I used to

think my body was the enemy, to be beaten into shape. Now I see my body as a

wonderful resource to tell me when I'm hungry, what I really want to eat, and

when I'm really full. I can eat anything, anytime, and I'm not binging.

>

> I'm really embracing the grace-filled non-judgmental philosophy of IE.

Recently I ate a Little Debbie Oatmeal cookie when I wasn't exactly hungry. I

let myself eat it without judgment and I learned something: I don't like them

anymore! I like that IE has been a slow process for me (in terms of my body

changing). It's teaching me to accept and celebrate my body as it is now!

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> Thank you for sharing your experiences! I'm learning from and with you.

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