Re: A handy little resource!

[Guest guest]

Bonnie, thanks for this. It's been very quiet at my desk today so

I've been reading a few things and just had a little " a-ha " moment!

I've never considered myself to be a binge eater. I have never had

the stereotypical moment where you start eating and you can't stop.

My issue has always been eating when I'm not really hungry - just a

couple of cookies, maybe some cheese and crackers, a handfull of

grapes for reasons that I'm not entirely sure of. Then I read the

following and it actually made me gasp. " ...binge eating is not

about the amount of food you eat, but the way you eat it. Two

cookies can be a binge if you eat them with urgency, desperation and

the pressing need for an altered state " .

Wow. Talk about a change in perspective! That will give me

something to chew on besides a granola bar!

>

> I have found a nice little resource at Prevention.com, for those of

us

> when we need a pick-me-up at work or just when we are feeling like

we

> are struggling. Geneen Roth has a bunch of articles archived at

> Prevention, they are short, but really hit the spot. It seems that

she

> probably has one to meet every need. You can find them by going to

> www.prevention.com and doing a search for " geneen roth " or by

clicking

> on this link:

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> Bonnie

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[Guest guest]

That same quote was my aha moment last night too! I know there are times when I get super busy at work, and grab 4 to 6 pieces of peanut butter fudge to stuff in my face as I race around getting things done (I work at a chocolate factory). Even I wouldn't have thought that was a binge, per se, but after reading what Geneen said made me change my mind. I now realize that I stuff that fudge as a way to calm myself from stress, or to show myself "see, I am working so hard and under so much pressure that I HAVE to eat this peanut butter fudge because I am just too busy to stop and eat a real meal." It's a binge, and I should have known it was a binge because I was eating it for all the wrong reasons.

I'm glad you got something out of it too!

Bonnie

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:23:46 PMSubject: Re: A handy little resource!

Bonnie, thanks for this. It's been very quiet at my desk today so I've been reading a few things and just had a little "a-ha" moment!I've never considered myself to be a binge eater. I have never had the stereotypical moment where you start eating and you can't stop. My issue has always been eating when I'm not really hungry - just a couple of cookies, maybe some cheese and crackers, a handfull of grapes for reasons that I'm not entirely sure of. Then I read the following and it actually made me gasp. "...binge eating is not about the amount of food you eat, but the way you eat it. Two cookies can be a binge if you eat them with urgency, desperation and the pressing need for an altered state". Wow. Talk about a change in perspective! That will give me something to chew on besides a granola bar!>> I have found a nice little resource at Prevention.com, for those of us > when we need a pick-me-up at work or just when we are feeling like we > are struggling. Geneen Roth has a bunch of articles archived at > Prevention, they are short, but really hit the spot. It seems that she > probably has one to meet every need. You can find them by going to > www.prevention. com and doing a search for "geneen roth" or by clicking > on this link:> > http://search. prevention. com/vignette/ pvn/search. jsp?> requiredfields=

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[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for sharing this!! They look like great little articles!

Subject: Re: Re: A handy little resource!To: IntuitiveEating_Support Received: Monday, February 23, 2009, 5:06 PM

That same quote was my aha moment last night too! I know there are times when I get super busy at work, and grab 4 to 6 pieces of peanut butter fudge to stuff in my face as I race around getting things done (I work at a chocolate factory). Even I wouldn't have thought that was a binge, per se, but after reading what Geneen said made me change my mind. I now realize that I stuff that fudge as a way to calm myself from stress, or to show myself "see, I am working so hard and under so much pressure that I HAVE to eat this peanut butter fudge because I am just too busy to stop and eat a real meal." It's a binge, and I should have known it was a binge because I was eating it for all the wrong reasons.

I'm glad you got something out of it too!

Bonnie

From: jennie_4 <jennie_4yahoo (DOT) com>To: IntuitiveEating_ Support@yahoogro ups.comSent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:23:46 PMSubject: [intuitiveEating_ Support] Re: A handy little resource!

Bonnie, thanks for this. It's been very quiet at my desk today so I've been reading a few things and just had a little "a-ha" moment!I've never considered myself to be a binge eater. I have never had the stereotypical moment where you start eating and you can't stop. My issue has always been eating when I'm not really hungry - just a couple of cookies, maybe some cheese and crackers, a handfull of grapes for reasons that I'm not entirely sure of. Then I read the following and it actually made me gasp. "...binge eating is not about the amount of food you eat, but the way you eat it. Two cookies can be a binge if you eat them with urgency, desperation and the pressing need for an altered state".. Wow. Talk about a change in perspective! That will give me something to chew on besides a granola bar!>> I have found a nice little resource at Prevention.com, for those of us > when we need a pick-me-up at work or just when we are feeling like we > are struggling. Geneen Roth has a bunch of articles archived at > Prevention, they are short, but really hit the spot. It seems that she > probably has one to meet every need. You can find them by going to > www.prevention. com and doing a search for "geneen roth" or by clicking > on this link:> > http://search. prevention. com/vignette/ pvn/search. jsp?> requiredfields= pv_srch%> 3A1 & getfields= description.

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