Guest guest Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Hi Amie: Please dont avoid a special place or food if you truly enjoy it. You deserve as much as anyone else to treat yourself and really enjoy the pleasure of it. When you're sitting there eating something that is sooooooooo satisfying, just stay with that feeling. It comes from that part of you that has nothing to do with your mind and dieting and beating yourself up. It is a " higher place. " That's the part of you that will overcome what your mind thinks you cant. The mind thinks " surface " when the answer is nowhere close to it. It's sort of like looking in a mirror and seeing a blemish on your face and trying desparately to scrub away at the mirror to get rid of it instead of addressing where the blemish actually is. That is how I look at dieting - fiddling with the effect. Think about the events that happened around this episode. Sometimes certain things will " set us off " into old behaviors. It's easy to return to old behaviors - I'm still freaking out over getting weighed the other day and last night wondered why I'm stuffing my face. It's such a learning process to undo years and years of old habits that FEEL like they cannot be changed. But it is just a feeling. The feeling comes and the feeling goes. It has nothing to do with who we are. Go have fun on your holidays! Enjoy the life it brings you. Warm Hugs, Deb > > My question is how do I recover from an overeating event? Obviously better > to avoid it . but it happens. > > Last weekend, even though I did pretty well, I overate on Saturday night at > a wonderful restaurant. I didn't feel physically hungry on Sunday at all. > But when I started to get grumpy and dizzy, I figured eating was required. I > felt like I ate too much again on Sunday night. I didn't feel physically > hungry again until Monday afternoon - and no energy either. I feel like > there is a huge swing in my ability to 'honor my hunger' after a night out. > With thanksgiving and other events coming up, any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Amie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Waiting too long to eat often creates 'over' hunger and thus over eating. Its sort of a balancing thing? Because our hunger signals have gotten messed with by dieting or eating to a schedule/clock, tuning back into real hunger can be difficult at first. I had to actually set a timer to help me check in with myself at intervals until I got to where I could sense and understand what hunger was like for me. Considering that eating protein type foods usually take about 3-4 hours to digest and by used by your body, if you aren't feeling hungry after 4+ hours, its probably your sensing of hunger that might be questioned? This all sounds like work, and can be effort for sure, but IE is different than dieting - you are encouraged to 'play' with your food! Eat something you really like and see how long it is before you are hungry again. Do that with something else. It won't be long before you find good information about YOUR abilities and choices too. BEST wishes for you and looking forward to more posts as you go along your IE journey. Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > My question is how do I recover from an overeating event? Obviously better > to avoid it . but it happens. > > Last weekend, even though I did pretty well, I overate on Saturday night at > a wonderful restaurant. I didn't feel physically hungry on Sunday at all. > But when I started to get grumpy and dizzy, I figured eating was required. I > felt like I ate too much again on Sunday night. I didn't feel physically > hungry again until Monday afternoon - and no energy either. I feel like > there is a huge swing in my ability to 'honor my hunger' after a night out. > With thanksgiving and other events coming up, any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Amie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Hi Amie, Grumpy and dizzy sounds extremely hungry to me. It's only possible, though you would know better, that you were concerned about having overeaten Sat. night, and so maybe ignored or missed some eariler signs of hunger on Sunday? And you may had been too hungry by the time you ate Sun. to not eat a bit extra? That's my thought; I could be a bit off base or not, don't know. But it really IS ok! The way I see it is if you overeat Sat. night, then don't yell or judge; try and be very gentle with yourself and welcome hunger signals the very next time they come as a welcome sign that you can eat to self-nurture, to take care of yourself, and to get back in touch with hunger and intuitive eating. We all slip up, I'd say try and get rid of judgment and guilt and fear and just be confident that you'll notice you're hunger signals if you're in a mindframe to seek them :.) Good luck, Laurie Subject: Weekend Overeating My question is how do I recover from an overeating event? Obviously better to avoid it … but it happens. Last weekend, even though I did pretty well, I overate on Saturday night at a wonderful restaurant. I didn’t feel physically hungry on Sunday at all. But when I started to get grumpy and dizzy, I figured eating was required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 First step is that you must forgive yourself and honor and do something really nice for yourself. Stop the beating up of yourself. Yes, we all do this. I did it too after something very troubling and emotional happened to me this weekend. I was very grief stricken and decided to take care of myself by taking the day off of work and stay home and do the things that feel good to myself. I slept. I read. I did my cross stitching. All the things that ground me and fill me up. But that evening I decided (yes I decided) to eat a bit more than I usually do. I cooked a pretty good sized supper with apetizer, main course and desert. And I ate mindfully. I knew what I was doing. And when I went to bed I was over full. But because I did it mindfully and with permission to myself, I did not eat in the quantities I used to prior to IE 2 years ago, nor did I eat the crappy foods. And what I always come back to is that eating does not make the emotions go away. I still had to sit with my sadness, my grief, my anger etc. So the next step is to figure out what emotionally was going on with you to cause you to over eat. And as uncomfortable as it is, just be with those feelings. Don't judge or make wrong or try to push them away. Just breath your way through them. Eventually you will be able to come to a place of forgiveness, calm and peace. And the next time you won't over eat as much and each time it gets easier and easeir. Hope this helps, Alana > > My question is how do I recover from an overeating event? Obviously better > to avoid it . but it happens. > > Last weekend, even though I did pretty well, I overate on Saturday night at > a wonderful restaurant. I didn't feel physically hungry on Sunday at all. > But when I started to get grumpy and dizzy, I figured eating was required. I > felt like I ate too much again on Sunday night. I didn't feel physically > hungry again until Monday afternoon - and no energy either. I feel like > there is a huge swing in my ability to 'honor my hunger' after a night out. > With thanksgiving and other events coming up, any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Amie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 dEb, this is such a GREAT post! I especially like your mirror/blemish analogy - fabulous and so true too. Thank you very much for sharing - its 'frame-able' really :) ehugs, Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > Hi Amie: > Please dont avoid a special place or food if you truly enjoy it. You deserve as much as anyone else to treat yourself and really enjoy the pleasure of it. > > When you're sitting there eating something that is sooooooooo satisfying, just stay with that feeling. It comes from that part of you that has nothing to do with your mind and dieting and beating yourself up. It is a " higher place. " > > That's the part of you that will overcome what your mind thinks you cant. The mind thinks " surface " when the answer is nowhere close to it. It's sort of like looking in a mirror and seeing a blemish on your face and trying desparately to scrub away at the mirror to get rid of it instead of addressing where the blemish actually is. That is how I look at dieting - fiddling with the effect. > > Think about the events that happened around this episode. Sometimes certain things will " set us off " into old behaviors. It's easy to return to old behaviors - I'm still freaking out over getting weighed the other day and last night wondered why I'm stuffing my face. > > It's such a learning process to undo years and years of old habits that FEEL like they cannot be changed. But it is just a feeling. The feeling comes and the feeling goes. It has nothing to do with who we are. > > Go have fun on your holidays! Enjoy the life it brings you. > > Warm Hugs, > Deb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 First, be as accepting of the event and as gentle with yourself as possible. Then if you can relax enough, playing feelings 'detective' could help you understand the event for future potentially positive changes. And don't overlook that eating has been a working comfort mechanism for you too. It takes awhile, and some awareness/thought to find alternatives to replace or remove that 'comforting' need. Back to being gentle. AND some times you just 'havta' EAT, so giving yourself permission helps keep that from a build up to a (self) 'beat up'. BEST wishes and ehugs, Katcha IEing since March 2007 > My question is how do I recover from an overeating event?  Obviously better to avoid it … but it happens. > Last weekend, even though I did pretty well, I overate on Saturday night at a wonderful restaurant. I didn’t feel physically hungry on Sunday at all. But when I started to get grumpy and dizzy, I figured eating was required. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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