Re: Subconsciously Restricting

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Hi Sara,

It's fabulous that you did notice the slight restricting because you were able to get back into IE and stop restricting! That is awesome. (I love When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies).

I'm reading Koenig's book, and she talks about taking a path and realizing it's a dead-end and so then just back-tracking a tiny bit to get back on the right path. She said the first path wasn't a bad thing or a waste at all because you learned something from the detour.

Anyway, you sound like you're doing very well!

Laurie

Subject: Subconsciously Restricting

"I'm reading When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies ..."

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reflectionmommy wrote:

> But when I turned my

> attention to possible restriction, I realized I had slipped back into

> restriction. It wasn't some big decision to go hungry, just a slight

> psychological shift. It was more like a desire to not pay too much

> attention to hunger. Now I need to look back at the psychological for why

> I shifted back into slight restriction in my mind.

Thank you for this post. I tried to figure out why I overeat on weekends

when I don't have to go to work.

I already posted about this on another board and had great conversation

about it but your post seems to emphasize what I really do: restricting

again. Not so much the type of food but the amount.

Regards

s.

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Sara,

I think it's great that you made this realization. I love the self-awareness

that comes along with IE. I am learning so much about myself, and it's really

quite amazing. It's also amazing how little I really knew about myself

beforehand. This was a great little lesson about yourself that you can keep with

you throughout your IE journey. In my opinion, little " setbacks " like this are

actually a good thing as long as you take the time to learn from it. Each time

you're able to work through it and move on, you are the much stronger and wiser!

>

> I'm reading When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies very slowly. Part of the

reason I'm going so slowly is because I currently have an aversion to facing all

that psychological stuff that goes alone with compulsive eating. My life has a

lot of stress in it right now, and I tend to just shut down emotionally when

that happens.

>

> I've had a relapse in recent weeks in not wanting to stop eating when I was

satisfied. I really couldn't understand why, so I've just been kind of waiting

for it to go away. The book goes into great detail about either looking for

ways that you're continuing to restrict or look for psychological issues that

might be rearing their head. I've been focusing on the psychological and some

things resonated. But when I turned my attention to possible restriction, I

realized I had slipped back into restriction. It wasn't some big decision to go

hungry, just a slight psychological shift. It was more like a desire to not pay

too much attention to hunger. Now I need to look back at the psychological for

why I shifted back into slight restriction in my mind.

>

> With my personal history of going hungry nearly every day in my non-IE days, I

really have to diligently remain consciously committed to eating whenever I'm

hungry, period. Actually, I need to eat whenever I want to. If I feel any

restriction I start overeating. It's amazing to me how I can just so

subconsciously slip back into a slightly restrictive mindset. I'm also amazed

at how quickly I can slip back into IE once I realize it, but it gets annoying

to keep going back into those mindsets without even realizing it. At least it

dawns on me quicker now.

>

> Sara

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