Re: Awesome day! Had to share!

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That was an awesome day!! Congrats!!

Subject: Awesome day! Had to share!To: IntuitiveEating_Support Received: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:50 PM

After my numerous posts lately about the difficulties I've been having, I figured I just had to let you know I had a great day today!I LOVE oatmeal with slivered almonds and brown sugar. I used to eat it every morning before I developed my eating disorder. The other day I finally gave in and bought slivered almonds so I could have it again. I had it for breakfast this morning and it was so satisfying. It was also crazy filling so by the time I got my break at work around 1 I still wasn't hungry, but I ate the pop tarts I had brought anyway because I felt my energy going down by the minute. After work I felt hungry but knew I was making vegetable lasagna for dinner and didn't want to fill up on something else and not be hungry for that, so I ate some carrots with italian dressing (that was the only thing that appealed to me to be honest) and while I was making the lasagna I had some ricotta cheese as well. I made lasagna rolls instead

of a traditional lasagna and I usually eat two but being that I had just filled myself up a little on cheese I opted to just take one at first and take it from there. One actually got me perfectly full and PLENTY satisfied! It wasn't about the calories or anything, I was perfectly happy with just one, even though all along I had planned to eat two. When dinner was done my fiance and I each had two squares off a Hershey's cookies and cream candy bar (he bought a jumbo one when we went grocery shopping today) for dessert. It was so yummy and though I usually eat an entire candy bar myself (regular sized though I wouldn't hold it past myself to eat a jumbo one!) I was content with my two squares. I am just so proud of myself! Like I told my fiance, I usually feel as though I am missing out on something if I'm not eating and it almost feels "wrong" or weird to be 100% satisfied. I didn't want to eat anything and I didn't even want to open

the cupboards to look and see what we had "just in case" I forgot we had X food and wanted to eat that. It's these days that keep me going!Now if only my headache would go away.

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Thanks for sharing your wonderful success story. Once you know you can have it all and don't have to "diet" anymore, isn't it amazing how you realize you don't even want it all?We always tend to want what we can't have.SharonSubject: Awesome day! Had to share!To: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:50 PM

After my numerous posts lately about the difficulties I've been having, I figured I just had to let you know I had a great day today!

I LOVE oatmeal with slivered almonds and brown sugar. I used to eat it every morning before I developed my eating disorder. The other day I finally gave in and bought slivered almonds so I could have it again. I had it for breakfast this morning and it was so satisfying. It was also crazy filling so by the time I got my break at work around 1 I still wasn't hungry, but I ate the pop tarts I had brought anyway because I felt my energy going down by the minute.

After work I felt hungry but knew I was making vegetable lasagna for dinner and didn't want to fill up on something else and not be hungry for that, so I ate some carrots with italian dressing (that was the only thing that appealed to me to be honest) and while I was making the lasagna I had some ricotta cheese as well. I made lasagna rolls instead of a traditional lasagna and I usually eat two but being that I had just filled myself up a little on cheese I opted to just take one at first and take it from there. One actually got me perfectly full and PLENTY satisfied! It wasn't about the calories or anything, I was perfectly happy with just one, even though all along I had planned to eat two.

When dinner was done my fiance and I each had two squares off a Hershey's cookies and cream candy bar (he bought a jumbo one when we went grocery shopping today) for dessert. It was so yummy and though I usually eat an entire candy bar myself (regular sized though I wouldn't hold it past myself to eat a jumbo one!) I was content with my two squares.

I am just so proud of myself! Like I told my fiance, I usually feel as though I am missing out on something if I'm not eating and it almost feels "wrong" or weird to be 100% satisfied. I didn't want to eat anything and I didn't even want to open the cupboards to look and see what we had "just in case" I forgot we had X food and wanted to eat that. It's these days that keep me going!

Now if only my headache would go away.

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It is really helpful to read about a day like this. Thanks, and I'm very happy

for you.

Thea

>

> After my numerous posts lately about the difficulties I've been having, I

figured I just had to let you know I had a great day today!

>

> I LOVE oatmeal with slivered almonds and brown sugar. I used to eat it every

morning before I developed my eating disorder. The other day I finally gave in

and bought slivered almonds so I could have it again. I had it for breakfast

this morning and it was so satisfying. It was also crazy filling so by the time

I got my break at work around 1 I still wasn't hungry, but I ate the pop tarts I

had brought anyway because I felt my energy going down by the minute.

>

> After work I felt hungry but knew I was making vegetable lasagna for dinner

and didn't want to fill up on something else and not be hungry for that, so I

ate some carrots with italian dressing (that was the only thing that appealed to

me to be honest) and while I was making the lasagna I had some ricotta cheese as

well. I made lasagna rolls instead of a traditional lasagna and I usually eat

two but being that I had just filled myself up a little on cheese I opted to

just take one at first and take it from there. One actually got me perfectly

full and PLENTY satisfied! It wasn't about the calories or anything, I was

perfectly happy with just one, even though all along I had planned to eat two.

>

> When dinner was done my fiance and I each had two squares off a Hershey's

cookies and cream candy bar (he bought a jumbo one when we went grocery shopping

today) for dessert. It was so yummy and though I usually eat an entire candy

bar myself (regular sized though I wouldn't hold it past myself to eat a jumbo

one!) I was content with my two squares.

>

> I am just so proud of myself! Like I told my fiance, I usually feel as though

I am missing out on something if I'm not eating and it almost feels " wrong " or

weird to be 100% satisfied. I didn't want to eat anything and I didn't even

want to open the cupboards to look and see what we had " just in case " I forgot

we had X food and wanted to eat that. It's these days that keep me going!

>

> Now if only my headache would go away.

>