Re: Giving oneself permission

[Guest guest]

Hi Jo,

First, congrats to you for your huge accomplishment! You let go of the diet

thoughts, if only for a meal, and experieced peace within yourself. That's HUGE,

and you should commend yourself for that.

I am exactly where you are. I'm a newbie to IE, and have been " plagued " by diet

thoughts for a very long time. It's incredible the amount of peace you get when

you eat what your body wants, and forget the calories or eating what you think

you're SUPPOSED to eat. That's what got us here in the first place, right?

As for the dieting thoughts and when they'll stop, it's a good question. I think

that factors such as 1) How long you've been dieting, and 2)your willingness to

try IE wholeheartedly and confront your relationship around food will play a big

role into diet thoughts. It's quite possible that diet thoughts, altho a much

softer voice, will always exist (societal prressures, etc) but your practice in

IE will triumph.

I guess that's why they say IE is a journey...not an end result.

Best of luck on yours, and know that you have a forum of people here to support

you.

Best,

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> I've read several posts here about giving oneself permission to have it if one

wanted it. I've had diet thoughts again and have been fighting eating whatever;

however, today I tried giving myself permission and felt a sense of calm and not

one diet thought until I just posted of course. When will these thoughts of

diet go away? I don't want to make the diet industry leaders richer.

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> Thanks,

> Jo.

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[Guest guest]

I still struggle with diet thoughts too, but I find if I stay away from diet

books, magazines, websites, etc., I don't think them as much. Keeping garbage

out of my head really clears my thoughts.

At the end of the day, I think it just takes practice. Those dieting thoughts

took time to develop, and healthy thoughts take time to develop too.

McKella

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> I've read several posts here about giving oneself permission to have it if one

wanted it. I've had diet thoughts again and have been fighting eating whatever;

however, today I tried giving myself permission and felt a sense of calm and not

one diet thought until I just posted of course. When will these thoughts of

diet go away? I don't want to make the diet industry leaders richer.

>

> Thanks,

> Jo.

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