Guest guest Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Jeanne re-acquainting with your INternal feedback does take time and practice as well as concentration/focus when you first start this process. One of the difficulties I have had, and still have, is that I tend to eat fast and distracted too which makes feeling and recognizing these signals all that more easy to miss. Keep up the good efforts and heck why not enjoy the fact that you can eat what you want? One (baby?) step at a time will get ya' there too ehugs, Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > Maybe I'm as thick as a brick, but I'm having a bit of a problem grasping the concept of comfortable satiety. And wonder how it feels for others. Thanks. > > Jeanne > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Thanks for your feedback, Katcha! I also eat too fast and distracted but am trying now to be more mindful when I'm eating. Defining what "comfortable satiety" is for me and what it feels like will probably be a big challenge! Jeanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 For me comfortable satiety is only possible when I give myself complete permission to eat. When I do that it comes without effort. If I'm in a moment that I'm subconsciously restricting myself, I can recognize it now by my inability to stop at comfortable satisfaction. Until I work the restricting issue out, I have to be much more careful, eat more slowly, enjoy each bite, but it's still hard. Sara - In IntuitiveEating_Support , " Jimbodog02 " wrote: > > Maybe I'm as thick as a brick, but I'm having a bit of a problem grasping the concept of comfortable satiety. And wonder how it feels for others. Thanks. > > Jeanne > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 " Comfortable satiety " is such a subjective term. I could never figure it out. At first, it was to stop eating before I was uncomfortable/in pain. Based on my fluctuating definitions of " comfortable satiety " , there was quite a bit of difference in how much I permitted myself to eat! This was not working for me... I had read quite a few " intuitive eating, start eating only when you are hungry " books. None could really pinpoint " comfortable satiety " . Then I discovered a free online book called " The Science of Being Well " written in 1910! The author says to stop eating the moment you are not hungry anymore. Well, I tried this and was really mad because I couldn't beleive how little food it took to not be hungry anymore. But the truth is, this REALLY works and I am happy with it now! I still eat whatever I want. If you follow this for (I don't know) a couple weeks, you will know in your heart of hearts that this is a true, genuine approach to food, even if you are disappointed in how little food your body actually wants. > > Maybe I'm as thick as a brick, but I'm having a bit of a problem grasping the concept of comfortable satiety. And wonder how it feels for others. Thanks. > > Jeanne > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 My oh my do I love these basic and simple things! Thank you so much for sharing this point. ehugs, Katcha IEing since March 2007 >Then I discovered a free online book called " The Science of Being Well " written in 1910! The author says to stop eating the moment you are not hungry anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Hi, I'm smiling as I read your email because I was quite shocked by the amount of food it takes to reach that just full point. I was amazed that it was so much less than I'd ever imagined! My problem, one of them anyway, with stopping at that point was, and still is sometimes, that the portion looked like a diet portion :.) When on a diet I'd eat that much, but then when I'd get hungry I wouldn't eat again til a set time; so I'd starve for a couple hours at least. the difference now is, though the portion is smaller than I ever dreamed, I am feeling wonderful about how often I can eat throughout the day, and I NEVER let myself starve so in this regard it's totally different from my diet days. Sometimes I just need a big meal, but much more often than ever before I am quite content with stopping at comfortable satiety. But as Sara said in another post, if there's any restricting type thought in my head, I can forget stopping as I'll rebell against that thought; so I can't say "I must stop at satiety" or "I can't eat all this food". Stuff like that doesn't work for me. Laurie To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 4:34:47 PMSubject: Re: Comfortable satiety "Comfortable satiety" is such a subjective term. I could never figure it out. At first, it was to stop eating before I was uncomfortable/ in pain. Based on my fluctuating definitions of "comfortable satiety", there was quite a bit of difference in how much I permitted myself to eat! This was not working for me...I had read quite a few "intuitive eating, start eating only when you are hungry" books. None could really pinpoint "comfortable satiety". Then I discovered a free online book called "The Science of Being Well" written in 1910! The author says to stop eating the moment you are not hungry anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 This has been my focus as of late. I like the " stop eating when no longer hungry. " I am also a fast eater, and I know slowing down will help me recognize this point sooner. > > Maybe I'm as thick as a brick, but I'm having a bit of a problem grasping the concept of comfortable satiety. And wonder how it feels for others. Thanks. > > Jeanne > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 I eat too fast as well and many times eat while watching television so I'm a distracted eater. I'm trying to get away from these bad habits by staying focused on what I'm eating and how it tastes, taking a break between bites and staying more in tune with how satisfied I am. Most importantly and perhaps the most challenging is trying to determine what comfortable satiety feels like for me. The scale that Katcha mentioned in an earlier post has also been quite helpful. Have a great day everyone! Jeanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 " The author says to stop eating the moment you are not hungry anymore. " I'm glad that this is working for you intuitively but as a person who has erred on the side of restriction, I just wanted to warn others recovering from restrictive eating disorders to be careful with this idea. In the same way that others have said it was hard to tell they were 'satiated', I have struggled with knowing I was 'hungry' and in my dieting days I was a big fan of the 'eat only until you are not hungry' idea. When my standard of hungry was 'dizzy and shaking' then my standard of satiated became 'just before the point of being dizzy and shaking' 'just until my stomach stopped hurting' 'just until I could focus on my work'. A big thing for me was realizing that eating from more than one food group at a time (even though one might 'satiate' me for a little while, in the end having a variety of nutrients made me feel healthier than just having the fewest calories) and feeling some food in my stomach at the end of a meal was okay. But congrats to you on finding something that is helpful to you and others! (Also, I love reading really old instructional or self-help books and I am definitely going to look up that one! I have this great " Everyman's Guide " how to do everything book from 1884 with instructions on things ranging across molasses candy, mercury based facial treatments, train boiler repair, and opium based treatments for PMS). Cheers! ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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