Guest guest Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Welcome! I am about your age (23) and have been doing IE for the past 6 months. It's a lot of work, but definitely worth it! Have you read any books about IE? > > I'm new too Eileen. I have a little bit of a differnt story. I've been struggling with binge eating/dieting for 15 years and I'm 25 years old. I am proud to say that i have stepped off the dieting bandwagon for good and have been toying with IE for about 3-4 months now. > > I am of an " average " weight - but have long known that if I didn't " get control " of my bingeing that would most definitely change as the years went by. I am getting better at legalizing foods, but continue to struggle with binges, guilt, and waiting for hunger. > > I am so excited to get to know you all, learn from you, encourage you, and get encouragement while trying to break out of the diet world. > > Happy New Year! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 I'm about half way through Break Free form Emotional Eating by Geenen Roth and I am about half way through the original Intuitive Eating book. Both are fantastic and life changing. I'm trying to ease through them - there are a lot of changes they suggest that is a lot to swallow at one time. I joined this group to learn from others, so i would love to hear your experience with IE - how are you doing? What do you struggle with? Have you lost weight? I am still in the weight gain/plateau phase myself. would love some encouragement =) ~ > > > > I'm new too Eileen. I have a little bit of a differnt story. I've been struggling with binge eating/dieting for 15 years and I'm 25 years old. I am proud to say that i have stepped off the dieting bandwagon for good and have been toying with IE for about 3-4 months now. > > > > I am of an " average " weight - but have long known that if I didn't " get control " of my bingeing that would most definitely change as the years went by. I am getting better at legalizing foods, but continue to struggle with binges, guilt, and waiting for hunger. > > > > I am so excited to get to know you all, learn from you, encourage you, and get encouragement while trying to break out of the diet world. > > > > Happy New Year! > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Welcome . I know just where you are coming from. So much to learn, so little time - ha ha. When I first read about not dieting I couldn't have it in my life fast enough either. And the reality is that you do have it! But its like a little babe - small and not ready to be a fully participating human - yet. So like a little baby, we nurture it as it can take that sustenance, be gentle and loving as the baby grows and encourage it to take on what it is able to as it wants and can. reading a book and then expecting to 'be' what it says immediately is a set up for failure. That is exactly what dieting does, set us up for 'failing' due to its unforgiving (and impossible?) RULES as well as telling us we are the 'problem'. PHOOEY! The only problem I have found is that I would try to 'be' what OTHERS seem to think I SHOULD be. As you can tell I have done lots of work with dumping diet mentality - lol. I have also learned to be kind to myself as well as not try to DO EVERYTHING all at once and 100% correctly either. This is a gift for myself - to embrace IE, let it seep into my life and return to the internal, self functioning body that I always had, but didn't honor well enough. That has changed a LOT and I am most happy with it. Weight is no longer a factor for me - it is what it is and only a reflection of my own actions in my life. I can and do make more positive choices based upon that instead of chasing the carrot on a stick that is misleading and a flat out LIE known as dieting. BEST to you, Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > > > > > I'm new too Eileen. I have a little bit of a differnt story. I've been struggling with binge eating/dieting for 15 years and I'm 25 years old. I am proud to say that i have stepped off the dieting bandwagon for good and have been toying with IE for about 3-4 months now. > > > > > > I am of an " average " weight - but have long known that if I didn't " get control " of my bingeing that would most definitely change as the years went by. I am getting better at legalizing foods, but continue to struggle with binges, guilt, and waiting for hunger. > > > > > > I am so excited to get to know you all, learn from you, encourage you, and get encouragement while trying to break out of the diet world. > > > > > > Happy New Year! > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Thanks for the comment Katcha. I just feel so desperate to hear from people who have conquered this successfully and come out the other side. For SO long I felt that binge eating was some kind of freakish incurable disese i had that i would never be able to stop. There are days now that i feel i am making siginificant progress with IE and then days i think i've barely started this " journey. " I suppose that might be a diet mentality i still foster - " when will it be over? " " when will i have arrived and be at peace with all of this? " Being a patient person is never something i've been accused of Regardless though, i'm this thing for the long haul. ~ > > > > > > > > I'm new too Eileen. I have a little bit of a differnt story. I've been struggling with binge eating/dieting for 15 years and I'm 25 years old. I am proud to say that i have stepped off the dieting bandwagon for good and have been toying with IE for about 3-4 months now. > > > > > > > > I am of an " average " weight - but have long known that if I didn't " get control " of my bingeing that would most definitely change as the years went by. I am getting better at legalizing foods, but continue to struggle with binges, guilt, and waiting for hunger. > > > > > > > > I am so excited to get to know you all, learn from you, encourage you, and get encouragement while trying to break out of the diet world. > > > > > > > > Happy New Year! > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Hi : I conquered my long term (35 years?) bingeing habit last year. I haven't binged at all now for almost 10 months. Perhaps understanding that I chose to binge, rather than that I was the victim of some 'bingeing' disease which I couldn't control, helped me decrease my binge habits over the years. However, what initially helped me to eliminate bingeing was committing to stop eating when I felt moderately full, no matter what, when or how much I had eaten or how I felt emotionally at the time. That 'moderately full' boundary allowed me to eat for emotional comfort sometimes, to eat anything I wanted and even start eating when I wasn't really hungry. Legalizing foods helped prevent guilt from eating a 'bad' food or feeling so deprived that I wanted to binge. Also I realized that I had many points of intervention, when I could decide to end a simple overeating episode, rather than give into bingeing. Most of all I refused to let myself say " Oh what the heck, I might as well binge, because I already screwed up by eating the wrong foods (or at the wrong time or too much). " Removing the 'oh what the heck' excuse changed my bingeing to simple overeating. Now I'm learning to stop eating when I feel comfortably, rather than obviously full, because I allowed myself to stop at obviously full to prevent the guilt that previiously triggered my binges. SUE > > Thanks for the comment Katcha. I just feel so desperate to hear from people who have conquered this successfully and come out the other side. For SO long I felt that binge eating was some kind of freakish incurable disese i had that i would never be able to stop. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Sue, Thanks so much for elaborating on your process. I've been doing something similar but didn't articulate it to myself so clearly. This is really helpful. Happy new year, > > Hi : I conquered my long term (35 years?) bingeing habit last year. I haven't binged at all now for almost 10 months. Perhaps understanding that I chose to binge, rather than that I was the victim of some 'bingeing' disease which I couldn't control, helped me decrease my binge habits over the years. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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