Why can’t losing weight be automatic?

So my eating habits vary. Sometimes I eat more than others. Last weekend I preferred to focus on one food at a time, even invest time into fixing what tasted good. I began to wonder if I was on a binge, but that wasn’t it. Most of the time I waited for hunger, but still [...]

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Eating Eating

I’m trying to notice how much I eat and starting eating smaller portions. It’s a bit like being on a high wire, balancing in the rainbow area. I frequently have to talk myself off the ledge when I make a choice. But the choices are mine to make, and I’m developing the habits I’ll keep [...]

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FdH and conflicting diets

Why do other countries not do low-carb diets, yet weigh less?
My fundamental theory is portion size. They never were so inundated with advertising and “keeping up with the Joneses” that they developed the same greed disorder.
As I build my own diet plan, one that works for me for life, I see the discontinuity between German [...]

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High pressure for low numbers

I’m putting myself under high pressure to lose weight. The scale wiggles ominously around the same numbers, and I eat normally, but it’s too much to lose an unrealistic amount of weight overnight.
Bizarre to think that the scale has an accuracy of 3%, but I consider a day to day variation of 0.3% to be [...]

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South Beach Diet

The principles of The South Beach Diet (adapted from the Diet Survivors newsletter)

Exercise is separate from diet. Though important for health, it is not necessary for weight control. (I agree.) 

Simple carbohydrates, such as white flour, sugar, and potatoes, are causing the rising obesity in our country. (I do NOT agree that this is part of the [...]

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Sitting with hunger

It’s 5.30 p.m. and dinner won’t be for a while, but I’m hungry. Just had a couple of fructose wafers to tide me over, but the hunger is still clearly there.  Am planning what to eat, and when to go to bed. Tomorrow have an early meeting, so I want to be fresh for it.
Lunch [...]

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Woman on many missions

Trusting my abilities in ND and self-support, it’s time to turn my attention to the rest of my life. Today I find it hard to take time to meditate on this change, but am moving forward in other areas.
Work has a solid focus today. There were no major emergencies in my In-box this morning, so [...]

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A program for moving forward

Made good progress with NLP yesterday. Verbally stated my chosen principles over a hundred times, and wrote them for kinesthetic reinforcement a hundred times as well.
When I get up in the morning, my plans are not about fighting my ED, but about realizing my plans. Immediate plans, short term, long term. There’s a lot to [...]

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Living la vida skinny

My push for change is becoming more proactive.  Rather than waiting for my weight to disappear, then living like a naturally thin person, I’m choosing to live like the thin person and let the weight release itself naturally.
Rather than waiting for my satisfaction signals to find the appropriate point for weight loss, I’m doing more [...]

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Recovered

After reading through DDW, and making my choice, I confirmed what I had been thinking about recently: I am already recovered from BED, and I only have to move forward.  It wasn’t just a decision, it wasn’t an external judgement, but I recognized that I don’t compulsively eat and go through the vicious cycle of [...]

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