Enjoying life the intuitive way

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd
In this season of diets and deprivation, I have chosen to enjoy my life rather than deprive myself. Some examples:

Giving into food cravings: I indulged myself twice yesterday in salads, which were delicious. Today I’m already looking forward [...]

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Improved Closure Skills = Control Over Food

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
- Martha Graham
This quote moves me deeply. “Inviting the perfection desired” - how many years did I actually want to KEEP my ED? More than [...]

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Attentively eating and identifying hunger

1800 calories is what I ate today, more or less. I’m just roughly estimating, since I’m not really trying to stick to any certain number. Add to that 4 hours of shopping walking, and I’m in pretty good balance for today, even though, a good portion of those calories was chocolate.
I notice that I have [...]

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Kaegi-fretli, or chocolate cookie cravings

This year has a slightly different theme compared to last year. I’m more aggressive in eating less, and trying to lose weight while still eating intuitively. We’ll see how things go. Last year I lost a significant amount of weight, but don’t know how much, since my scale is broken and I’m in no hurry [...]

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Happy New Year! and a good start with body image

Hi everyone! Here’s a video to start off the year.
It’s by Dominic Davies, a psychotherapist, and reviews the basics of feeling better about your body. It includes affirmation tips, etc.
If for any reason the link doesn’t work, go to videojug and search on feel better about your body.
The link (wordpress doesn’t yet allow embedding from [...]

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