Don’t need this in my life

Moving from emotional eating to intuitive eating requires a big change in thinking.
For me, food was punishment and comfort at the same time. I would whip myself into an anxiety frenzy, then turn off my brain and start eating. The eating was accompanied by thoughts like “Why are you doing this? You’re so fat – [...]

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How to lose weight with intuitive eating

Fundamental physics is still fundamental physics
The formulas are as complex or as simple as you like.
Weight = (current weight) + (weight from food eaten) – (weight from energy expended)
This is true every single moment of every single day. If I eat a pound of food or drink a pound of water, I gain a pound. [...]

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Stop figuring things out

Figuring things out sounds like an admirably intellectual thing to do, right? “Once I figure out why I overeat, I’ll be fixed. Once I figure out why he said that, I’ll get over it. Once … Once… Once….”
It’s a trick. Your critical voice wants you to keep figuring things out because constant “figuring out” lets the critical [...]

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My own little IronWoman

OK, so maybe it’s a bit farfetched to think of me ever doing an Ironman competition. First I’m highly non-competitive. I hate competition. Sure, winning is nice sometimes, but I could live quite happily in a world without competition.
But I have been able to be far more active since I changed how I talk to [...]

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Binge triggered by the movie Cashback?

Today I looked at my goals again, as you just read. I’m starting a week’s vacation, and I made a nice list of things to do, mostly for fun. I also listened to a podcast or so, to help me move along a bit.
Where did I move? Straight to a few hours of endless eating. [...]

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Update on May goals

I looked back at my goals for this month, and decided to make some changes.
First I’ll pay more attention to them, because I’ve been paying too much attention to the scale and not enough attention to the rest. The scale has been quite annoying, because I promised myself that I would not get on it [...]

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Stop overeating by building more happiness

When I feel good and occupied with my life, I don’t overeat. Therefore, the more good feelings I can bring into my life, the easier it will be for me to eat intuitively.
Here’s a list I just made of things I like and do not like. My intent is to recognize the Do Not side, and [...]

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Success journal entry for today

In my last post, I said I would open boxes, yadda yadda. I’m happy to report that I was highly successful at being a non-couch potato person all day.
First, I did spend my time in the half-finished attic, cleaning and organizing, just like I planned. I opened boxes, moved boxes around, designed a new layout [...]

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Opening boxes, finding resistance

May is a wonderful month in Germany. We had a holiday last week, another one on Monday and yet another in the week thereafter. So I’m going to enjoy today by getting up off the sofa and cleaning out the old belief that I cannot make my house the way I want it.
My intent for [...]

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Sending “clumsy” out into the universe

Man-o-man, this is a dangerous day for me. I woke up normally after a 4 day long weekend. I”m fully refreshed, ready to work.
As we hop into the car to drive Dear Daughter to school, I start to make little critical comments. First, Dear Hubby, who used to criticize DD for not fastening her seat [...]

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