Comments on: My stats May 1 ‘08 http://livingrainbowcolor.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/my-stats-may-1-08/ My rainbow life, in living color Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: livingrainbowcolor http://livingrainbowcolor.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/my-stats-may-1-08/#comment-573 livingrainbowcolor Fri, 02 May 2008 14:50:08 +0000 http://livingrainbowcolor.wordpress.com/?p=534#comment-573 Hi Juliet, you have hit on one of the most important questions. What I have come to understand is that intuition is not a black-and-white thing. As I discovered hunger, I discovered that I can be satisfied at different hunger levels. I can be rather rather full, slightly full, or hardly full at all, depending on my other needs. The body sends hunger and fullness signals in order to meet its needs, which is to keep all of its cells supplied with energy. It doesn't notice if the body is larger than the person wants. The idea that the intuition a person has is the intuitiion to go to a much lower weight is simply false. I want to be smaller, so I have to keep my eating habits on the weight-loss side of satisfied. At the same time, if intuitive eating means it's ok to eat whatever you want, it's also ok to eat to lose weight if you want. It's the extremes of either direction that are bad. Hi Juliet, you have hit on one of the most important questions. What I have come to understand is that intuition is not a black-and-white thing. As I discovered hunger, I discovered that I can be satisfied at different hunger levels. I can be rather rather full, slightly full, or hardly full at all, depending on my other needs.

The body sends hunger and fullness signals in order to meet its needs, which is to keep all of its cells supplied with energy. It doesn’t notice if the body is larger than the person wants. The idea that the intuition a person has is the intuitiion to go to a much lower weight is simply false.

I want to be smaller, so I have to keep my eating habits on the weight-loss side of satisfied.
At the same time, if intuitive eating means it’s ok to eat whatever you want, it’s also ok to eat to lose weight if you want. It’s the extremes of either direction that are bad.

]]> By: Juliet http://livingrainbowcolor.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/my-stats-may-1-08/#comment-568 Juliet Thu, 01 May 2008 14:27:38 +0000 http://livingrainbowcolor.wordpress.com/?p=534#comment-568 I guess I am just confused as to how an "eating plan" works with intuitive eating. It's great to want to eat more healthfully, if that's what your body is telling you... but why involve the word "diet" or "plan?" Obviously, looking at that chart, IE has helped you over the years... I guess I'm just not sure why you'd want to risk that by deviating from the true principles of IE. I wish you the best... and I do understand wanting to lose weight. I just know that for me dieting will only make that happen short term. I guess I am just confused as to how an “eating plan” works with intuitive eating. It’s great to want to eat more healthfully, if that’s what your body is telling you… but why involve the word “diet” or “plan?”

Obviously, looking at that chart, IE has helped you over the years… I guess I’m just not sure why you’d want to risk that by deviating from the true principles of IE.

I wish you the best… and I do understand wanting to lose weight. I just know that for me dieting will only make that happen short term.

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