My stats May 1 ‘08
1 May 2008 by livingrainbowcolor
My plans are in place, and I’ve been working them for about a week. A little before I started this plan, I was absorbing information from Oprah/Eckhart Tolle and Inside Out Weight Loss’ Renee Stephens. Those are the main guides I am currently using to increase my presence and build my current plan.
How am I doing? I like what I’m practicing with respect to changing my beliefs and changing my eating habits. I like that I’m eating less, eating more veggies and fruit, and more at peace with my food choices and life choices. One odd thing, I found myself with a low-level compulsion to eat yesterday, but it was weak enough that reminding myself of my goals took care of it. My suspicion is, the cause was my intent to step on the scale this morning. I still feel slightly nervous sailing for a whole week (or the whole next month) without stepping on the scale.
Here’s the chart of my weight. Click on it to get an in-focus picture. I don’t know what’s up with WordPress at the moment. While I’ve only been doing this plan for a week, my intuitive eating weight loss has gone on for several years. You’ll see that I have lost almost 15% of my considerable body weight.
Has this plan been successful? Judging by the scale, it’s too soon to tell for sure, but probably yes. I’ll measure again on June 1, and will compare the weight with the changes in habits to see if this is actually useful.
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.
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.