Posted in affirmations, hunger, tagged Julia Roberts, runaway bride on 20 January 2008 | No Comments »
Not eating is good self-care too.
Loving myself and taking care of myself is hard work. Instead of waiting for DH to suggest something to do, I am responsible for making my own dreams come true. But I’m finding it quite difficult to know what I want.
Last week a radio station was advertising that they will [...]
Posted in hunger, intuitive eating on 17 January 2008 | No Comments »
My quiet time before bed last night was my first experiment with the idea of loving myself methodically. Based on my learning as written in yesterday’s post, I simply spent my time reminding myself that no one can love me like I can, and that I must love myself fully if I want to permanently [...]
Posted in hunger, tagged identifying hunger on 3 January 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in affirmations, binging, hunger, portion control, work, tagged self-care on 17 November 2007 | No Comments »
Taking good care of yourself varies depending on the situation. When you are looking for a new job, it’s good self-care to get plenty of rest and concentrate on keeping up your “interview mindset.” When your car is heading towards a wall, it’s good self-care to drop the cell phone and brake.
Yesterday I finished my [...]
Posted in emotions, hunger, intuitive eating on 2 November 2007 | No Comments »
When your work is so interesting that you don’t want to think about anything else
When you are sitting in the Vice President’s office, trying to keep up with the conversation
When you are helping someone else write their screenplay (He promised me a screen credit!)
During an earthquake, when you are experiencing stark raving terror as the [...]
Posted in emotions, hunger, intuitive eating, jon stewart and stephen colbert on 20 October 2007 | No Comments »
My emotions around my not getting the job have stayed the same as my last post. I’m totally happy that I didn’t get it. I own my mistakes, which include interviewing badly and not choosing properly before applying. And I’m perfectly content to move on.
Eating is one of the surest signs of moments in which [...]
Posted in binging, hunger, portion control on 22 September 2007 | No Comments »
After that few days, I began to wonder if my portion sizes would stay so small. Today I notice that they are pretty much back to normal. Yesterday I ate quite normally at lunch, and when we went out to dinner, I cleaned my plate. Today has been much the same, and I am most [...]
Posted in hunger on 21 September 2007 | No Comments »
I’m hungry! Or I’m not. Have you ever noticed that you think you’re hungry, but when you eat, you are satisfied with so little that it makes you wonder if you were hungry at all?
What I’m finding out now is that hunger is very relative. Over the last few years, I cut portion sizes and [...]
Posted in hunger, intuitive eating on 15 September 2007 | No Comments »
To follow up to yesterday’s post, here are a number of links to other people’s hunger and fullness scales. Enjoy them, use them, learn from them, but always be true to yourself.(Quaker Oatmeal has a hunger scale? Yikes! Also, Paul McKenna’s scale is pretty.)
http://www.quakeroatmeal.com/qo_managingWeight/kids/teachHealthyEating/article.cfm?articleid=382
http://www.skyone.co.uk/mckenna/hunger_scale.htm
http://www.thedietchannel.com/Learn-to-Recognize-Your-Hunger-Cues.htm
http://www2.oprah.com/health/bob/bestlife/diet/basics/basics_scale.jhtml
http://web.mit.edu/medical/pdf/hunger_scale.pdf
http://life.familyeducation.com/nutrition-and-diet/weight/46753.html
http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/dhpw/Wellness/NutritionTarmacWaiting.doc
http://www.weightlossresource.com/library/showarticle.cfm/id/1160/
http://www.weight-loss-motivation-program.com/weight-loss-tools-hunger.html
http://weightoomuch.wordpress.com/hunger-scale/
http://myintuitivedailybread.blogspot.com/2007/04/hunger-scale.html
http://www.thecancerblog.com/2006/12/25/the-hunger-scale-avoid-eating-mindlessly/
http://intuitive-eating.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-hunger-scale.html [...]
Posted in hunger, intuitive eating, positive self-talk on 14 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hunger and fullness is a continuum. You can be a little hungry, or a little more hungry, or a lot more hungry. You can also be just not hungry anymore, satisfied, full, rather full, quite full, and so on until you feel like you’re going to explode.
Some people go to the effort of devising [...]
