Posted in hunger, intuitive eating, portion control, tagged how to stop eating on 23 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
It generally doesn’t take many bites. If I’m really hungry, the first bites are like heaven itself. Afterwards, I notice that I am still hungry, but the flavor intensity has worn off.
Lately, I’ve had a strong signal that it’s time to stop eating. First, I look at the next bite, and I get this “blech” [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, goals, intuitive eating, weight loss and diets on 23 April 2008 | No Comments »
It doesn’t matter which intuitive eating process you choose, how many therapists you do or don’t have, which diet you want to follow.
What does matter are the choices you make in each moment - what you eat or don’t eat, what you say to yourself, what you listen to, how you create your own environment.
Everything [...]
Posted in intuitive eating, tagged geneen roth, retreat on 12 April 2008 | No Comments »
Note: this is an aid to Diane, who asked my opinion about the retreat. I do NOT have any experience at the new retreat center near Monterey Bay.
I went to a Geneen Roth retreat in San Diego years ago. Her books had initiated me into the world of intuitive eating, and the retreat was the [...]
Posted in binging, emotions, goals, hunger, intuitive eating, tagged go ahead and eat the whole damn thing, how to stop eating when you're not hungry, How to stop mindless eating on 6 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
See also my post on How to stop eating when you’re not hungry
Whenever you eat mindlessly or when you are not hungry, the root cause is simple: you are responding to your mind’s needs rather than your physical needs. This might be emotional eating, or habit eating, or whatever. The fact remains, it’s not what [...]
Posted in affirmations, intuitive eating on 5 March 2008 | No Comments »
At every meal, you are serving 2 guests: your body and your soul - Epictetus
Over the weekend I tried a new vegetable: Savoy cabbage. It’s the most beautiful cabbage, with all kinds of little folds. It has a beautiful dark green color, which gets lighter the deeper you go.
I made a casserole, by sauteeing thin [...]
Posted in binging, goals, intuitive eating, positive self-talk, tagged weight gain on intuitive eating on 1 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
At the beginning of February, I decided to do a couple of things:
My plan: do a stomach hunger and lower calorie diet. All foods are still allowed, I’m just going to pay attention to eating less and getting fewer calories overall. Exercise is for fitness, not weight loss. I’ll weigh in once a month and [...]
Posted in hunger, intuitive eating on 22 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Something broke through tonight, but I’m not sure what.
The past few days I’ve been eating in odd patterns. Sometimes I’ve experimented with eating “barely-full” portions, comfortably full portions, and not eating when I’m not hungry. I had a couple of vegetarian days, and did a great job of portion control early in the week.
Then things [...]
Posted in intuitive eating on 14 February 2008 | 2 Comments »
My last experience with a diet program was in 1990, when I subscribed to Physician’s Weight Loss. I lost weight down to 177 pounds, and Bam! became pregnant. This ended the diet, of course, rather annoying the “physician’s assistant” whose job was to weigh me in and sell me supplements. The next day I celebrated [...]
Posted in affirmations, binging, hunger, intuitive eating, weight loss and diets, tagged 200 pounds, stopping overeating, why we overeat on 6 February 2008 | No Comments »
Life’s greatest adventure is finding your place in the Circle of Life. - Lion King
Pulling food out of the trash can. Sneaking bites of frosting in the office kitchen. Hollowing out the inside of a pastry and putting it back. Eating one M&M after another until you feel like your stomach will burst. Letting the [...]
Posted in intuitive eating, weight loss and diets, tagged non-diet diet, what do intuitive eaters eat on 2 February 2008 | No Comments »
The idea of a diet for an intuitive eater seems rather incongruous for some readers. Some of you have asked what I eat, and how I control something that’s supposed to be “intuitive.”
The intuitive part is easy. While I am an intuitive eater, I don’t have a lifetime of practice behind me, and I need [...]
