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Ordered the IE book
Happy to have found this group. A long time ago tracking calories worked for me for a pretty long time. Then I needed a break, would gain a few back, return to calorie counting, decide a few days in that I’m going crazy and need to eat “normal” as I was missing out on certain meals with family because I didn’t have enough…
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Intuitive Eating Check-ins
I just wanted to give an update on kind of where I am in this whole process, and would love to hear how you all are working through this. I know that some of us will go through this and realize logging food is not a big deal, while there are others of us (ahem, myself) who really do need to let it go. But this is where I…
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Brownies
I came across this while reading IE and thought it was very fitting, especially coming off of this holiday weekend. “Here’s a favorite story that illustrates this principle. Let’s say that you are a dieter who has been carefully following your diet for several weeks. Your diet is low-fat and prohibits any kind of sugary,…
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how to Have Your Cake and you Skinny Jeans Too - by Spinardi
Has anyone else read this? I've been trying to be an intuitive eater (on and off) for years now, going solely by the IE book. I could never figure out why I couldn't stick with it, or why I gained weight, or why I kept going back to dieting. This book by Josie Spinardi has really helped me to figure it out! She isn't a…
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MFP tracker
Just curious, how many of you still track on MFP? I have found that for me, it is impossible to be both an intuitive eater and a tracker. I simply cannot do both, because I get into that diet mindset when I track. But because I love the MFP community so much, I switched my diary up to help me to stay away from tracking. I…
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bland food experiment...
I'm really bad at listening to my hunger signals, especially when eating my favorite foods (which are mostly very rich tasting). I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to experiment with focusing ONLY on listening to hunger signals for a bit. So I'm going to try for a meal or two a day to make my food bland, just so that…
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Week 1-What Kind of Eater are you?
This week we will be looking at what type of an eater you are. Many of us who have been dieting a long time can probably identify with one or more of these eating styles. For your homework this week, think about what type of eater you are and discuss! The Careful Eater- -very nutrition/health concious, to the point of…
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Week 4-Challenge the Food Police
Hows everyone doing? There have definitely been some ups and downs (as usual) with me! I will think I am doing great and then BAM! I seem to struggle all over again. Im not calling this a failure, though...its all part of the journey. I don't know if you all are on there, but I stumbled across Go Kaleo's facebook page,…
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Too much thinking?
As I am still making my way through the book, I keep thinking that there is too much "thinking" involved to eat intuitively. Perhaps it is because I read it at night before bed, and I am tired and trying to process all the questions to ask yourself just seems like a lot late at night. Maybe after it becomes ingrained in…
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Week 3-make peace with food
Well this week builds on what we've already been working on-ditch the diet mentality and honor your hunger. Last week we talked about giving yourself unconditional permission to eat when you are hungry. Now we are taking that a step further and saying give yourself unconditional permission to eat whatever you want. Yes…
