Day 1 Intuitive Eating

I'm going to diarise my progress with this because I really need to do it. Watched this video last night & something that hit home was when she said "you will probably lose weight doing this if you are eating when you're not hungry too often" and that's me! I'm not going to weigh myself, focus on what my body looks like or do anything but try to accept my body and love it for what it is.

Then I read this Article from intuitiveeating.org about emotional eating, and the client in the case study really didn't admit he had a problem with emotional eating, but then the counsellor noted the fact that if he's eating past satiety then clearly he has a problem with emotional eating because why else would he do it? And I really realised this too. Another thing it helped me realise was that, like the client, I am concerned about giving up my attachment to food because it has really helped me through a few things. But, to be honest, I'm not giving up food entirely - just taking back the control. And in reality, I'm going to enjoy my favourite foods MORE because there'll be no guilt.

I'm a little concerned, at this point, about putting on weight before my wedding - because I always go a bit mad when I start 'intuitive eating', eating all sorts of things, but this time I'm going to let myself explore 'forbidden' foods, but I'm still only going to eat when I'm hungry. The question I will ask myself is 'Do I want this now, or later?' to remind myself it's still an option later when I'm actually hungry and 'Will I feel good if I eat this now?' because I get worried all I'll want is glutenous sugarey carbs and they make me feel so awful, so being aware of how they make me feel will help.

Today I ate:

5am: -3 Hunger Chobani, honey & muesli +4 Satiety
7am: 0 Hunger Long Black
8.30am: -2 Hunger LF Soy hot choc with 2 marshmallows +3 Satiety
10.30am: -3 Hunger Wholemeal cheese, avo, chobani & chilli con carne toastie; Banana bread piece +4 Satiety
5pm: -4 Hunger Pumpkin ravioli with tomato pasta sauce, parmesan & baby spinach; Magnum Ego Satiety +4
6.30pm: Tea

Wow. I can't believe I actually didn't eat between lunch and dinner. Like that's really amazing. And although I did eat lots of sugarey, carb dense foods, I know at the moment that's me really wanting to get them out of my system, and I know I'll get bored of that. All in all, I'm so proud of myself. I ate when hungry, stopped when satisfied enough and forgot about eating in between! I never forget about eating. It was because I was hungry and told myself I could have pasta and a magnum for dinner but wanted to be hungry for the magnum so decided to eat dinner early enough so the magnum could come later and I wouldn't need a snack in between.

I'm really excited now.

For exercise I cleaned the house including mopping and vacuuming, putting washing away and also did 3 laps of the park.