Keep up the good work!

Great Site!

In the past 4 years I lost 120 lbs I have gained back 30 I am scared of gaining the rest back. I went back to my RD. she sent me to this web site I am ready to start I have ordered your book and I feel I am on my way.

Just finished reading the book. I must admit this makes a lot of sense to me. I have been calorie counting, eating healthy and exercising. However doing this I managed to lose a lot of weight but there has been a slow bounce back. It is hard to maintain a "diet" and I came to the conclusion that I could not continue calorie counting in this manner and wanted to be more like the normal (in weight) people in my life like my wife and other members of my family. I wanted to do it intuitively and so I stumbled across Intuitive Eating and other related books. Now I have started taking the steps and I hope to lose weight without dieting :)

Do you have any forms/worksheets to log hunger, fullness, satisfaction, progress on IE, et. If so, can they be emailed to me or how do i get them?

I wish I had bigger words than THANK YOU!! I am finally FREE from the prison I've subjected myself to for the past 25 years. For the first time in 25 years I feel beautiful and alive... and above all I have freedom and happiness. Your book "intuitively" called me to pull it off the shelf at the public library. I wasn't even looking for this kind of book. Although I had been walking around hopeless the past several years that there was no way out of this diet/body image prison. I had become resigned that I'm "stuck like this" for the rest of my life and felt such a deep inner sadness. I soaked in every page of your book and my life shifted in an instant!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!

I bought the book a couple of years ago. I joined a yahoo group for support but it wasn't for me. I started doing my best to follow the principles of intuitive eating and I started losing weight. Recently I have been getting away from it a little - I have a friend who is in a diet program and I've been getting sucked into some of her misery (not her fault at all!). I just figured out what was happening and I'm back to IE. I have more weight to lose, but I am finally on a path I can live with. The diet mentality is leaving me gradually. The whole program has really been working for me but I'd love to have some support somehow... not sure how to go about getting it. I feel somewhat alone in a world of dieters! But it's working for me. I know I'll figure out what to do. I'm just really glad I'm enjoying food and not beating myself up any more.

I'm happy to find this website. I discovered I.E. on a msn message board, then I found a great book called E.A.T. (Eating Awareness Training) by Molly Groger. Since then, I've gathered as much info as possible. I feel a little like Lisa, above. In the last year, due to a move and a lot of stress, I've gone from 130 to 152. I've binged and been on and off antidepressants, and binged some more. Recently, I reread my E.A.T. book and actually began following the advice (that I could never get myself to before) to eat all my food in one place with no distractions. I'm still relearning and I often find myself "prepping" an area to eat directly in front of the tv. Then I remember that eating is a pleasurable activity and is to be done on its own, and it's working well. My family is moving again, so it seemed like an extremely good idea to pack away my scale and go by how I felt and not let the numbers on a stupid scale determine whether or not I would be having a good or bad day! I followed this principle before, and it worked. I plan on following it again, and it will work. I also believe in positive thinking and visualization concepts/meditation. The I.E. message board went cold, so I'd love to stay in touch with other I.E.'s to help each other stay present and in the moment. Take care, JM

I want to learn how to be an intuitive eater!

I hadn't heard of intuitive eating when, a few years ago, I dropped from around 165lbs to around 140lbs by eating when I was hungry and stopping when I was full. I later went through a stressful year or two where I switched jobs and ended up binge-eating again. Around six months ago, I started trying to apply "eat when your hungry, stop when your full," again. I went from 179lbs to my current 158lbs. based on my previous weight, I'll probably lose more. What really made me sad, though, was a coworker recently pointed out my weight loss and asked how I did it. I explained the principle, and she said, "That doesn't work for me; every time I think about food I want food." I explained that I also wanted food every time I thought about it (hey, I love food), but I wasn't hungry every time I thought about it. She told me that she was unable to tell the difference between wanting to eat and needing to eat. I wonder how many people are out there who no longer know what hunger actually feels like.