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Introduction Text I am at the highest weight in my life. I've struggled with disordered eating off and on throughout my life. I am currently trying to heal my disordered eating through practicing intuitive and mindful eating. I find that intuitive eating is helpful in healing disordered eating. However, its phiilosophy of never trying to modify your behavior ever again in order to adjust your size, that you are healthy just as you are and will eventually just arrive at a higher set point which you should just live with and at which you should be happy with yourself just doesn't quite fit for me. I have just become too heavy to the point that it is unhealthy. I truly do need to incorporate more than just gentle movement in my life and lose the weight. I don't want to look upon this as a diet. I am not going to be restricting or ruling out any specific foods or food groups because that will only trigger disordered eating for me. I am just modifying my portions and being more mindful when I eat so that I follow my satiety cues. I am also trying to move more. Eventually I will acquire strength, muscle, and flexibility, and I anticipate that this journey will become easier as the weight starts to come off. I recognize this is a gradual process. The method I have chosen will take time, but I do not believe or support fad diets. I've seen too much the damage they can do, and people just suffer to lose the weight initially and then eventually suffer as they inevitably gain it back. Emergency Emotional Eating Prevention List: Examine Logic - If you would eat healthy foods instead of your craving, you are hungry. If you only want to eat your craving, it is a craving. Distract yourself and resist it. Slow Down and Cue All Your Senses -- Be Mindful Throw Out Trigger Foods If You Can't Control Yourself Go For a Walk and Talk Problems Out With God/Pray Journal Fill Up on Water Sip Hot Tea Brush Your Teeth Pet a Cat or Two Walk Your Dog Read a Book Call a Friend Exercise -- Great Mood Booster! Sexual Activity -- Great Mood Booster! Shower / Take a Relaxing Hot Bath Distract Yourself Constructively Do Something to Keep Your Hands Busy Knit / Crochet Listen to Music / Sing / Dance Watch a Good Movie. Food Not Included. Do Reiki -- Relaxes You, Relieves Anxiety Meditate (Breathe In, Breathe Out -- It really is that simple.) Get a Massage Go to Sleep Find Your Joy! Binge Help: Avoid that first compulsive bite. The bite that is compulsive is the one you know will send you into a binge frenzy. Prevent the first compulsive bite and you prevent the binge. Be careful with your emotional triggers that lead to you reaching for food as a comforting tool and HALT before that first compulsive bite. H.A.L.T. = Hunger. Anger. Loneliness. Tired. Just some of the many feelings that lead us to reach for food. Before you even reach for the food, ask yourself what you are feeling and distract yourself while you figure it out mentally. Once you know why you want to eat and what the root cause is, do something about it or decide not to. Make it your choice, your decision; put things in your hands again. You are now in control. Mindless Eating Prevention List: No eating when not hungry No eating while watching t.v. or movies No eating while doing anything than distracts focus away from eating No eating while simply bored No eating as something to do No eating as a way to put off something you don't want to do No eating after cruising the kitchen absent-mindedly; cruise on.

Goals: -learn to truly manage the urges to emotionally and mindlessly eat -really strengthen my right ankle and my gluteus medius -go from being morbidly obese to obese then to being just overweight then to residing within a healthy body weight range -be able to walk 4 mph for at least an hour -cinch my waist and boost my booty sexy (get my curves back) -weigh 150 lbs, my normal weight, and being optimally fit

I am currently walking, dancing and Turbo-Jamming. I also occassionally do the Core Secrets DVDs to work out and am trying to incorporate resistance band training into my exercise routine.

I live in Iowa, and my nickname is Sage.



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