Food limits?

Shit! As all our allies seem to head to the left side of the political spectrum we have gone against the grain and have gone right. It was a very sad moment, especially when our now ex prime minister gave her conciliation speech. She did a good job as our prime minister for 9 years [...]

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Pig in a trough

So I thought I would give everyone an update on my eating patterns. I have only been eating when hungry. Truly hungry. At first it was quite scary because every other time I have attempted to do this I get really anxious and want to eat because I feel Im starving myself. A return to [...]

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Fear of hunger

Sometimes in life your behaviours swing like a pendulum. So at one stage in your life you might be at one end such as trying to starve yourself by dieting and obtaining perfection. Then when you cant achieve this you give up and swing to the opposite end and just gorge because your so afraid [...]

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Intuitive eating or lack thereof

Since I have returned to NZ I have found it difficult to get back into intuitive eating. Basically I have been using ‘intuitive eating’ as an excuse to eat whatever I want and boy do I. I cant seem to stop eating pies and other fatty foods.  As a result I have become a bit [...]

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The goodbye binge

Well just when things were going good I had my goodbye party. All was going well for about 30 seconds and then I started munching on snacks. Damn snacks!! Basically I didn’t stop because the host decided to have an early dinner. So I had hamburgers and hot dogs and salad. By the time I [...]

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The satisfaction factor

So one of my regular commenters gave me a great idea for this blog. Also I think it is an extremely important idea to bare in mind also while intuitive eating. 
Think of a perfect meal you have eaten recently. Whatever it was it was perfect in every single way. For me Im thinking of a [...]

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A binge on the road

At present I am traveling for the next two weeks before returning home to New Zealand. I am staying in a hostel this week and with my friend in New York next week. So now that I am in transit I find myself bingeing like crazy. It is so depressing and I hate feeling this [...]

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Breaking the Binge Cycle

In this post I want to talk about the binge cycle and how this can be overcome by intuitive eating. Studies on binge eating show that during the morning a binger,  or dieter, will be full and wont want to eat but by nighttime they cannot stop eating and no matter how much they eat [...]

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A Good Day

Today I felt like I was back into a good eating rhythm again. I made sure that I ate every three hours in order that I would not get too hungry and start to binge. It worked! My concern was that I would not be hungry after this amount of time and so would be [...]

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Taming the Ravenous Beast.

Today was better than yesterday but also disappointing. At lunch I went to a restaurant and ordered a panini, which is exactly what I felt like, but instead I was given a sandwich, which is not what I felt like. I ate it slowly and tried to savour it as much as I could considering [...]

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