tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35397867.post5325259098176058981..comments2012-01-30T14:01:49.986-08:00Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162110766373517916noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35397867.post-64786127128353382672012-01-30T14:01:49.986-08:002012-01-30T14:01:49.986-08:00I am a TOTAL emotional eater. I am trying now to really see if I am hungry, or just bored or angry. Sometimes it&#39;s hard to tell...Logical Libbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00107961721466815295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35397867.post-65494340213920782882012-01-26T14:41:08.117-08:002012-01-26T14:41:08.117-08:00The stomach definitely shrinks! I&#39;m afraid to drink alcohol because I lose that sense of whether or not I&#39;m full, and then oftentimes it just makes me hungrier. That eating to 80% fullness thing sounds really familiar ... I eat really slowly so hopefully that will help keep me in tune with when I&#39;ve had enough. <br /><br />TTT - I like the push-away thing. Like, once that&#39;s happened, meal-time is over!Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162110766373517916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35397867.post-18491665097425807142012-01-26T09:46:56.258-08:002012-01-26T09:46:56.258-08:00I used to use a push-away method to keep myself from eating everything. My problem was that I lived alone for so long, and ate a lot of packaged foods that were intended as family meals... and never would set aside leftovers. It was a bit ridiculous, and I&#39;m not in the worst of shape, but I didn&#39;t need to be putting myself through that.<br /><br />So I started to purposely leave something on my plate at each meal. It worked out pretty well, and was second nature... primarily during lunch. But then I fell out of it again.<br /><br />Although, all is good now, since I&#39;m actually in a family environment and food is more evenly distributed. ::nods::<br /><br />And, I want mac&#39;n&#39;cheese with bacon now.The Twisted Tinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575455017637686228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35397867.post-6309756172269786712012-01-26T07:00:49.588-08:002012-01-26T07:00:49.588-08:00I can&#39;t speak to the bulimia issue - I&#39;ve never fought that battle but I know many people who have (including my mom) and I think it&#39;s probably different for everybody.<br /><br />What&#39;s interesting to me is the appetite stuff. I&#39;ve been cutting back, and I&#39;m doing old-fashioned calorie counting, in conjunction with an increase in veggie consumption and a carb reduction (not elimination, I still eat a few berries and all-bran with my yogurt in the morning), and I&#39;ve found my appetite has gone way, way down. I&#39;m not sure what&#39;s causing that - it could be that I&#39;ve cut out booze (SOB!) or that I&#39;m not exercising (between gyms) but it&#39;s really interesting to me to suddenly not be ravenous at noon, and to push away half of my dinner un-eaten. <br /><br />Related: I recently read this article about how there are places in Japan where the eating habit that&#39;s promoted is to eat until you&#39;re 80% full. It makes so much sense to me - since they say you can&#39;t tell you&#39;re full for like 20 minutes. Stop eating at 80%, and you&#39;ll feel full enough after about 20 minutes.Serial Monogamisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06240343915323669214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35397867.post-91858732448017539882012-01-25T13:28:22.300-08:002012-01-25T13:28:22.300-08:00Mandy -- I was really curious what you would think of this approach. The author was herself bulimic for many years and said she&#39;d tried years of therapy and different medications until she stumbled across a book on alcohol addiction that caused a light-bulb moment for her. It seems ridiculously simply when you&#39;re applying it to a serious issue like bulimia, and I obviously can&#39;t speak to its effectiveness in that regard. I just hope that it works for overeating! I think that what is true is that the scientific community isn&#39;t really sure how to &quot;cure&quot; bulimia, and I don&#39;t think they completely understand the root cause (not that there need be a singular root cause). In any case, I am so glad that you found ways to rid yourself of bulimia. I think that is completely amazing.<br /><br />WC - I downloaded it on kindle ... Try the book&#39;s site, they have a few links to different sellers. http://brainoverbinge.com/default.aspxErinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162110766373517916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35397867.post-78206491734010099842012-01-25T13:14:49.335-08:002012-01-25T13:14:49.335-08:00I can&#39;t find this on Amazon Canada! Grr. Is this a new release in the States?<br /><br />It looks really good and from what you say, the method is reasonable.Wandering Coyotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478039463695542535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35397867.post-53126905699472602112012-01-25T12:55:09.088-08:002012-01-25T12:55:09.088-08:00Hm. I&#39;m uncomfortable with this because they&#39;ve got &quot;bulimia&quot; on the cover and for the author to suggest that bulimics can overcome something like that by treating the disorder like a bad habit is off-putting to say the least. <br /><br />I battled that disorder off and on for 20 years and it was a harrowing experience. It took ten years of therapy and twenty years of Buddhism for me to overcome it. Not that my path is the path for every bulimic. But for the author to imply that it&#39;s simply &quot;mind over matter&quot; to overcome an eating disorder, a deeply emotional and psychological disorder at that, as though it&#39;s just a bad habit is sort of infuriating to me. But to each his own. I&#39;m obviously going to be super sensitive about this topic.<br /><br />I&#39;m going to go eat some french fries now so I feel better.<br /><br />Just kidding!Mandy_Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05561598721266208665noreply@blogger.com