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0-5 eating

Jun 21, 2010 04:00pm gratefull Total Posts: 13	Hello Everyone, I’m still reading “Food Jail” and am finding it extremelly helpful. I’m starting a weight related group on June 29th and plan to have everyone reead Jean’s book(s). I got a little scared for a few days because I was feeling heavy and was eating too much. I’m feeling much better, just making sure to eat whole healthful and somewhat lower fat food choices when I feel hungry. I just ate 6 oz. of raspberries. Yum! I have been in a group that encourages 0-5 eating from hunger and fullness. I had a little trouble with this because I found I was still restricting and not eating enough. I was still pre-occupied with food and didn’t feel satisfied. Now I’m just eating when I feel hungry and stopping when full. I hope my fullness gage wil go down after a few weeks but for now I’m not worrying about that. I just want to continue to heal from disordered eating and believe I am gaining ground. Anyway, I am so encouraged by the book and it describes my relationship with food to a tee. I have been restricting and then binging for almost 5 decades. It’s hard to believe how quickly binges disappear as well as cravings, when one is full and satisfied with whole real food. Yesterday I slipped back into old behaviors, after having an early dinner on Father’s Day (I ate until full., Around 5 p.m., I got hungry again and started snacking on snacky types of food and ended up eating a pleasure food. I realized I should have made myself a sandwich of whole, real food and then I would have been satisfied and wouldn’t have felt I needed those snacks and the pleasure food. At least it wasn’t a binge. Today, I have learned from my mistake and am moving forward by the grace of God and with His help. I realize how much of a restricter I have been since my early teen years and the effect it has had on my appetite and biochemical brain chemistry. My body has taken a lot of abuse but ishapily responding, as I feed it with choice foods. My it is exciting to know I can stoke up my metabolism by eating more, lower fat, real foods and stay full and satisfied/binge and craving free. Thank you so much Jean for your work and books. I am recommending them to everyone I know who has this problem. Grate-full (really full today)

Jun 22, 2010 12:32pm naturally thin Total Posts: 381	Grate-full, You’re welcome—I wrote the books for you. Jean

Aug 03, 2010 12:44pm FreedomSeeker Total Posts: 1	Hi Grateful, I have a couple of questions for you, if you don’t mind. I think I’ve been involved with the same 0 - 5 program as you were. I’m just wondering a couple of things as I’ve also read the NT book and have been thinking about both “programs”. I think they are similar and both have a lot of good things about them. Anyway my questions are: Do you still use the 0 to 5 hunger scale to determine when you are “full” or “satisfied” or do you have some other way that you determine when to stop eating? Do you find that the need to think about real foods v. other foods makes you obsess about food more?

May 28, 2011 09:09pm raglanrose Total Posts: 7	that’s my question too. 0-5 eating made me feel too hungry as well, but what is fullness? maybe I should keep reading the book, but I did read it before and don’t remember that.

Jun 02, 2011 09:58pm Beth Total Posts: 111	Hi Raglanrose, Your post probably got missed because the Naturally Thin Forum is where all the action is. :) I’d pop over there and repost. I’m only about three months into this so far, so I’m no expert, but I’ll tell you what I’ve learned. Full feels really satisfied, but not stuffed. Food has lost its appeal, I’m not wanting to keep on munching aimlessly. I can get involved in something else and the food is not still calling my name (one of the best parts of being well fed is not thinking about food except when I actually am hungry). At that point, not even pleasure food sounds tempting. I can almost tell the bite that puts me into the “I’m done” category. Swan mentioned a couple days ago that when she was a kid, she’d eat naturally until she was full - even if that meant going and getting a piece of cheese from the fridge. She remembers it distinctly. Do you have memories like that? That’s the feeling to get back in touch with. I would guess, but am by no means sure, that if you are not sure where full is yet, you probably haven’t eaten enough to get there. I don’t know how long you’ve been working on this, but if you’re still new, give it some time. Sometimes you have to be well fed on a consistent basis for a little while before full becomes obvious.

Jun 03, 2011 05:49pm raglanrose Total Posts: 7	thank you beth, I think I freak out so much about that full feeling that I stop too soon, or bypass and freak out. I need to just relax a little:)

Jun 03, 2011 06:26pm Beth Total Posts: 111	Please join us over on the other forum too. It’s such a good group and so helpful and supportive and inspiring. I have really learned so much from them!!

Jun 03, 2011 09:10pm raglanrose Total Posts: 7	where is the other forum?

Jun 03, 2011 09:11pm raglanrose Total Posts: 7	oh nevermind I see it

Jun 04, 2011 05:07pm Beth Total Posts: 111	okay - the naturally thin forum…that’s where the action is. come on over and join us! :)