Intuitive Eating

I'm announcing to everyone that I will never go on another diet, ever. I've been dieting for as long as I can remember and the only thing it has done for me is made me fat! The more I starve myself, the more I eat and the fatter I get. Does that sound familiar to any of you? A very brave friend gave me a book a year ago for Christmas called "Intuitive Eating". (You have to be truly brave to give someone a diet/non-diet book!) Should I feel insulted? I decided not to think about it and just read the book. I loved it, but I decided I would lose weight first and then I would fully embrace intuitive eating. This translates into me wanting to, but not really believing this could work for me. So I did my little WW diet and I killed myself working out twice a day for four months and lost 35 pounds. I was the master! Until, I got tired of it all and stopped completely. I gained a few pounds and then I went on a cruise and gained 10 pounds (that's mandatory for crusing). Then I gained a few more pounds. Eventually I went right back up to where I started from a year ago. Then the thought hit me. I should try Intuitive Eating!

I wish I had thought of that a year ago before my latest roller coaster ride. I already knew I would never diet again. I couldn't force it upon myself. Not even one more time. The whole process is pure misery and guaranteed to fail. Isn't it? Do you know anyone who has gone on a diet and kept the weight off? Some people claim to but how long do they keep it off? I kept my weight off for two years after doing WW the first time. I thought I was the greatest success story ever told. I preached my WW doctorine to anyone who would listen and dozens of people joined in my footsteps. Was I some kind of goddess? Maybe, until that fateful day. The day I had surgery on my tonsils. The ultimate in starvation. I couldn't eat anything for days. I couldn't eat normal food for weeks. I was wasting away and loving it. The skinnier the better, right? I didn't care that everyone told me how sick I looked. My dream of becoming anorexic had finally come true! (That was the "sick" part.) Until I started feeling better. I couldn't help but make up for lost time. I started eating foods in quantities that I hadn't eaten for three years. The ultimate in binging. I gained a few pounds but, no harm done. I would just start doing Weight Watchers again after the Holidays. I had done it before and it was easy. Except that it wasn't easy. It was really, really hard. I didn't want to diet again. I was above dieting wasn't I? I was the queen of fitness and health. Instead of losing those few pounds I gained a little more. Up and up the scales went without stopping. That brings us up to a year ago when I was given the answer but I was too blind to follow.

So now I'm an Intuitive Eater. My lastest in health and fitness crazes. Or is it? Can I really do this for the rest of my life? Can Lara Gallagher really stick with something for more than a few months or a year? Let's see...I eat anything I want. I eat whenever I want. I exercise if I feel like it. I lose weight. Yep. I most definately can!