This is something I struggled a lot in the beginning with and still have to push past from time to time now since I'm still in recovery. I would feel "disgusting" and question why am I eating when full when the end goal is to be able to listen to my body's hunger cues. Thankfully, I have an amazing dietitian and counselor who helped push me. For anyone struggling with this, your digestion does get better if you keep at it. Meals that would make me bloat and fill me up before don't cause me issues now. Instead, I feel really good and energized after eating them. It helped me, at first, to do this before I went to bed since I used to struggle falling asleep. Feeling full always helped me deal with insomnia. You could do this before taking a nap as well.
I liked this video a few months ago and I wish I could give it another thumbs up. This concept of rewiring eating when not hungry helped me so much not to get stuck in my recovery. Thank you so much for this video and for all of your work.
Once again, absolutely amazing insight and motivation. Thank you Tabitha. I do have one question though that i find play on my mind as I try to let go of calculating everything. I want to fully believe in health at every size, however I wonder, how and why can a person become genuinely unhealthily overweight? If we were to listen to our body's needs to become our natural set point, what causes a person to go over this? Again thanks for everything. Xx
Couldn't concentrate on what you were saying because of the cats. Which is a good thing because they made me smile :) I know they were playfighting, but what with Stinky's paw around Dave they looked like they were cuddling, so sweet ♡
i like what you said about seeing things in a different way. That's been helping me recently - seeing the more difficult things as opportunities to do some extra healing work on my brain and strengthen the healthier neural pathways. It helps me transform my view of it from pointless distress to currency to get me something i desperately want. Thanks for kind of formalising it into words for me. It helps me be more concretely aware of the idea so i can practise it more deliberately if that makes sense.
I think a lot of challenges we've got because of ED restrictions that we've made so long time ago that even can't realize they are real restrictions. My example - may be help - I restricted myself to drink tea or coffee with white sugar/honey more than 10 years ago. When I started recovery, I started eating all kind of sweets that I'd restricted. And I put honey in my tea. And then I continued drink just pure tea. I was glad that I didn't have cravings about tea and white sugar. Like you know my body doesn't want it. How great this is! The truth is - that I lied to myself. I've been restricting drinking tea with sugar for so long that I was afraid to put a spoonful of white sugar in my cup of tea! How ridiculous it sounds!? When I realized it, I forced myself to drink tea with sugar. I remembered, how you say that we should rewind our brain. And you know what? I've been drinking this damn tea for several days now like non stop because this is what my body really wants after I stopped restricted. So, be honest with yourself and take challenges.
Tabitha, if you have low weight bulimia, I think the opposite happens, your stomach stretches because of bingeing, and then you never feel full. Can you do a video on this pls. X
Do you think that feeling full easily also has to do with the metabolism slowing down? Because symptom that I also had was getting constipated as well as feeling full easily
Tabitha I have this question coming to my mind. If eating intuitively brings you to your optimal weight, how much would I have to eat to become overweight? I think this would help me to eat enought to realise it is not from couple cheesecakes or pizzas I will become overweight...
I don't know if you ever got a reply, but this is a very complex topic. People become overweight (I'm talking unhealthy and overweight, not healthy but chubby) by damaging their metabolisms, which is why you can become overweight initially in recovery (if you weren't before) but continuing fixes weight issues. Peoole say they are overweight and only eat 1XXX calories, and this is often the case because they've been sedentary for many years, or eaten those foods you mention like cheesecakes etc in vast quantities every day. Often this damage is done in childhood, because it takes years to happen, and most people don't often make poor dietary changes that last that long. You can look at how people develop insulin resistance for the dietary issue I'm talking about. But don't be scared, takes literally 10-20 years or more to develop. You're not going to be on bed rest and eating a cheesecake every day for 10 years straight.
Tabitha I adore you and wanted to ask you something so important. Need your advice as I'm at a delicate stage of recovery, need a little guidance and a reality check I spose, as atm I'm listening to voices that could possibly trigger a relapse. Im just in panic mode atm. Whats the best way to contact you? Via email? If so what's your email? X
The cats stole the show on this one. How adorable!
This woman has literally saved my recovery. Thank you so much Tabitha 💓💓💓💓💓
How are you doing now ?
This is something I struggled a lot in the beginning with and still have to push past from time to time now since I'm still in recovery. I would feel "disgusting" and question why am I eating when full when the end goal is to be able to listen to my body's hunger cues. Thankfully, I have an amazing dietitian and counselor who helped push me. For anyone struggling with this, your digestion does get better if you keep at it. Meals that would make me bloat and fill me up before don't cause me issues now. Instead, I feel really good and energized after eating them. It helped me, at first, to do this before I went to bed since I used to struggle falling asleep. Feeling full always helped me deal with insomnia. You could do this before taking a nap as well.
I liked this video a few months ago and I wish I could give it another thumbs up. This concept of rewiring eating when not hungry helped me so much not to get stuck in my recovery. Thank you so much for this video and for all of your work.
I can't take my eyes of the lovely cats !!!
how you can talk seriously with Dave and Stinky in the background. So funny
Once again, absolutely amazing insight and motivation. Thank you Tabitha. I do have one question though that i find play on my mind as I try to let go of calculating everything.
I want to fully believe in health at every size, however I wonder, how and why can a person become genuinely unhealthily overweight? If we were to listen to our body's needs to become our natural set point, what causes a person to go over this?
Again thanks for everything. Xx
Sing it Sista!!!❤
Your kitties grooming and playing with each other was such an irresistible distraction from your excellent advice. Lol!
Omg just loving the cats!!!
Couldn't concentrate on what you were saying because of the cats. Which is a good thing because they made me smile :) I know they were playfighting, but what with Stinky's paw around Dave they looked like they were cuddling, so sweet ♡
i like what you said about seeing things in a different way. That's been helping me recently - seeing the more difficult things as opportunities to do some extra healing work on my brain and strengthen the healthier neural pathways. It helps me transform my view of it from pointless distress to currency to get me something i desperately want. Thanks for kind of formalising it into words for me. It helps me be more concretely aware of the idea so i can practise it more deliberately if that makes sense.
I think a lot of challenges we've got because of ED restrictions that we've made so long time ago that even can't realize they are real restrictions. My example - may be help - I restricted myself to drink tea or coffee with white sugar/honey more than 10 years ago. When I started recovery, I started eating all kind of sweets that I'd restricted. And I put honey in my tea. And then I continued drink just pure tea. I was glad that I didn't have cravings about tea and white sugar. Like you know my body doesn't want it. How great this is! The truth is - that I lied to myself. I've been restricting drinking tea with sugar for so long that I was afraid to put a spoonful of white sugar in my cup of tea! How ridiculous it sounds!? When I realized it, I forced myself to drink tea with sugar. I remembered, how you say that we should rewind our brain. And you know what? I've been drinking this damn tea for several days now like non stop because this is what my body really wants after I stopped restricted. So, be honest with yourself and take challenges.
Tabitha, if you have low weight bulimia, I think the opposite happens, your stomach stretches because of bingeing, and then you never feel full. Can you do a video on this pls. X
thank you again for another amazing informative video :) xxx
Do you think that feeling full easily also has to do with the metabolism slowing down? Because symptom that I also had was getting constipated as well as feeling full easily
Tabitha I have this question coming to my mind. If eating intuitively brings you to your optimal weight, how much would I have to eat to become overweight? I think this would help me to eat enought to realise it is not from couple cheesecakes or pizzas I will become overweight...
I don't know if you ever got a reply, but this is a very complex topic. People become overweight (I'm talking unhealthy and overweight, not healthy but chubby) by damaging their metabolisms, which is why you can become overweight initially in recovery (if you weren't before) but continuing fixes weight issues.
Peoole say they are overweight and only eat 1XXX calories, and this is often the case because they've been sedentary for many years, or eaten those foods you mention like cheesecakes etc in vast quantities every day.
Often this damage is done in childhood, because it takes years to happen, and most people don't often make poor dietary changes that last that long.
You can look at how people develop insulin resistance for the dietary issue I'm talking about. But don't be scared, takes literally 10-20 years or more to develop. You're not going to be on bed rest and eating a cheesecake every day for 10 years straight.
Tabitha I adore you and wanted to ask you something so important. Need your advice as I'm at a delicate stage of recovery, need a little guidance and a reality check I spose, as atm I'm listening to voices that could possibly trigger a relapse. Im just in panic mode atm. Whats the best way to contact you? Via email? If so what's your email? X