Geneen Roth's TeleWebcast Tonight

Geneen Roth, the author of Women, Food, and God, is conducting a free teleconference (or you can listen on the web) tonight at 8:00PM.  I think it will be very good and I am going to just listen.  You can still register by going to http://askgeneenroth.com/.

Hunger or Appetite?

Got to the part in the book that is the big issue for me:  We all give meaning to losing weight or gaining weight.  The author says, "My life is lost unless I eat every single time for the next twelve years when I am hungry.  I am such a failure that I can't even figure out when I am hungry."  BINGO!  I struggle with the fear that I can't tell the difference between really being hungry and just wanting to eat because I have an appetite for something, anything!  I hope that when I reread this book and keep working these issues out,  I will learn the difference!!

Restrictor or Permitter or Both?

Read several things in the book that hit home today.  Roth talks about Permitters (who eat pretty much what they want whenever they want) and Restrictors (who only feel in control when they follow a strict set of dietary and exercise guidelines - this includes those who are anorexic and/or bulimic).  She says that people can go back and forth between the two and I sure can see myself as both.  When I'm on a certain diet (like Weight Watchers which has worked very well for me twice now), I am obsessive about following the plan and don't depart from it.  If I do, I feel out of control.  I also know when I've been a Permitter - when I feel completely deprived on a diet, I run the opposite way and eat what I want.  The thing that resonates so much with me is that the author says Permitters eat because the food is there and because they feel like it and not because they eat what they want when their bodies are hungry and then stop when they've had enough.  You have to listen to what your body wants and not what your mind wants.  Oh boy, do I ever need to learn how to do that!  I registered for Geneen Roth's tele-conference call for Thursday night.  I didn't send in a question even though I could have and she might have chosen to answer it, but I want to listen to what she has to say.  It's a 70 minute call and I'm looking forward to it.  Still struggling to really understand everything in this book and will start reading it again when I finish - which will be soon.  I AM ENCOURAGED!

Great Desktop App!

Just found a great desktop application called "EveryDRINK" and it's on the MeYouHealth site that I found on Facebook.  You set the hours of your day, tell the app how many glasses of water you want to drink and it creates a destop app that will tell you when to get a drink of water.  Really cool...if you haven't responded to your desktop reminder, you can set it up to send yourself a text message on your cell phone!  Drinking more water has got to help, right?

First Day!!

Just set up the blog and I've never done one before let alone set one up!  I've been reading "Women, Food, and God" by Geneen Roth for awhile now.  I am about halfway through the book and still struggling with understanding the content.  I feel like it is exactly what I need to finally deal with this weight and health issue once and for all.  Today I read about "The Voice" and I'm trying to process that.  If anybody has any insight into that or this book, let me know!  I think I will read through the rest of the book and then start over and read it again!  I have signed up for email updates from Geneen Roth (the author) and she is having a teleconference this Thursday (1/27/2011) that I'm thinking about registering for since it's free and I would like to just listen to her talk!