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Intuitive Eating & Weight Watchers
If you are looking at combining Weight Watchers with Intuitive Eating, this is a helpful discussion, with good advice on how effectively combine the approaches.
You can participate in the discussion, adding to the thread or asking a question anonymously in the supportive PEERtrainer community.
For those of you that have done both Weight Watchers and Intuitive Eating, I'm curious what your thoughts are about each approach to weight loss. Did one work better than the other? Were you able to use Intuitive Eating and actually choose healthy choices or did you eat burgers and fries until you were back to your original weight or higher? Did you find one or the other easier to stick to?
I am NOT interested in reading WW bashing, but am looking for true, thoughtful responses from people who may have tried both approaches.
Thu. Aug 24, 7:25am
I started Weight Watchers online some time ago, and now am interested in intuitive eating. It seems to be the 2 are not compatible...just because it's really another way of not trusting your hunger and trusting yourself! I still struggle with that, good luck!
Friday, August 25, 2006, 7:37 PM
hello....i am doing both. on the one hand the programs compliment each other b/c IE is about "honoring your hunger" and "eating what looks good" and WW tries to include all foods by assigning a point value. the difficulty for me is that if i know something has a 21 pt value (3 scoops of icecream) i will not eat it as i'm only alloted 20 pts a day! IE says that "i shouldn't have that" mentality sets us up to binge and feel guilty (which leads to falling off the wagon...). i originally did WW 3 years ago and lost 50 lbs only to regain most of the weight a year and a half ago... the past 6 months i've been doing points to lose weight (again!) and just started reading IE last week! so the thought of throwing dieting out the window for life is quite scary...
anyway, enough about me. if you are interested in losing weight sooner rather than later, definitely try weight watchers. not all people gain it back. if you are interested in getting off the diet hamster-wheel, try IE. supposedly, you may gain or maintain in the beginning of IE but your body eventually settles into a natural weight... a much longer process. i can't say if i'd recommend beginning both at once though.
Friday, August 25, 2006, 10:40 PM
OP Here
Thank you both for your comments. I've been doing WW for about 4 months now (I've done it in the past with success as well, but stopped and gained the weight back). WW has been working for sure, but a part of me thinks that if I could learn to trust and listen to my body and eventually lose the weight that way, it would be a lot better because I'll be able to keep it off. Still need to finish the book though...
Monday, August 28, 2006, 8:09 AM
Try checking out the CORE program on WW. It is more like IE....they talk about eating to satisfaction, etc. However on CORE, you eat from a list of "good foods" and then use your flex points for ones not on the list. I found that I was making healthier choices and not worrying about portions and weights, etc. when I was doing Core...so, you might look at it as a start toward IE.
Monday, August 28, 2006, 9:23 AM
I just started on IE within the past few months; I've had a five lb gain but stopped there. I still work out and I still make healthy choice - I just don't deny myself if I really want something.
For example if I want ice cream for dinner I have ice cream for dinner. This hasn't happened yet, but nachoes have lol. Nachos is something I majorly denied myself because of how "bad" it was for me.
I had nachos for dinner the very first night I started getting into IE; it was fantastic. But just because you're on IE does not mean you can't choose healthy foods. In the past I would have had the toritilla chips, tostios cheese, olives, full fat sour cream, ground hamburger and chives. When I did it this time I decided that I could have the nachos but I could make healthy choices without sacrificing taste. So I bought fat free sour cream, turkey hamburger, baked my own tortilla chips (basically you just bake a tortilla in the oven and break it into pieces...not quite the same but still yummy), olives, and tostios cheese and added a small side salad. I ate less calories, actually ate less food because I stopped when I was hungry since I knew I could have it again any time I wanted to, and there was less fat. Plus I was completely satisfied and didn't find myself reaching for a snack in the evening time.
For me IE is the answer to many tears and prayers. I'm starting to lose weight now - slowly, but it is coming off. I don't feel deprived, I don't obsess over what I eat or what I way and I work out because it feels good.
I do like the way the core for WW sounds though, sounds very similar to IE - the only difference is with IE you don't count anything at all. You just eat what your body truly wants. I find that on a lot of days I want a big salad for lunch; which has never happened to me before.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 1:23 PM
I don't know what intitive eating is! But I love the new WW core. I am really learning to eat healthy. I have had pretty good weight losses but Ijust can't afford the 1$12 a week . I think i am just gonna do the core and get encouraged through PeerTrainer.
Thursday, August 31, 2006, 11:31 PM
Great job on the weight loss so far!
I joined the WW online group with their free seven day trial to see what the core is like. It looks like a good plan; but it's not the same as IE; IE is more like the flex points system without the point counting. You eat whatever you want. The only catches are you only eat when you're hungry and stop as soon as you're satisfied and you have to honor your body's hunger.
Friday, September 01, 2006, 12:01 PM
I don't do WW, but I do monitor calorie intake. When I started IE and really followed the eat when hungry deal (but no forbidden foods! what a release and a relief from jail), I found that a healthy intake (1400 - 1500 cal) felt good too in the satiety department. A recent vacation set me back (social eating seems to be something I need to work on), but I think you can (and in reality will have to) combine the two to lose weight. It's just so wonderful to get rid of the guilt with IE!
Friday, September 01, 2006, 9:22 PM
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