I am serial dieter and have also tried Intuitive Eating. I really like some of the concepts. I am now able to eat without overstuffing myself, I can look at food now and say “that’s too much”. I may have been too lenient with eating whatever I want as long as I ate only when I was hungry. But this lenience has led me to gain more weight. I am now seeing a weight loss doctor and am focusing on decreasing carbs and sugar. I want to get to a point where I am at a healthy weight and not having to take as many medications for my elevated blood pressure and GERD. I think once that happens, I will be able to live by the tenets of Intuitive Eating. Dieting is my drug, it’s so hard to break a habit you’ve lived with most of your life, even if it isn’t good for you.

Thank you for sharing the McMansion article! That really hit home. We used to live in an area of the south where real estate is stupid cheap, so we bought a huge house in a rural/suburban wasteland. It was a dumb thing to do for 2 people without kids, and we were too miserable to even articulate how unhappy it made us. Last year we sold most of our crap and moved to a city where we rent an apartment with 1/3 of the space we used to have, and are about 1000 times happier. I realize that level of choice and mobility are a huge privilege, but man, did it make a difference in quality of life.