Today I had a strange day food-wise. Just a week or two ago, I would classify this as a "bad eating day", and would probably be nursing a "food hangover" right now, after loosing control and binging. But I actually feel good about my progress with respect to learning how to intuitively eat. 
I ate breakfast this morning around 9, but I felt peckish already around 11. So, to honor my hunger, I decided to eat a bite. I really felt like eating an egg. So I ate the most "sinful" combination: Spanish Serrano ham and egg fried on butter with some white bread. To round up, a peace of milk chocolate with hazelnut. It felt so intensively satisfying to allow my self to eat all these foods. This kind of eating has known to push me into a binge. But I took my time and challenged the negative self-talk and managed to replace it with simple focus on the satisfaction. It was one of the most satisfying meals in the long time. And I actually didn't eat much of this at all: one egg, one thin slice of ham, and two very small slices of bread.

Wife and I then went to the city for an early projection of a movie. She bought a Belgian waffle with whipped cream on a waffle-stand (we have a lot of those in Brussels). I had some of it. It was really tasty and satisfying. For dinner, we went to a Mexican restaurant, had a margarita, some onion rings and friend ice-cream. Again, all very "sinful", but intensely satisfying. And again, I actually ate less of it than I used to before (once I would "allow my self to eat it"). I think I'm making a very good progress on "making peace with food", "discovering the satisfaction factor" and "honoring my hunger".

And I have just made a small step in the direction of "respecting my fullness". My wife was still hungry so she brought some olives with feta cheese. I felt like having some. I took one olive and one little piece of the cheese. I felt it was enough, and I stopped. I didn't feel bad for eating when full. I just stopped because I was full. Sounds simple. But it is a huge difference for me.

So, I think this was great progress. The main progress in fact is that this is how I see it. And I think it's thanks to this mindset that I did not end up feeling bad and binging.

Thanks for letting me share.