Re: Re: Bulimia as a limiting belief

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Jenna,

 

I think that asking for help with your ED is a good idea...not a limiting

belief.  Of course you are not your eating disorder but the fact is that you

have used it to help you cope for so many years that getting help from someone

who understands eating disorders can only be considered a positive.  I think

that a good therapist will use many of the ideas that expounds on and

remember she too is a therapist who works with a lot of people with Eating

Disorders (ED - not erectile dysfunction . 

 

Just my opinion

 

 

Good Luck,

 

  Livingston

To: insideoutweightloss

Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 10:05 AM

Subject: Re: Bulimia as a limiting belief

 

Hi Jenna,

I was just listening to two of the episodes on limiting beliefs this morning! I

never thought about the belief that you have an eating disorder could be a

limiting belief before you mentioned it in your post.

It took me a long time to come to terms with the idea that I had an ED and I

felt that it was helpful for me to accept this idea because it made me take my

eating behaviors seriously and, I thought, work on healing from them. But

perhaps you are right, and believing " I have an ED " is keeping me stuck in the

pattern to some extent. Hmm. Perhaps I need to change my beliefs about my

disordered eating and start believing I can have a healthy and peaceful

relationship with food.

Thanks for posting this " food for thought " !

Cheers

Amy in Belgium

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> Hello list,

>

> I have been revisiting 's talks on limiting beliefs and had a

> revalation that I would very much appreciate feedback on. I binge, horribly,

> painfully and manically. Not all the time and more during stressful periods.

> In the past I have popped appetite suppresors that made me feel weird,

> fasted and exercised, now I have no desire to take them even though a little

> bit of me would like help in fasting as I've put on a few pounds of the 30

> or so I've released this year. I fit all the diagnostic criteria for

> atypical bulimia nervosa and have been building myself up to ask for help

> with this.

>

> However, while investigating EDs and realising that this is a label that

> could apply to myself I started binging again and suspect that labelling

> myself gives me permision and a reason to binge.

>

> Now, even if I have an ED, its not for ever, and it doesn't even effect me

> all the time so I feel it is not healthy to say I have an ED. It is better

> for me to say that I have tendencies that way and that I am learning better

> ways of dealing with stress.

>

> And .. like many people here I've had severe stress - a baby that died some

> years ago that I've still got issues around, a husband struggling with

> alcohol addiction before his real problem of being bi-polar was addressed, a

> boy with difficulties who has been in hospital for months due to extreme

> anxiety, now diagnosed as being on the Autistic Spectrum, a teenage daughter

> with whom I have had some problems now mostly past - I could go on.

>

> The stressors have lessened a lot as my son has been improving, my husband

> has got help - so why binge again?

>

> My point though is that saying I have an ED holds me back, it is more

> helpful to make positive affirmations about my recovery. Can anyone point me

> to specific episodes that might be particularly helpful to me?

>

>

> Thanks for reading

>

> Jenna

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