Re: Digest Number 1512

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I joined the study group but have not received any info.  Anyone know who I

contact

for help with this?  Thanks!!

Sherry

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Sent: Monday, April 9, 2012 4:37 AM

Subject: Digest Number 1512

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Re: Feeling down and out From: weightrelease65

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The last minute is here! From: s

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Re: Feeling down and out

Posted by: " weightrelease65 " weightrelease65@...   weightrelease65

Sun Apr 8, 2012 12:01 pm (PDT)

Thanks for sharing your story and for joining the Yahoo group. I really

feel for you......being in a slump and feeling aweful about yourself is

not a pleasant place to be for sure. I too have been there a few times

in my life. It is like being an addict and it seems like we need to

reach a bottom (self loathing, depression, feeling in a victim mode,

feeling powerless... .etc) until we feel so disgusted with ourselves that

the pain of changing seems less than the pain of continuing on our self

destructive path. What has worked for me is I wake up one morning

feeling so disgusted with myself and say " that's it " and start changing

little things...... ....one thing that helps me become more mindful of

what I put into my mouth is to start writing down everything I eat and

start looking at that.....I have even added the calories as a wake-up

call.....when I am in such a bad slump, i need something tangible to

do...like writing the food down....it is amazing how that awareness can

do to get us started..... ......... or a small goal to start walking a bit

every day....etc. Every little bit gives you power back ......the

trick is to start ..........Hope this is helpful ....let us know.

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but have to stay for 2Â years what things can you do to replace what

food is giving to you? I think you're brave for taking on such an

adventure. I know I wouldn't have the guts to do it!

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> Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 9:55 PM

> Subject: [insideoutweightlos s] Feeling down and out

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> I bought the book in January and trying to do each week justice and

now only on week 3. I started having issues with food when I got to

college and gained 20 pounds the first three months. Ever since then I

tried to restrict food but ended up binging. It's just so hard and hard

to explain to others and even myself. I am trying right now not to beat

myself up and so much and didn't realize how much I did. I was doing

pretty well and letting myself eat what I wanted and try to get back to

a healthy relationship with food but then I caught a glimpse of myself

in the mirror last night and it went down hill from there. I am in a

tough spot right now. Due to budget cuts I lost my teaching job last

year so I decided to make an adventure out of it and I took a job

teaching in Kuwait. I really hate it here but have to fulfill my two

year contract in order to go somewhere else. Food gives me the

distraction and comfort to survive this place it seems. As

> summer nears I am am getting anxious about going back home to see

friends being heavier than I have ever been. But I also know I can't

continue on like this and need to learn to love myself. There is such a

battle that goes on in my head and I don't know how to make it stop or

quite the noise. I feel my clothes getting tighter and it's a daily

reminder of how unhappy I am or a constant reminder of how out of

control I feel and when I feel my new rolls it leads into more self

beating up. I too also do self-sabatoge and have a hard time finding

what it is I am so scared of. I think too I get overwhelmed and just

start to shut down and feel numb and then it's hard to do the work. or

I start over thinking it and go off on another tangent. I am trying to

follow the book and do it and hoping i am doing it correctly and it

works, but not sure I am? I also joined this group a while ago and did

not post and was a bit scared too, maybe afraid to actually

> hold myself accountable and fail at something in front of others. I

am just tired too, tired of thinking of it, tired of dealing with it and

just makes me feel down and I don't want to feel that way anymore. I

want to like myself, no, LOVE myself a be happy with me.

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