Re: New Member Here!

[Guest guest]

Hi there! I'm 22 and live in Ohio also. Which college do you go to?

I just graduated from OSU in June. Anyway I completely understand

where you are coming from. Losing the diet mentality is tough, but

it's such a terrible way to live. I agonized over food, weight, and

exercise all through out college and have finally had enough. I've

been doing IE for about a month, and so far so good. It can be

difficult at times, but I know it's for the absolute best. Good luck

to you!

>

> Hi, everyone

>

> My name is and I'm 20 years old and in college in Ohio.

> When I was in elementary school and middle school, I was not fat,

but

> I was bigger than the other girls my age. Chubby, you might say.

In

> 7th grade, with the best intentions, my mother asked me to go on a

> diet with her. I gave up diet soda and restricted my eating,

losing

> about 15 pounds. Now I was at a healthy weight, but I still felt

> big. My sophomore year of high school, I had a burst of

motivation

> and lost another 20 pounds. It was all smooth sailing from

there...

> I felt good about myself, people commented on my weight loss, and

I

> was happy!

>

> Happy, until the food obsession started. Anytime I went to a

party,

> and so much as saw a plate of brownies or cookies, I would stare

at

> them and obsess over them until I had at least five. Once I

started

> I didn't stop and kept eating until my stomach hurt and then

some. I

> would feel so embarrassed, but I'd do it anyway. Once college

> started I began to obsess with food and weight simultaneously -

> crying and spending the day in bed if the scale read so much as

half

> a pound higher. Sometimes I could hardly go to class because I

was

> so depressed.

>

> I started a pattern of restricting myself to starvation during the

> day, and then eating half or all of my day's calories in the

middle

> of the night. This pattern has continued for almost two years,

and

> still continues today. I get up every night and eat, it's

> uncontrollable. I currently take WellButrin for my depression,

which

> has helped me cope with weight gain when it occurs, but it's still

> occuring. While I am not overweight, I have gained quite a bit of

> weight since high school, and I would like to stop these nightly

> occurrences of overeating.

>

> About a week ago I stumbled upon Intuitive Eating, and the idea

was

> so revolutionary and made so much sense to me that I am going to

try

> it! I am trying to break out of the cycle of feeling guilty and

> beating myself up all day after eating a cookie or a slice of

pizza.

> Currently, I am trying to make peace with food. It's so difficult

> for me to lose the diet mentality because I've placed restrictions

on

> my eating since middle school. With this program, I am hoping to

> conquer my fears of food and weight gain and finally become a

> naturally thin person.

>

> Anyway, that's my long, long story. Hopefully, it ends soon

>

> Thanks for reading and I look forward to getting to know everyone

> here!

>

> -

>

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I'm 23 years old, so we're pretty close in age While reading your

post, I thought of something I had read about a young woman who would

starve herself all day, but then end up binging. She spoke with a

counselor about her troubles, and decided (though she was very

scared) to take the counselor's advice of eating the same amount of

calories that she usually consumed in her binge but instead to space

it out into 3 meals. She feared weight gain, but decided she would

try it for one week. At the end of her experiment, she realized that

she did not gain weight though she had feared that outcome, her

energy stabilized, she felt so much stronger (physically and

emotionally), and she had no desire to binge! I'm only retelling

this person's story because I hope it may help you to break your

starve/binge cycle.

I think that you have to break through your fears and preconceived

notions of whatever dreaded outcome you fear before you can break

your difficult eating habits. I hope this story offers you some

strength and insight. Take care.

> >

> > Hi, everyone

> >

> > My name is and I'm 20 years old and in college in Ohio.

> > When I was in elementary school and middle school, I was not fat,

> but

> > I was bigger than the other girls my age. Chubby, you might

say.

> In

> > 7th grade, with the best intentions, my mother asked me to go on

a

> > diet with her. I gave up diet soda and restricted my eating,

> losing

> > about 15 pounds. Now I was at a healthy weight, but I still felt

> > big. My sophomore year of high school, I had a burst of

> motivation

> > and lost another 20 pounds. It was all smooth sailing from

> there...

> > I felt good about myself, people commented on my weight loss, and

> I

> > was happy!

> >

> > Happy, until the food obsession started. Anytime I went to a

> party,

> > and so much as saw a plate of brownies or cookies, I would stare

> at

> > them and obsess over them until I had at least five. Once I

> started

> > I didn't stop and kept eating until my stomach hurt and then

> some. I

> > would feel so embarrassed, but I'd do it anyway. Once college

> > started I began to obsess with food and weight simultaneously -

> > crying and spending the day in bed if the scale read so much as

> half

> > a pound higher. Sometimes I could hardly go to class because I

> was

> > so depressed.

> >

> > I started a pattern of restricting myself to starvation during

the

> > day, and then eating half or all of my day's calories in the

> middle

> > of the night. This pattern has continued for almost two years,

> and

> > still continues today. I get up every night and eat, it's

> > uncontrollable. I currently take WellButrin for my depression,

> which

> > has helped me cope with weight gain when it occurs, but it's

still

> > occuring. While I am not overweight, I have gained quite a bit

of

> > weight since high school, and I would like to stop these nightly

> > occurrences of overeating.

> >

> > About a week ago I stumbled upon Intuitive Eating, and the idea

> was

> > so revolutionary and made so much sense to me that I am going to

> try

> > it! I am trying to break out of the cycle of feeling guilty and

> > beating myself up all day after eating a cookie or a slice of

> pizza.

> > Currently, I am trying to make peace with food. It's so

difficult

> > for me to lose the diet mentality because I've placed

restrictions

> on

> > my eating since middle school. With this program, I am hoping to

> > conquer my fears of food and weight gain and finally become a

> > naturally thin person.

> >

> > Anyway, that's my long, long story. Hopefully, it ends soon

> >

> > Thanks for reading and I look forward to getting to know everyone

> > here!

> >

> > -

> >

>