Re: talking it out

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Thank you I do have plenty of activities to do.. Thank goodnes for this program or my damage would have been much greater. With my granddaughter around on most weekends I try to foods that she will enjoy but not so good for me...I put the ones I could in the freezer knowing that I cant just grab them on impulse and eat them. I did go right to bed when I notice my tendency...To:

IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Sun, August 29, 2010 9:52:08 PMSubject: Re: talking it out

Hi, Dianna,

My husband travels occasionally and I find I always do better (binge-wise) if I have some activities planned for the time he's gone. I try to make it a point to go out every day he's gone, if only to run a short errand, and I will make appointments to meet friends for coffee or lunch or something. Otherwise I find myself holing up and eating out of loneliness and boredom, especailly at night. I also sometimes plan to have around for my meals special foods that he doesn't especially like but I do, which gives me some food-thing to look forward to without bingeing. Usually, too, I plan some kind of inside project while he's gone, something to keep my mind off the refrigerator.

Hang in there; it doesn't always have to be that you eat more than your body wants when he's gone. Maybe this time you can take a few baby steps away from that habit.

Laurie

talking it out

Hi everyone,

I guess I just need to "vent". I've been having health issues for the past few months and just got a diagnosis today of Sheehan's Syndrome. This means that I will have to take steroids the rest of my life because my pituitary was damaged during childbirth when my blood pressure bottomed out and now it doesn't regulate my adrenal glands like it should so I don't produce enough cortisol. It can lead to life-threatening conditions, so the hydrocortisol is a life-saver for me. I've been taking it for a week and cannot even begin to describe what a change it's made in the way I feel.

Anyway...all that to get to what I need to vent about. LOL I was talking on the phone to my mom about it tonight and she mentioned that I'll gain weight on steroids. I told her I know that, but being able to function now is worth way more than being slim. She mentioned how hard I worked on WW to lose 60 pounds and told me that I had looked good. I have gained 20 pounds while not feeling well simply because I had hardly enough energy to get out of bed to go to work, let alone exercise. And I'd totally gotten disgusted with dieting and just don't believe that it works in the long run anyway. I've been working on IE and think I've done rather well, but apparently I've disappointed her since I am no longer as as thin as I was.

I guess it just irritated me that she seems to think that being thin is more important than me being healthy. If I don't take the hydrocortisol it could lead to an adrenal crisis which really would not be a good thing. It just reinforces to me what a priority our culture puts on thinness.

Rhonda