Re: I'm new, too

November 4, 2010

Jami you are so lucky to have a friend like THAT.

mj

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> Subject: Re: I'm new, too

> Date: Monday, November 1, 2010, 1:21 PM

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> Jami,

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> That still happens to me. I have a period where I can't seem to stop eating.

When it happens I have to start to backtrack & ask myself, " what happened today

that made me want to eat all the time? What might I be avoiding by eating (many

times it's just because my house is a mess & I don't really want to clean it up

so might as well EAT). Another thing that I sometimes do is ask myself if there

is a particular FEELING that I am trying to STUFF down with food. Since my mom

died at the end of May I've been having waves of sadness come over me & I'm

trying to allow myself to feel that & not to mask it by stuffing my body with

food that it doesn't need. Stuffing emotions never works anyway, they always

come back & then I have the added guilt of having binged on top of the original

emotion. I have to tell you, though, with time & perserverance, these binge

periods are almost minimal now. Actually they are now pretty rare. I'm getting

much better at recognizing

> the problem right away & taking care of THAT without stuffing my face. This

is an awesome way to live once it gets established but it does take time to

break all those bad habits that I've developed over YEARS of over & under

eating. Even just listening to my own body signals took months to become natural

but it is getting to feel like I'm " getting it " finally.

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> The most important thing for me is to recognize when I am getting back into

that OLD 'diet mentality' & to nip that in the bud right away. Been there, done

that, never want to do that again!!!! But still, my mind sometimes entertains it

so I have to remind it that " I " am in charge & not " it " . lol.

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> keep going, you are doing well

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> mj

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