Re: checking in

[Guest guest]

Hi Alia,

Sorry to hear about your grandparents. It's tough to lose someone you love.

I'm still relatively new to IE and I've got a long way to go, but for me, one of

the best things about it is how it makes " bad " foods not nearly so tempting. I

have a very strong diet rebel and the second you tell me I can't have something

I will crave it like crazy, even if I didn't want it before it was forbidden.

Keep working the IE steps and the foods that make you want to binge will have

less control over you than they did before.

Also, remember, no one incident is going to do you in. Everyone overeats

occasionally, even thin people. You're already taking positive steps to address

your health and sticking with IE will almost certainly be beneficial to your

health.

As for food issues, I know where you're coming from. I never thought I had food

issues, either, but the more I think about it, the more I realize I probably do.

I have contacted a therapist that specializes in IE and will be taking a

workshop and possibly following up with individual sessions after talking with

her more. There's no shame in getting help, if you think you need it. Either

way, be kind to yourself. Treat yourself the way you would a good friend; you

deserve it.

(((((hugs)))))

Josie

>

> I have been away for a while. My grandfather has been in the hospital. He died

last Saturday. He had a full life, and his body gave out, so I know it was his

time to go. I miss him though, and after the funeral I found myself going to a

buffet and stuffing down all the foods I ate at my grandparents house, both gone

now. I couldn't stop, and I know it wasn't about the food. I recognized it, and

chose to continue, but after I still missed him. I have gained 7 pounds over the

last three weeks.

>

> Now my grandmother on the other side of my family is in the hospital with low

sodium levels, and a glucose level of over 300 because she can't stop eating

foods a diabetic shouldn't have. She assumes her pills will control her levels,

but now she's gotten to a point where she's going to have injections, but still

refuses to clean up her diet. My grandfather who died was also a diabetic

dependent on injections because he didn't want to give up his foods. He injected

for over 20 years; said he'd rather get shots than watch his diet.

>

> All this is hitting me hard. I don't want to eventually get diabetes too, and

be in their situation. I also don't want to fear foods just because they might

lead to diabetes complications.

>

> I don't know what I'm asking. I just wanted to write. Am reading 'women food

and god' and sobbing. I never thought I had food issues. I always just said I

liked food and never got full, but it has to be more than that. Right now I am

just at the overweight level. I don't want my weight to get any higher, but I am

tired of all this obsessing when I eat too much, or misery when I don't eat

enough, and wondering when I'll eat the thing that will trigger a binge.

>

> Alia

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Alia,

Sorry to hear about your grandparents. It's tough to lose someone you love.

I'm still relatively new to IE and I've got a long way to go, but for me, one of

the best things about it is how it makes " bad " foods not nearly so tempting. I

have a very strong diet rebel and the second you tell me I can't have something

I will crave it like crazy, even if I didn't want it before it was forbidden.

Keep working the IE steps and the foods that make you want to binge will have

less control over you than they did before.

Also, remember, no one incident is going to do you in. Everyone overeats

occasionally, even thin people. You're already taking positive steps to address

your health and sticking with IE will almost certainly be beneficial to your

health.

As for food issues, I know where you're coming from. I never thought I had food

issues, either, but the more I think about it, the more I realize I probably do.

I have contacted a therapist that specializes in IE and will be taking a

workshop and possibly following up with individual sessions after talking with

her more. There's no shame in getting help, if you think you need it. Either

way, be kind to yourself. Treat yourself the way you would a good friend; you

deserve it.

(((((hugs)))))

Josie

>

> I have been away for a while. My grandfather has been in the hospital. He died

last Saturday. He had a full life, and his body gave out, so I know it was his

time to go. I miss him though, and after the funeral I found myself going to a

buffet and stuffing down all the foods I ate at my grandparents house, both gone

now. I couldn't stop, and I know it wasn't about the food. I recognized it, and

chose to continue, but after I still missed him. I have gained 7 pounds over the

last three weeks.

>

> Now my grandmother on the other side of my family is in the hospital with low

sodium levels, and a glucose level of over 300 because she can't stop eating

foods a diabetic shouldn't have. She assumes her pills will control her levels,

but now she's gotten to a point where she's going to have injections, but still

refuses to clean up her diet. My grandfather who died was also a diabetic

dependent on injections because he didn't want to give up his foods. He injected

for over 20 years; said he'd rather get shots than watch his diet.

>

> All this is hitting me hard. I don't want to eventually get diabetes too, and

be in their situation. I also don't want to fear foods just because they might

lead to diabetes complications.

>

> I don't know what I'm asking. I just wanted to write. Am reading 'women food

and god' and sobbing. I never thought I had food issues. I always just said I

liked food and never got full, but it has to be more than that. Right now I am

just at the overweight level. I don't want my weight to get any higher, but I am

tired of all this obsessing when I eat too much, or misery when I don't eat

enough, and wondering when I'll eat the thing that will trigger a binge.

>

> Alia

>