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Old Nov 20, 2013, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by hankster View Post
Thank you for your kind words. The hardest thing for me was to realize that I was ALLOWED to eat. My mother gave the worst dieting advice ever. She used to eat burned toast because she claimed it had fewer calories. Even as a little kid I thought that was nonsense. So - where does your bad diet advice come from? There is a book by Jenny Shaefer - Living Without Ed - where I realized that her eating disorder sounded just like my parents did when I was growing up. It's amazing to me that I didnt even detect how negative they wrre before that. But it's like they say - a fish doesn't notice water. I'm a sweet person too, but I dont know how to take nice care of myself, because no one ever did.
I eat for comfort when I feel sad or lonely, which is quite often. Of course this does nothing for my weight loss and I just end up putting on more weight and feeling more hopeless.
Probably it has something to do with my childhood too, but I'm not sure what.
I'll check out the book, thank you for your thoughts.
Please try to take good care of yourself hankster, I'm sure you are a sweet person and you deserve to be taken good care of.
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growlycat
Thanks for this!
Aloneandafraid, unaluna