[24Moondust24]

Hello everyone

Last week I had made yet another attempt to eat healthy. Instead I starved myself, eating a small meal each day. Today I ate two meals and I feel out of control and ate more than I intended. I also gained back the pounds I lost in a week and a half.

I need some advice on coping with this.

[PianogirlPlays]

I think slow and steady wins the race. Quickly lost can mean quickly back on especially if it is just water weight. Small changes made slowly but continuously are easier to keep forever as you turn you gradually and truly change your ways with food. A good steady program and support can really help.

[24Moondust24]

Thank you for the advice. It really means a lot to me...

It looks like your prediction was right. I went back to eating all the time. I am eating healthier meals though. If that counts for something.

[Marla500]

I think that counts! Today I feel a million times better than I did yesterday because I am eating pumpkin seeds instead of candy!! I think the better I feel the less I will binge. Healthy food helps!!

[waggiedog]

HAPPY, HEALTHY and a little WEALTHY 2016!!!

Hi huns. Well, I'm very sorry to be the carrier of bad unwanted tidings BUT, yep, as everybody has said ~~ the only way to successfully keep weight off (note I didn't say loose it as we all can do that fast) is by really trying to find any safe tactics that work for you. Yes, the loss may take longer but, if done slowly the body eventually won't be storing every single morsel you send into it. It thinks it's on starvation mode, especially if that's all you've ever done. HOLD MY OWN HAND UP TO ALL OF ABOVE! I do totally ''get it'', like how good you feel when you've gone all day without eating BUT, here's where starving kicks in. Could be via that when you get home youre SOOOOO hungry, you stuff everything and anything into your mouths without even chewing. Then you stand a gaze at the mess and get so darn angry. I'm not a Dr or medical person but what helps me is before eating, I pour a glass of either orange/mandarin juice with bits or Tomato juice (all fresh pressed). It makes me just hold back for 5 minutes. I then find I won't scoff whatever's in the fridge or larder!!! Plus these things really are good for you. I don't juice as I detest the green goo from the veg juice. I eat the veg instead. OK, I sure do 'lapse', I mean, I have 30 years of serious ED's behind me, and I'm not getting any younger. Sometimes I just wanna binge for binge's sake, so I then take the dog for a walk, sometimes works!! OK, Take care, and live healthy n happy. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[waggiedog]

P.S. Sorry, forgot to say. Years and years ago I found a book which was a revelation to me, someone actually addressing the big issue of full on ED's. I couldn't believe I'd found someone who puts into writing exactly what I'd been straining to live with for years. I still have that first book today and have read and re~read it. Of course there are many more people out there today who are ''on the band waggon'' so to speak BUT, this lady didn't try and sell her ''products'' by way of replacement meals etc. She now has many many more books out and I have most of those too. It's actually written and explains the ''emotions'' behind ED's, infact it could apply to any substance abuse, like alcohol or drugs. For, food can be and is, a drug for some folk.
The name's ''GENEEN ROTH'' and her books have been in the New York Times bestseller. I can only obtain her books here by ordering these books at my local bookshop. However, in the states I'm sure they are available in most bookshops. The first one I ever read, my total and absolute revelation!!! Was called: ''FEEDING THE HUNGRY HEART''. Maybe you could check it out in your library. I live in England but when I was in Niagra falls 2 years back, I found the latest book in a little local library, that was called ''WOMEN, FOOD AND GOD'' an unexpected path to almost everything. By the way, it's defo NOT all about God and the books don't preach!! xxxxxxxxx

[24Moondust24]

Thank you you both for your advice...

Marla500: I am so happy that you are having success. I am grateful that you shared your experience with me.

Waggiedog: I do agree with you that it is an addiction. I was addicted to cutting then stopped and replaced it with alcohol. I no longer drink, so food has become my new addiction. I am scared if I stop eating my pain away. I will fall prey to another addiction.

everything in moderation

[Imah]

What I am trying now is eating every two hours very small amounts. I am following a combination of the mediterranean diet with the blue zone areas diet. These are not weight loss, but lifestyle changes for better health. I take my two hour time period even farther. Example: 8 walnuts is 1 serving. I let myself have 1 every 15 minutes. Sometimes I stare at the next nut for 12. But waiting 15 minutes is easier then anything else. I also am trying to push water. Every time I want to just grab the nut, I go for the water instead. So far I am doing good. Right now, I am doing my 15's with a sandwich I cut in small pieces.

If you look at servings per day of a healthy diet, you will see there are many servings, and ways to break them up. Take an hour or two to eat an apple. Small pieces, 1 every 5 minutes if cut into 20 pieces. I also am trying to chew each piece 60 times.

I fixate on food so much, for me - this slowing down and healthy choices is working (so far).

[Imah]

well that lasted 2 days. :P But I am on the third day and semi-hopeful that eventually choosing healthier eating, and stretching out my fixating times will help my over-eating / constant eating to mean I am eating less per day.