Sun, May-19-02, 18:48
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,193
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Plan: mostly paleo
Stats: //
BF:also don't care
Progress: 100%
Location: West Coast, USA
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a possible resource
for those of us who overate for emotional reasons and fret about the possibility of returning to those habits/strategies in the future:
Eating disorders author Geneen Roth's Appetites is about her own struggles after becoming slim and maintaining that, but realizing she wasn't yet fixed. I found parts of it illuminating. A couple excerpts:
"I knew how to diet. I knew how to binge. I knew how to beat myself up for gaining weight and congratulate myself for losing weight. I didn't know how to be, eat, define myself without hanging on to the raft of dieting."
"...we get thin, not because it feels good to be light, not because we enjoy eating particular foods, but to prevent ourselves from drowning in the...pain of being fat and dumb and unwanted. Then, since being thin does not change the image or make the pain go away, we gain back the weight so that we can pretend that when we lose it again, we will be happy."
Now there's food for thought.
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