The mistake I made was focusing on how to lose weight, instead of why I was overweight to begin with.
Weight will come off and on, but until you learn the psychology behind your eating habits, it remains a constant struggle. Although diet and exercise was important, therapy, and learning to develop a sense of self worth, is what has been the biggest determining factor of my weight loss (and what has kept it off).
I don’t stress out about traveling or going out to dinner with friends or not being able to make it to the gym every week, because therapy helped me develop a healthy relationship with food, which has prevented me from overeating.
To any one suffering from binge eating disorder:
I know what it feels like to be addicted to food. To have anxiety knowing food is around. That having cake in the fridge is burning a hole in your brain. That frenzied feeling you experience when you’re bingeing, the desperation to get as much food in your body as possible. And the overwhelming, crushing regret and deep sadness that follows the binge. And the trapped feeling of repeatedly falling in to this cycle of weight loss/gain, bingeing, purging, starving, eating. I understand the desperation. I used to eat sugar straight out of a bag. Spoonfuls of sugar. Whole jars of peanut butter and frosting in one sitting.
It can end. You can break free from the anxiety.
I haven’t binged, or felt an urge to do so, in 3 years. It’s not that I have all the answers, but I got help, and you can get it, too. And you deserve it.
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