Challenge: Feeling our feelings?
bjw1965
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I have had binge eating disorder since my teens and now I am in my mid forties - I kept to a healthy weight despite the binges until my mid thirties and since then the weight has steadily piled on and the binge eating gotten worse - far worse! Now I weigh 234lbs and if I go into a binge cycle it can last for days, not just the occasional evening! Evenings are the challenge for me - I found a combination of eating and watching tv numbs me nicely and of course can feel so pleasurable at the time - though it takes more now to get the same "hit". I have been told by a therapist that I need to go and lie down instead of switching on the tv and filling a tray with food - just lie in my room and feel my feelings. I so do NOT want to feel my feelings!! - so I can see the root of it all but kicking this addiction is soooooo hard.
However, would anybody like to join me in that challenge? When you are on the brink of a binge instead of grabbing the food, going and lying quietly on your bed (or away from where you normally binge) and letting your emotions come to the surface? Scares the bejesus out of me - but if anybody else out there wants to give it a try too and we can report back to each other - I am up for it!
Otherwise I am trying to follow a 1300 cal per day eating plan which is 500 cals below my basal metabolic rate.
Wishing us all success! Brigitte
However, would anybody like to join me in that challenge? When you are on the brink of a binge instead of grabbing the food, going and lying quietly on your bed (or away from where you normally binge) and letting your emotions come to the surface? Scares the bejesus out of me - but if anybody else out there wants to give it a try too and we can report back to each other - I am up for it!
Otherwise I am trying to follow a 1300 cal per day eating plan which is 500 cals below my basal metabolic rate.
Wishing us all success! Brigitte
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