Depression???

A friend once said to me that whenever she tried to eat healthy she felt depressed. She mentioned this to her husband who said, "Well honey, you have been used to centering your life around food."

Friends get together around food. We kick back and have movie night with our favorite foods.

I think it is any other life change. It was pleasurable and we miss it.

Exercise has been proven to boost mood. If you are not already doing so adding a fun exercise might help. And having a work out partner with a like mindset would help too.

Good luck with your journey!!

Yoga really helps. It might not be a good idea to move from one "addiction" of food to exercise. Trust me, I've recovered from an ED and it's a slippery slope.
Yoga is a great exercise, whether you do the intense Jillian Michael's videos or at your local gym. It calms your mind, helps you connect with yourself, and really helps with any other physical activity you're doing.
A lot of people who don't want medications are actually told to try yoga by a psychiatrist who have depression, anxiety, and other disorders.

Like the others are saying, exercise exercise exercise! I've dealt with depression for most of my life. 2 years ago I even began taking Prozac because counseling just wasn't enough, and temazepam for insomnia. It did help me stabilize, however I gained 30lbs. after starting. Now I've lost 20 of those 30lbs. and I am OFF of the medications. Exercise is better than any counseling appointment and any antidepressant, and my insomnia is better (still there, but more manageable with as needed sleep aids).

However, I always strongly recommend counseling for depression if it's becoming a chronic problem. Even though I don't feel depressed anymore, I still go to my appointments regularly.

It's actually as simple as finding an activity. When depressed (which is nearly daily) I write, just little stories and stuff. That way I do something that has a result, just like eating makes you feel full.

I understand your issue. Mine's boredom, aside from clean the house I don't have much to do so I'd eat. Now I log onto forums and talk there instead of eating.

A problem that so many people get is that once they are brave enough to set some goals, to get healthy & fit, to lose a lot of weight or to start up a new regime is to help him/her achieve their weight loss goal, a feeling of anxiety can set in right after.
Anxiety from the pressure to get going, it all seems so very important, and very overwhelming, doubts start to creep in – “Can I really do this?” ”I don’t think I can?” ”Who was I kidding?”

The pressure to get going, to get through one week of whatever plan you may be on, it is too much, it takes the fun out of the initial high that was got when the goal was first set, and the dream of getting to a healthy weight seemed so easy. You then start to feeling depressed and you just want food as your way of comfort. You get feelings from the past coming back to haunt you, maybe someone has called you a failure at whatever you have set out to do and you begin to think to yourself, ‘Maybe they were right?!’

Wrong!

You are not a failure you need to get out of this frame of mind and leave the past in the past. This is your future and only YOU can move forward from this and not anyone else. There will be lots of ‘ifs and but’s’ but do you want to ruin your future by bringing your past in to haunt you with the rest of your life? When you hold this kind of resentment you are bound by an emotional link that is stronger than steel and forgiveness my dear is the only way to dissolve that link and be completely FREE.

Don’t start today with the broken pieces of yesterday.

It is IMPORTANT for you to remember that this anxiety – that pressure – that doubt – is NOT NECESSARY. We can let it go and leave it where it should be in the past, kick back and start living.

How you may ask?? Well it’s pretty simple actually!

All you need to do is affirm over and over again as much as you need to do, an affirmation that will lift this anxiety and make you feel at ease and relaxed.
Here is an example of what you can say…
But remember you can change this to suit yourself.
“I am now creating the life, health and body of my dreams, in an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in it’s own perfect time. What doesn’t kill me will make me stronger”

Repeat this every day, every morning, every night, when you are at the gym, anytime you feel anxiety set in, write it out and read it over and over again. Write your own affirmation, something that means something to you.
Key points to add to your affirmation.


• Use the words to frame that you are in the process of creating a healthy body
• Use words that mean you are enjoying the process and you feel calm and relaxed about it
• Use the word healthy in your affirmation
• Be happy with the time it take – as long as you are moving closer
• Remember the words of Einstein: I am thankful to all those you said ‘No’ to me because of them of them I did it myself.

I am also one of those people who also suffers from anxiety and depression but I have learnt to live with it in a much calmer environment, sometimes I feel overwhelmed, but using this technique I can get myself back to a place of calm and feeling centred and focused on my goal. I have been abused in my childhood, cheated etc and every scar tells a story but I have learnt that every time I have went through a struggle it has developed my strengths and when you go through hardships you will also learn not to surrender and believe me that takes a hell of allot of strength! You are well on your way then. I am not saying its easy it has taken me years to come as strong as I am now emotionally and physically and you can do it too. Small easy steps is all that it can take.

Keep a weightloss blog as well, just writing down your thoughts on a daily basis for a stranger to read can actually be very helpful, remember they won’t know or judge you, they are behind a computer screen.

Being on a weight loss journey you are going to experience many highs and lows and you are going to be battling many a demon as you go along, it is important to take action when you go through a low time, learning how to change your thinking and focus will help you to get back on track sooner and having less feelings of sabotage. Remember every morning that you wake up is another chance to get it right, there are two words that you should never say though which is ‘I can’t’ because YOU CAN and YOU WILL!! Every day is an opportunity to create a brand new you! Good luck hun

There's also a website called recoveryourlife.com and it's a forum type website where you can get advice and such. If you're into that.