Losing weight the right way?

I can't answer from an eating disorder point of view, but making healthy well balanced meal choices is always the best way to go. It might take time to get the portions and combination in control, but if you log your food /drink intakes EVERYDAY you will see where your strengths and weaknesses are. This is an AWESOME site to use. Good Luck!

Hi. Yes I was bulimic in college through the time I had my first child. I'm 41 now and that was back when I was 17-24 years old of "active' bulimia. Now I only have the challenging mindset/self criticism/perfectionism to deal with every day. It takes a long long time to work that mentality out of your system if ever....it sort of always is lurking I imagine for a lifetime. For us, keeping too much attention on all these numbers and exercise can be dangerous. I ran into that the past two weeks on this website. I've had to lighten up because my whole self worth gets wrapped up in these numbers and goals and making spreadsheets to track all my stuff and weighing myself 6 times a day (my boyfriend finally took the scale out of my house!)....so you can definitely get healthier but just know that you are vulnerable to becoming obsessed with the details of it all...because our body and eating often defines us as people....self esteem and self worth wrapped up in each calorie.

Bulimia rarely results in much weight loss. Either way, eating disorders and even eating too few calories on any diet plan cause the body to literally eat itself in an effort to survive. You lose brain mass and organ tissue right along with fluids before any fat you might lose when the body is in starvation mode. Focus on getting body fat down, not body weight down.

It's hard....but you have to learn to love and respect and honor yourself and realize that eating disorders are self-abusive. Sometimes abusing ourselves feels 'normal' but it's not ok. It's taken me 25 years to learn this and I'm still working on it. I did slip a few weeks ago and try to purge...after that many years....where did that come from? I quickly decided I wanted nothing to do with that. So just stay in tune with your feelings, seek therapy if you haven't yet. Learn to love yourself and treat yourself kindly. My ID is Brandycandy so feel free to message me if you want to speak further. I know how you are feeling....the daily struggle, the daily disappointment in yourself, the anger, the fear, the overwhelmed feeling, etc. You can do it....it just will take time to reprogram your entire thinking and tendencies. Love yourself!