Hey everyone, just thought I'd do a post regarding over eating and binging and about what has helped me to change my old habits into healthier habits.
I also want to say I've never been diagnosed with BED, I did have binges and I did over eat, I'd say maybe more so a food addiction..but regardless, I had issues related to food.
Firstly, finding the roots of my issues, when it all started has helped me alot to figure out what my triggers were, what my trigger foods were as well.
Realising that it was very much related to my emotions, when I was young I don't think I was in a position to be emotional and express myself which made me turn to food as a way to cope and realising it and being honest with myself has helped me so much.
Also having deep emotional conversations with the people around me that I trust about it has helped so much, to see people that cares for me understanding where I was coming from was very helpful.
I think it can be a very good start to get rid of the guilt and shame that comes with being fat, that no I wasn't just lazy, that I had traumas, that I was depressed probably for years and that It was sadly just a bad coping but also, that I could have turned to something else that'd have been way more harmful to myself. And that's without saying that being obese is harmful but It could have been alcohol, drugs.
Then, looking at my food habits compared to how a normal healthy eating person would be eating in a day was a big eye opener. To realise that I've been treating myself everyday with no restrictions for years, without second thinking about it, just eating everything I wanted..It was very hard, I cried alot about this, thinking of how much food I'd eat in a day sometimes, coming to term with the fact that it wasn't normal.
Coming to term with the fact that you're not supposed to have dessert, sweets and salty snacks on the daily but not only that, having big portions of it, multiple times in a day.
For me it was really just a switch and it wasn't easy but slowly seeing food as nutrition for my body, trying to feed my body what it needed and not what I craved. It doesn't happen overnight but now, what I crave are actually good things for my body 85% of the time bc I genuinly love the food but also because ik it's good for my body. Now, I can honestly say I felt like crap all the time bc of food and just to not feel like this anymore, it's worth it.
Watching Obese to beast videos on youtube regarding obesity and food as a whole has helped me realise so much bc I could see myself in the people he was talking about and in the issues he was talking about.
I know that some people need actual therapy and can't just change on their own like that but Ik many just don't know where to start and regardless of therapy I think it needs to start with will power to change and to make better decisions so yeah, I hope my post is gonna be helpful to someone out there..
Regarding weightloss, simply CICO, balance and healthier options. I've come to realise that the weight will eventually come off if you do the right things.
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