Triumphant
Journey:
A Cyberguide To Stop Overeating and
Recover from Eating Disorders
Curiosity
Are you curious about your inner secrets? Curiosity is
the beginning of freedom. Curiosity can mobilize your strength and courage. It
can propel you on your triumphant journey.
Responsible diet books or physical exercise programs
provide tools and guidance to help you achieve more physical health, strength,
flexibility and stamina. They do not address the powerful issues that challenge
or block your entry to a more healthful psychological and emotional path.
To reach the more healthful path that can lead to triumph
and freedom you need your curiosity.
Curiosity asks, "Why must I live this way?"
Then, as you become more alert and aware, you will seek your answer in a new
and deeper way.
This is the search, find and understand section of your
journey. Your secrets are treasures which, when discovered, understood and
emotionally processed, will help free you from your overeating life style.
How Secrets Relate to Overeating and
Binge Behavior
For our discussion there are two kinds of secrets: the
ones you know about and the ones you don't know about.
Secrets overeaters know about and try to keep hidden from
others cover a wide range of eating behaviors. Some secrets include:
- gorging on bread, pasta, pastry, ice cream, frozen
yogurt, especially alone at night.
- getting caught in the sweet/salt trap eating peanuts and
chips with cookies and candy.
- Sitting in front of the TV, eating and 'checking out'
for hours.
- Eating for comfort while driving the car.
Overeaters often calm social jitters by eating privately
before they eat a meal with other people. This also helps overeaters to hide
their true eating habits. It's easy to say no publicly to second helpings and
chocolate cake when you have eaten sweets before the meal. Plus, you know you
can gorge yourself when you get home.
Overeaters often try to convince others to join them in
"innocent treats," pretending their eating splurge is an occasional
lark and not part of a regular pattern.
Keeping secrets from others often involves lying. Lying
strips you of your self-esteem and fills you with permanent guilt. The guilt
feels permanent because the lies seem so necessary. Without the lies, your
secrets would become known. Public disclosure of your secrets seems to you like
it would be a personal catastrophe.
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