Triumphant
Journey:
A Cyberguide To Stop Overeating and
Recover from Eating Disorders
The Dilemma in Recovery
The dilemma in your recovery process is that eventually,
healing and triumph require that you face secrets in yourself.
Despite the benefits in freedom, overeating is difficult
to stop. You are using food to stop or prevent yourself from feeling
uncomfortable or painful emotions. Your eating patterns are a solution to
difficult emotional experience.
- You may be eating for protection from loneliness and
self doubt.
- You may be hiding from your own anger.
- You may feel eating protects you from danger.
Often you don't even know this. What you do know is that
you feel uncomfortable, nervous, irritable and frightened when you try to stop
overeating.
These feelings signal that you have secrets from
yourself.
Whether you are underweight, normally weighted or
overweight, your eating solution can become a problem. You are tired of the
roller coaster ride where you get control of your eating only to return to old
patterns. You are weary of feeling like a failure when once again you find
yourself alone in front of the television eating junk food. You feel even worse
when you are trying to binge on broccoli or sprouts in a futile attempt to
reach emotional oblivion without harming yourself. You know this is all wrong,
but all your efforts to change seem futile.
Your dilemma is that you can change your eating patterns
permanently only if you face and resolve your secrets.
If you follow any reasonable diet regime you will lose or
gain weight, depending on your goal.
However, since diets address behavior alone they strip
you of your protection from your own secrets. No alternative protection is
given. As you eat more appropriately your anxiety can grow until it is
unbearable.
With feelings of false power and superiority, or shame,
guilt and relief, you return to the food solution.
Addressing the unknown in yourself is the heart of any
useful method to stop overeating.
If your overeating is a short term and mild problem, you
can address it with this guide and patient friends. If it is a long term or
life interfering situation, you will need to include additional
forms of help.
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