I’ve been reading many of the posts here and I think lots of us are on the same wavelength. Compulsive overeating leaves me feeling so confused: I’m so happy at first to be stuffing my face with my favorite foods then I’m at stomach-hurting over-fullness and the food doesn’t even taste good any more and I feel waaaay out-of-control.
Of course I gain weight but every time I try to lose it I’m miserable because I love, love, love food.
So I’ve got a 10 week plan I decided to commit to as of last Sunday:
70 days of:
- Exercising (not over-exercising) – walking, elliptical, very short runs
- Water drinking
- Eating like a non-binger (try not to over eat or under eat, reasonable portions and more healthy food than non-healthy food.) Sounds so easy but it’s been so hard to do that.
- Journal (and keep up with Gayle’s challenge)
- No weighing
- NO beating myself up and multiple bingeing if I have an episode – just keep going. Always been the hardest part.
- One non-food treat at the end of each week.
I measured my belly and took a starting weight but I won’t weigh as I go along because I’m 45 and the weight doesn’t come off very fast and the slow moving scale triggers binges. My goal is to stay on my healthy eating and exercise plan for 10 weeks and focus more on clothes fitting than on lbs. lost. I think this might work for a while because I’m always focusing on losing pounds instead of being healthier and this time I’m forcing myself not to focus on pounds.
If/when I get through today, that will be 7 good days – that’s the longest string of good days I’ve had in ages. This week’s non-food treat will be to load cd’s into an old mp3 player so the music will get me motivated.
Looking forward to getting to know you all. You’re very inspirational and it’s a comfort to know others who are struggling with the same issue.
-Nad
