Posted by Racer on September 24, 2005, at 2:12:16
In reply to Emotional Eating BIG TIME! :(, posted by ButterflyHigh on September 24, 2005, at 1:34:32
Dunno what gives, but you might check out a book called "Intuitive Eating" and see if it helps you out of this. Both my nutritionist and my therapist recommended this to me, and I can see how helpful it would be for any sort of eating or dieting issues. One of the first sections is about identifying what sort of eater you are, which helps you figure out how to work on normalizing your eating.
The whole point of the book is that dieting doesn't work, but eating according to what your body is telling you will help you achieve your "natural" weight. It may not be the weight you want to be, but it will be the healthiest weight for your body. (Keeping in mind that some of us think we should weigh much less than a healthy amount, that's an important point to keep in mind.)
Congrats on being clean, though. I agree about the good/bad to feeling feelings. I certainly prefer to be thin and brittle to being whatever size I am now and actually being aware of feelings. (Still can't identify them, of course, but that's why I visit my therapist every week...)
I hope that helps a bit. Good luck to you.
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