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stillsearchingforme
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 03:34 pm |
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Hi. I am glad to have stumbled upon this page. I have been struggling with my weight my whole entire life and now even worse then ever. Im over 40 and the will power and desire to do this is wearing thin. I want it soo soo bad....but I cant control my eating. starting to think i need some sort of help.
Im only a little over 5 feet tall and weigh in at 240. almost 30 pounds heavier than a year ago and about 55 pounds heavier than two years ago. I am out of work right now due to an injury and find myself at the refridge atleast 15 times a day because I cant think of nothing better to do. I dont bother to leave the house much because my clothes dont really fit and being out of work...cant afford to get any others.
Any help is welcome. thank you
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Nir
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:03 pm |
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I wonder if that's a coincidence, I reached rock bottom with my eating about 10 weeks after I lost my job of 12 years. I found it helpful to get support from a group.
http://www.oa.org/podcast/2008/04/overeaters-anonymous-podcast-1-introduction/
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martinsphinx
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:20 am |
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You cannot control your eating habits? Then no one can help you. If you want to lose your weight, you must first help yourself by having a self-control and commitment. Without the two, all of the strategies will turn put to be useless.
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tom502
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Posted: 17 May 2011 12:20 pm |
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| Such advice sounds good, and is not "incorrect", and I can only speak for myself, but for me, I find my compulsive uncontrollable eating, like that actions of a crackhead. Yes, I "want" to quit my bad ways, and control my eating, and weight/health, but I have this all compelling urge to slam bad foods in my mouth, like a crakhead wants to suck that crack smoke in, and not stop till it's all gone. It's not fun for me, and I'm miserable for it, yet for me to keep doing it, makes me think it's not so easily understood to be all "in my control".
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Nir
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Posted: 18 May 2011 08:11 am |
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| It took a period of 5 weeks of back-to-back binge-eating, day after day, to have me look for novel solutions (back in October 2006). During this time I signed up with a counsellor and also started attending Overeaters Anonymous. The counsellor was one of those that did not want to put any labels on me, on the other hand it was great to find a local meeting where I came face to face with other people who identified food as their primary addiction and start the journey towards abstinence from compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviours. Today I am a normal weight and have a healthy plan of eating.
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