Tue, Jun-26-12, 10:24
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NEVER GIVING UP!
Posts: 5,030
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Plan: no sugar/grains LCHF IF
Stats: 478/354/200
BF:excessive!!
Progress: 45%
Location: UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Whofan
I'm afraid I don't know what you mean. I'd be interested to try to understand. Bingeing used to make me weep with despair: despair at my helplessness over food; despair at hating what it was doing to my body and being unable to stop; despair at knowing I was hurting myself yet continuing to do it anyway. The freedom from binge mentality is one of the best things that's ever happened to me. Maybe THE best thing.
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For me its like being an alcoholic, but with food. I hated my inability to control bingeing on certain foods, while at the same time loving those foods like they were my best friends. I wanted to be able to have them, I didn't want to give them up, I wanted more control over them.....but the high while having a binge is pretty hard to give up, and like any drug effect is wanted for itself.
Binge eating disorder can be a very complex thing, and it is entirely possible to hate and need something at the same time. Having to give up the thing you feel you need, and can't do without, does mean a process like grieving. an alcoholic or drug addict will also go through a grieving like process for their drug.
Lee
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