Post by charlotte on Feb 27, 2015 4:34:44 GMT -5
Hey Beansies, so happy for you! I reckon every day without a binge is exciting and one to be grateful for, even if you overate a little. I actually had rice milk chocolate with coffee flavor, figues and dark chocolate covered goji berries yesterday (all for dessert though spread out over several hours), but I did an hour of yoga before and didn't feel overly full so I feel completely cool about it. It's freeing to just let that happen every once in a while and I find letting go of eating perfectly helps me eat mindfully/naturally for the rest.
Kate, stop it! Don't feel bad posting about your struggles! I wish it wasn't like that for you... but this is the shit that can come along with BED so we're here to support and motivate each other. I posted this somewhere else and, I dunno, maybe, I hope, it can come in handy for you too.
Have you figured out where it was that your lower brain got the better of you higher brain? What thoughts made you pick up the food? At which point you did you stop experiencing your urges as a detached observer? Were you eating adequately? I think that working those things out can get you back on track with new insights and renewed motivation.
You'll be better prepared next time.
I always find the first couple of days after bingeing the most difficult. I get depressed, hopeless, and desperate and have the hardest time not bingeing. For me, it helps to have clear activities during those days to get my mind off bingeing and focus on other aspects of my life. If someone knows about your problem, inform them and ask them if you can use them as a go-to person as soon as you have an urge. Set clear in your mind: if I have an urge, then I'll talk to this person – as sort of an alternative automatic action. You can use other alternative actions of course, like working out, taking a walk, yoga, … Those are the things that work best for me to get through those first days. Then remind yourself of the successes you've had and continue with all the things you did before (you've done them before so you know you can do it!): detaching from and observing your urges, visualizing your life with and without bingeing to keep you motivated, and responding to urges with still observation, inaction or alternative action to erase the bingeing habit. Get that workbook out again and write a bit in it each morning!
I do a bit of mindfulness each morning in which I do exercises on difficulties I might encounter that day.
You can do it! Don't be too hard on yourself and try detaching from urging, depressing, hopeless, desperate thoughts! Those are not who you are. It's so hard to see past them right now, I know, but they are misleading and they will pass.
It's cliché as fuck but… believe in yourself and find the strength in yourself
And keep in touch!
Edit: Way to go on 9 days binge free, Naddl!
Kate, stop it! Don't feel bad posting about your struggles! I wish it wasn't like that for you... but this is the shit that can come along with BED so we're here to support and motivate each other. I posted this somewhere else and, I dunno, maybe, I hope, it can come in handy for you too.
Have you figured out where it was that your lower brain got the better of you higher brain? What thoughts made you pick up the food? At which point you did you stop experiencing your urges as a detached observer? Were you eating adequately? I think that working those things out can get you back on track with new insights and renewed motivation.
You'll be better prepared next time.
I always find the first couple of days after bingeing the most difficult. I get depressed, hopeless, and desperate and have the hardest time not bingeing. For me, it helps to have clear activities during those days to get my mind off bingeing and focus on other aspects of my life. If someone knows about your problem, inform them and ask them if you can use them as a go-to person as soon as you have an urge. Set clear in your mind: if I have an urge, then I'll talk to this person – as sort of an alternative automatic action. You can use other alternative actions of course, like working out, taking a walk, yoga, … Those are the things that work best for me to get through those first days. Then remind yourself of the successes you've had and continue with all the things you did before (you've done them before so you know you can do it!): detaching from and observing your urges, visualizing your life with and without bingeing to keep you motivated, and responding to urges with still observation, inaction or alternative action to erase the bingeing habit. Get that workbook out again and write a bit in it each morning!
I do a bit of mindfulness each morning in which I do exercises on difficulties I might encounter that day.
You can do it! Don't be too hard on yourself and try detaching from urging, depressing, hopeless, desperate thoughts! Those are not who you are. It's so hard to see past them right now, I know, but they are misleading and they will pass.
It's cliché as fuck but… believe in yourself and find the strength in yourself
And keep in touch!Edit: Way to go on 9 days binge free, Naddl!
