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Post by Hopeforrecovery on Jun 8, 2015 16:43:53 GMT -5
Hi everyone , I'm 20 year old female and have had eating disorders since I was about 12(anorexia,bulimia,binge eating). I have read the BOB book and firstly I thought it was amazing - simple, logic and seemed like effective for some people for whom traditional therapy didn't work. But as I have started practising advices such as disconnecting myself to my urges I just couldn't - I would tell myself that it's just an urge, that it's not really me, but still found myself binging ... I just don't get what is wrong. I don't know why but even arter reading Kathryns book I still don't feel like being powerful enough to resist my urges .... I just hope the is someone here who knows what to do in this situation cause I feel totally lost in this . Please help
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Post by rainbowbrit on Jun 9, 2015 0:28:03 GMT -5
Hi hopeforrecovery! We are going to look back over these times in a few years and smile because we'll be over our binge eating disorder. We may have the occasional slip up, bit it will no longer rule our lives. It's going to feel fantastic! I'll let you know what I do when I feel I'm stuck in a binge and can't get out. Let's say I want to binge. If I try and stop myself, I feel like I'm depriving myself which kick starts the diet reaction, which just intensifies the binge. So I let myself eat whatever I want, but NOT RIGHT AWAY. I tell my monkey brain it can have cake, after I've done something. I find a workout (a really short, low intensity one if I'm really not in the mood) our something physical which doesn't require thinking usually works. You binge because your brain wants dopamine. If you get your dopamine from something else you love (music movement etc) then you won't want to binge anymore. If you find you still want to binge, then at least you had a while when you weren't overeating. Let me know how you are getting on!
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Post by Hopeforrecovery on Jun 9, 2015 5:51:22 GMT -5
Thanks rainbowbrit  I'll use your advice, cause I've noticed that when I have busy days I don't think about binging-and that's probably because my awarness is focused on taska I have toperform ... I don't know why I could see that before, but afret your message it occured to me as obvious , so tkanh you I have also researched the forum for similiar topics and found a bit of a diffrent view on brian functioning so I hope it'll be helpful too |
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Post by udciqaigoabos on May 23, 2019 0:36:12 GMT -5
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Post by uzowduca on May 23, 2019 2:28:08 GMT -5
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Post by lazikeviqili on Nov 16, 2019 12:15:40 GMT -5
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I'll use your advice, cause I've noticed that when I have busy days I don't think about binging-and that's probably because my awarness is focused on taska I have toperform ... I don't know why I could see that before, but afret your message it occured to me as obvious , so tkanh you