http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/ The Eating Disorders forum is for recovering food addicts, compulsive over-eaters and anyone having issues with food. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:09:15 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/ http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188871-food-addicts-anonymous.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:10:02 GMT It has been quite a while since I have been on this website. I surrendered to my food addiction about 3 1/2 years ago with the wonderful help of Food Addicts Anonymous, which I still attend. For... It has been quite a while since I have been on this website. I surrendered to my food addiction about 3 1/2 years ago with the wonderful help of Food Addicts Anonymous, which I still attend. For those of you who have tried all the diets, all the quick fixes, and have felt the same pain as I did, maybe this is for you. One of the things we have going is a phone meeting marathon on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. All the additional support is helpful during these food saturated holidays. It is such a great feeling to not have the food run my life any more.

Food Addicts Anonymous ]]> Eating Disorders RRecovery http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188871-food-addicts-anonymous.html http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188805-food-food-food.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:55:42 GMT Ok, I came to this web site for other reasons (note my name) but I came upon the eating disorder page by thumbing through the different threads. I have had what I call an eating disorder all my... Ok, I came to this web site for other reasons (note my name) but I came upon the eating disorder page by thumbing through the different threads. I have had what I call an eating disorder all my life. Most people who see me and talk with me don't agree because I am not over weight per se. I have never tipped the scales any heavier than 160 lbs. That was my highest weight this past year. I have been on WW and any other diet that you can imagine most of my adult life. I lose weight, get all happy about how I look, and then get sloppy with my eating and then after several months find myself back in the same boat I was in before. My ideal weight (for me) is 140 lbs. I feel better at this weight, I look better, I can breathe, etc. I am just all around happier at this weight, but..... I am lazy and I love food. Any food. All food.

My children, and no I am not really blaming them, I am at fault for letting them get to me, keep my anxiety level up so high all the time. I am a nervous eater. Well basically I can eat whether I am happy, nervous, upset, sleepy, bored, it doesn't matter but the worst is upset/nervous. I am currently on the WW program, if you want to call it that. I have the books, I know how to do it, I am concious of everything I put in my mouth, but I still eat it.

I don't really know where I am going with this thread. I just wanted to get it off my chest. My "common law" husband just doesn't get it. He tells me just don't eat it. Well when he is "eating it" I feel like I can too. Well anyways, you probably will be seeing me here more often. Just so I can vent or whatever. Thanks for reading even though there was no point to this. lol ]]> Eating Disorders alcoholicson http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188805-food-food-food.html http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188585-bulimic-advice.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:43:07 GMT aight so a bit o history to start with. I am a man, im 23 , been bulimic since i was around 13/14 currently i still purge after EVERY SINGLE Meal i am sick of feeling like **** about myself and... aight so a bit o history to start with.
I am a man, im 23 , been bulimic since i was around 13/14
currently i still purge after EVERY SINGLE Meal
i am sick of feeling like **** about myself and want to stop feeling this way

so for as long as i could rember growing up i was made fun of for being fat. Somewhere along the line i realized that starving myself meant i wasnt gaining weight anymore. Well that never lasted becuase i love to eat. I felt fat every time i looked in a mirror ( still do to this day) so i started purging, weight started comming off which made me look better and people would give me commments about how " wow uve lost alot of weight" . made me feel great so i kept at it. That was until my family started noticing and had a talk with me... man that day was horrible... well turns out durring that whole time , my self image issues had manifested all sorts of fd up issues in me. I became sociall anixous, have had cronic depression since, and to get rid of the self image feelings anxiousness, and feeling depressed i started smoking weed and drinking everyday. All of a sudden i didnt feel horrible anymore. That is until smoking and drinking lead me to ballooning from my normal 160lb weight to 253 lbs... im 5'6 so that was quite alot of weight. So about 2 years ago... i started being bulimic again and combined that with excessive weight lifting, running , and boxing. now im back down to 160lbs, but i think i may have serrrious issues that are runing my life. I dont know how to stop this cycle, and im becoming an alcholoic. I need to stop feeling this depressed anxious bs i want to look in the mirror and accept myself for once in the last decade. Problem is i am damn near broke and have zero health insurance. What should i do , my throat hurts bad some days and i cant sing anymore ]]> Eating Disorders norsemen http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188585-bulimic-advice.html http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188214-greysheet.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:32:43 GMT Are there any Greysheeters here? Are there any Greysheeters here? ]]> Eating Disorders sista http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188214-greysheet.html http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188176-explaining-last-10-years.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:18:39 GMT to old best friend from high school.....Not sure what to tell her when she ask me to fill her in........mental break downs, anorexia and addiction are my past and present. I don't feel like she would judge me but I'm truly ashamed my life got so out of control. This last year has been full of recovery and new beginnings and I'd rather just live in the present with her.

Anybody been in my shoes??What did you do?? ]]> Eating Disorders mxchaos http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/188176-explaining-last-10-years.html http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/187628-new-here-fat.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:57:28 GMT Hello everyone... I found sober/recovery looking for something about nar-anon. I recently found out (less than 4 wks ago) that my 22 year old son is an addict. He lives with us. I am trying to... Hello everyone... I found sober/recovery looking for something about nar-anon. I recently found out (less than 4 wks ago) that my 22 year old son is an addict. He lives with us. I am trying to deal with that info, but the way I have learned to deal with stress is TO EAT! So needless to say my eating the last 4 weeks has been OUT OF CONTROL!!! So much so that my co-workers have been mentioning my sudden weight gain, someone even asked me if I was pregnant...I am almost 50 years old! My eating while I'm at work and occupied is in control. It is at night that I lose control. There is nothing that I have found that occupies me enough to not eat. The other thing I have to do is stop looking in my son's room to find out what "stuff" he has in there. When I find it... I go right to the food! I went to one OA meeting, I will go to another next week. Any suggestions??? Thanks! ]]> Eating Disorders llm http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/187628-new-here-fat.html http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/eating-disorders/187384-ed-treatment.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:23:25 GMT I have a problem with compulsive eating which has gotten much better over the years but I still struggle with it. Over the past three years, I've read books about intuitive eating (Geneen Roth, Karen Koenig, Susan Hirschmann), which makes so much sense to me.

I am at the point now where if I listen to what my body wants, it's usually something healthy (what I would have considered before as diet food). I'm also finding that I feel best when I eat three meals a day. Less obssessive, etc.

I just finished reading Jenni Schaeffer's book "Life Without Ed" and somewhere in the book she talks about having three meals a day as part of her recovery plan.

I've never been officially treated for an eating disorder and wanted to ask if anyone out here eats three meals a day and has experienced significant recovery from their eating disorder or just what they've found and if this is a good track to take?

I don't think diets work. I'm also 2.5 yrs sober from alcohol.

thanks.

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