Seeking Help and Support is step #2 in ending the battle of chronic dieting. It’s also the second step in recovery from an eating disorder. If you’ve been dieting all of your life in order to attain thinness, then you may not be able to achieve body satisfaction and meet the need for self-acceptance alone. If this is you, the greatest gift you can give to yourself is to enlist others…friends, family or professionals to help you achieve healthy body weight (your body’s natural “set point”) without extreme caloric restriction.
Seeking Help and Support might look like:
Don’t be afraid to talk to a professional therapist if you need more support. Ingrained patterns can be very difficult to change. www.edreferral.com. With individual or group therapy you can:
It’s important to ask yourself if there is more going on than just body dissatisfaction. What I mean by that is could you be masking depression with the drive for thinness or by over eating for comfort?
Often chronic dieting or the development of an eating disorder is a mask for feelings in your life over which you sense you have no control; depression, anxiety, or loss. Your body, then, becomes a battleground…something over which you need to exert control. Often by treating the anxiety and depression, or doing grief work resolves the underlying drive for control.
If financial challenges stop you from seeking out a professional, here are several good books to help you overcome your body dissatisfaction and chronic dieting:
Full Lives – Lindsey Hall
Overcoming Overeating: When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies – Hirschmann and Munter
When Food Is Love – Geneen Roth (anything by Geneen Roth!)
Fed Up-Free Yourself From the Diet Trap- Wendy Oliver Pratt
Breaking Free From Food Jail – Jean Antonello
Eating In the Light of the Moon – Anita Johnston
You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay (anything by Louise Hay)
For more resources, please email me at www.colleenperry.com. I look forward to contributing to
your journey toward health. You don’t have to go through this alone.
1. Admit you have needs that haven't been met.
2. Seek help and support.
3. Look for answers...don't stop until you've found them.
4. Look for solutions...stop submitting, stop rebelling.
5. Practice gratitude daily.
6. Develop a balanced point of view.
7. Share your stories with others...you are not alone.
8. Clear away the wreckage of your past...mourn the lost opportunities.
9. Continuously revise your life story.
10. Practice honesty and compassion for self and others.
11. Meet your needs..communicate honestly and directly.
12. Knowing that you are not powerless, food will fall into its healthful place.
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