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- From: jsl+@pitt.edu (John S Lundberg)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: I need HELP!!! (bingeing)
- Message-ID: <9786@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:34:16 GMT
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- In article <ulrike.721993508@gmd.de> ulrike@gmd.de (Ulrike Bauer) writes:
- >...sometimes I plan binges, so I go and buy a lot of food to eat it
- >at home and on the way home. Afterwards I vomit very often, as I'm very
- >afraid to get very huge. And I have put on weight 29 lbs. during the last
- >3 years ( but since last year my weight is stable (with vomitting)).
- >I weight 165 lbs. and I am 5'8'' tall. That is not so much, but I want to
- >loose about 33 to 38 lbs. If I put myself on a diet, it will work longest
- >for 3 to 5 days, and then I start binging again.
-
- Get an opinion from a professional. MY opinion is that you should
- focus on resolving your abuse of food before attempting a diet. Don't
- view eating as a binary state activity: either a diet or a binge. Give
- yourself some slack and accept that eating is a part of life and once
- you feel that you have put the binging behaviors behind you THEN
- consider going on a diet. Too many people are seesawing between
- the kinds of behaviors that you describe and trying to subsist on
- lettuce and rice cakes.
-
- Get a copy of _Food and Nutrition_ by Jane Brody and read it. Someone
- who's 5'8" and 165 lbs is not clinically obese and probably shouldn't
- be trying to "diet" in the first place. (IMHO).
-
- One thing at a time. Progress not perfection.
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- John Lundberg
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