What works for me is just trying to eat healthy and being reasonable. Also, being comprehensive with myself and don't beat myself down over food. I used to try and achieve perfection and it caused me to feel anxious, hungry and annoyed all the time. Now i've made the decision to never stop eating healthy, which means that even when i binge eat or eat in a way that makes me feel sick or isn't good for me (not that frequent anymore) i just go back to eating what makes me feel good in reasonable amounts. Exercising helps me a lot too, and i sometimes will do a bit more if i feel i ate too much.
The thing is... i used to be on a diet all the time and it made me lose touch with my body, my feelings of being satisfied, sensations of hunger, etc. I could never trust myself to eat a little more or a little less because i was just following a program and never my gut feelings and sensations. When you say you feel guilty even when you eat 2 crackers it reminds me of myself when i was sure that there was a formula that defined what and how much i should eat regardless of the circumstances and whether i was truly hungry or not. In my opinion, that's not healthy, its diet mentality. Weight varies from one day to the other. Sometimes we eat more, sometimes we eat less. You may want to have a piece of cake at a party or you may not want to have turkey at the holidays. Its healthy to be flexible with your eating habits, its part of being thin, losing weight and keeping it off. The things is people tend to be either 8 or 80, i know i was.
Last edited by Marina Brasil; 08-19-2014 at 06:24 PM.
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