hey all! god i have been having just a horrible last 2 weeks. i just found this place this morning and it looks totally awesome and i am hoping this will really help me get back on track. i had been anorexic for 2 yrs and then turned bulimic for 1 year and now have been a binge eater for the last like 6 months or soo.... i went to an inpatient treatment place back in dec. and jan. and it was totally awesome, i was ready to get over this all and i really learned a lot and know i am much better off now than i was before i went in, but i've majorly fell of the wagon this last like 2 weeks and am hoping to get encouragement from you all to get back on track.

i also was wondering if any of you have tried the south beach diet. i know one thing i learned is that i'm not supposed to do these diets and stuff but i know that carbs and sugars totally are my trigger foods and with the research i've done on the south beach diet it says you are supposed to lose the cravings for these foods, which would be totally awesome for me...so i was just wondering if any of you had any feed back on that.

one more thing, i'm here for any of you anytime! i've been through a lot and feel like i gained a lot of information going to inpatient treatment and if i felt i was responisible for helping one(ormore) of you back on track it would help make me feel like it is more important for me to follow my plans.....

i hope this all made sense to you all! thanks for any input or replies!!!

Inpatient treatment must have made you feel really safe. Sometimes I wish I could get locked away from the food and just concentrate on the healing, but then there is a real world.

Please join us in our daily threads where we share our experience, strength, and hope when it comes to our eating disorders. Many of us have multiple tendencies. I personally have suffered COE, excercise bullimia, and anorexic type behaviors. Another safe place to adress these issues is www.somethingfishy.org

We are very recovery oriented group and though some of us might use the SBD as a guideline for our food plan many of us find that we must treat the food plan as a work in progress. Carefully evaluating how food makes us feel and eliminating triggers whenever possible. Because food and excercise programs may act as triggers for some we like to keep the atmosphere in the language of recovery. "It's not what I am eating (or not eating) its what is eating me."

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Miss Chris

Hey there...

When you say you've fallen off the wagon, what behaviors have you returned to? I've never suffered from bulimia, but I have - like you - alternately engaged in binge eating and anorexia. For me, the two behaviors always resulted from two different types of events. Binge eating was about stuffing down feelings of loneliness and insecurity. Anorexia was about trying to control life events that were beyond my control or trying to kill feelings of ugliness and insecurity. Maybe if you can identify the mitigating circumstances behind each of your behaviors and compare what you're doing now, you can get to the bottom of it.

As for the fad diet...if it were me, I would run as fast as I could AWAY from it! Fad diets have gotten me nowhere but miserable.

Jennelle

I started the SBD 2 weeks ago and did lose all cravings I had for my weakness, which were potatoes...especially french fries.
I can relate to you being hesitant to diet. I was anorexic for 16 years...from age 14 to 28 were the hardcore years. Towards the end of it, I did just as Jennelle described, binge followed by starvation. Although I never took the Dr.'s advice to seek counseling (which if I had when I was dangerously thin at 22, it probably would not have gone on for so long), I was eventually able to learn to deal with my feelings in healtier ways. I went back to my old ways off and on when I turned 30 because my metabolism started to slow as I got older.
I decided that due to the health problems I now have from those 16 years, that I need to take better care of myself. So far in the 2 weeks I have been on the SBD I have lost 7 lbs. and 1" (mind you I'm only trying to lose the 15 lbs I gained since turining 30). I have more energy and have lost all craving for EVERYTHING! I didn't think it would be possible since diets have let me down before, but so far trhis one has delivered what it said it would.