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Originally Posted by GirlyGirlSebas
Oh yeah. I fight with serious irrational thoughts constantly. My biggest one? People who have lost a lot of weight and kept it off have something special about their brain or their mental processes. Kinda like Lance Armstrong or people like him. You either have it or you don't and few people have it. But, no one really knows if they are one of the "chosen" so we keep trying. Over and over again. Irrational? Yep.
Wow, girly girl...
That was the EXACT thought that kept me binge eating for upwards of 30 years and morbidly obese for 20.... I used to read weight loss success stories and I thought they just didn't apply to me because I had some special psychological quirk.
I wish I could tell you how to get past it-- I did not get past it until I had lost a bunch of weight and suddenly it dawned on me that, like Dorothy and her ruby slippers, maybe I had had the power inside me all along.
I have nothing special. NOTHING. I am a binge-eating, cupcake loving, candycornaholic. I have thrown away half-finished packages of double stuff oreos only to fish the package back out again. I have tossed fast food containers out the window of my car (yes, gasp, littering...) so that my family wouldn't know I ate a whole fast food meal before starting dinner. I used to worry that my cause of death would be choking on a KFC chicken bone while driving and that the EMTs would find me with grease trickling down my chin.
But in reality, I didn't have a special quirk. I just loved food, and was very entrenched in my bad habits, and I REALLY didn't want to give them up, and the rest was just a big old scaffolding of excuses. Sadly, it took my close to 30 years to figure that out.
For me, my main weird irrational thought is that I will always be overweight even if I stay on plan for the rest of my life because my body is incapable of being thin.