- I would never diet again.
- I would eat when I was hungry.
Because of years and years of dieting, binging, and yo-yoing with my weight, I was so fed up, tired and just generally at breaking point with my relationship with food. Before I attended that workshop I was really desperate for something, and during and after it, I knew that I had found the thing I was looking for. I know from my own experience that diets don't work, and that my realationship with food was pretty disordered. Now I don't think about food and 'forbidden foods' the way I used to. I don't stress about the things I am 'not allowed' to eat, because basically those things don't exist, I am 'allowed' to eat anything I want. But having given myself permission to eat what I want, my diet is actually pretty good. I actually don't eat loads of chocolate, cakes, chips, sweets etc which is quite a surprise. I actually walk past these things in the supermarket, and don't give them a second glance!
I have come a long way in 6 months!
6 comments:
wow it's really great to read that. I gave up dieting 5 months ago and have gained a small amount of weight. I feel a bit frustrated sometimes as I thought I would lose more but I love the freedom I have in choosing what i want to eat...not what I have been told to eat by whatever diet I was following at the time
Congratulations Alison, you've come so far. I hope that in another five months I find myself in a similar position!
YAY! Delighted to read how great you feel about all this and how much has changed...
Oh, you guys! (blushes)
Congratulations! It's a wonderful free feeling, isn't it? What surprised me most was how much my thinking has changed. I no longer obsess over tiny details of food, and can really pay attention to the rest of my life.
What I like best is the feeling of freedom.
I agree wholeheartedly with the last comment. It is a feeling of freedom!
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