I lost the amount of weight I wanted to plus some, and now I'm technically underweight (5'4" and 98 lbs). I feel great about my body and the way I eat, but am becoming more and more anxious about food. For example, I know I'm going out for lunch on Thursday and have basically been planning all my eating around the fact that I'll be going out. Or that my boyfriend gets home for the summer soon and I know we'll sleep through breakfast and lunch, but will go out to eat every night for dinner. I was never like this before, and just want to be able to accept that I am fine and make eating a casual part of my life again. How can I stop caring so much and get back to my normal life?? (eating what I want, when I want, trusting myself to eat well which i do). i don't want this consuming my life anymore.
2007-05-01 17:16:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
You are right to see the potential for a problem, that you are becoming obsessed about food, and that you are using it to try to have a feeling of control in a disordered world. You need the skills of a professional, not Yahoo Answers. Start with your family doctor (or school nurse if you are still in school.)
Much credit to you for noticing the problem, facing it head-on and getting help! !
2007-05-01 17:25:22 · answer #1 · answered by Mother Amethyst 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you weigh too little. I've been through the obsessing myself, seemed like I thought of food all day. I would think about what I was going to eat and at what time but I think it was probably because I was hungry and wanted so much to eat. I stopped obsessing about the food after I lost the weight and it helped so much to be busy, have lots of things to do and your eating times won't be the only thing in your life. Exercise. After I'd lose the weight I still thought about food because I watched what I ate but I wasn't obsessing over it the whole day because I felt good about how I looked. Guru is right, when I was doing a temporary diet that's when it was a problem but changing my eating habits as a permanent way of life I don't think it was an obsession, I think it just becomes "normal" and you get used to it so you don't think about it as much but if you're thinking- I just want to lose so much and then go back to your normal eating habits that's when I monitored it so much plus I would gain it back because it wasn't a permanent solution. Darn it, I'm hungry!
2007-05-01 17:24:21 · answer #2 · answered by strawberry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heya! Im a recovered bulimic, for me to get over the mental part of the disorder, I had to really start focussing on getting healthy, not getting skinny. Everytime I ate anything, I told myself "Im eating this to get healthy" or "I'm exercising to get healthy" etc. Make everything start revolving around getting healthy, this will take a little time, but the more you say it to yourself, the more you will start believing it, the more you focus on getting healthy (or for you, staying healthy), the better you will begin to feel, once you start feeling good both inside and outside, the eating part becomes less and less apart of your thinking. I hope this is helpful to you, good luck!
**HUGS** Toni Lynne
If you'd like more information on eating disorders, this is a great informative site I put together,
http://www.myeatingdisorder.com
2007-05-01 17:47:42 · answer #3 · answered by tonilynne 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is wonderful that you lost weight, however, you didn't adjust your thinking to match.
This is the problem of dieting. The fear of gaining weight now has you trapped. It is likely that you haven't made a lifestyle change as a means to eat for your health rather than to maintain a number of the scale.
When you make the lifestyle change that maintains your body weight, some of your anxiety will lessen.
If you are using drastic measures to control your weight, the moment you veer from this, you weight will change.
Eating for health and eating for appears are very different animals.
2007-05-01 17:22:24 · answer #4 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just stay active dont stop excersizing and you really can eat all and anything you want but you will just like everyone else have to eat in moderation overeating is why we get fat and eating carbs before bed so just keep active and excersize
2007-05-01 17:20:49 · answer #5 · answered by big 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
good for you. you realized that you have a problem and you're not in denial. the only thing i suggest for u to do is go to your doctor, tell him what u told us, and he/she will help you get through it as healthily as possible.
2007-05-01 17:23:06 · answer #6 · answered by mrs.potter 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds to me like it's already a disorder.
I'd look in the phone book under mental health.
2007-05-01 17:21:20 · answer #7 · answered by Paul P 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋