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Food and your thoughts towards it?Food and your thoughts towards it?
UniqueMystique said: "...............Therapist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
spectrachic311 said: "You have a pretty unhealthy relationship with food if you feel like you can't ever enjoy anything you eat. Life is about so much more than food! It sounds to me like you had a food addiction when you were overweight (lots of us did; I was developing one myself) and never really got over it. Food can't do anything for you except give you nutrition. That's it. So it should taste good for sure. But it can't be a replacement for emotional interactions.
I used to come home from class and be very stressed out about my homework, writing papers, etc. I dealt with the stress by eating things like cookies, ice cream, etc. It didn't make the stress go away...I still had to write the papers. Somehow I felt that the cookies would make me feel better, but all they did was fill me up for a while and make me kind of jumpy. They tasted kind of good on the way down, but honestly I wasn't even thinking about that. Now when I eat a cookie...I EAT a cookie. It has to be fresh, delicious, and good. I eat it slowly and savor it. I don't inhale 5 of them like I used to.
When I decided to get healthy and stop eating junk, I realized I had to find something else to replace my old buddy food with. I decided to write in my journal, call a friend, take a nice bubble bath, etc....things that actually DID make me feel better. When I get stressed now, I go for a run or watch a funny movie or play my clarinet for a bit. Sometimes I go window shopping or I walk my dog. I enjoy so much more of life now that I express my emotions instead of eating and stuffing myself.
Please consider seeing a therapist who can help you. I know it can be hard to get a normal relationship with food. Especially since fruits and veggies are your "safe" foods...foods you know won't make you gain. The honest truth is that all foods are "safe" foods and nothing will make you gain the weight back unless you eat WAY too much of it. You may even consider a treatment program where you can meet other people with problems similar to your own so you can have friends that will help you through this. I wish you the best of luck :)"
docbrown said: "I will be honest, Food hates me. It's a shame that I lost 189 Lbs. and still can't enjoy foods and candy items.. It makes like not worth wild. all week I was excited to have Easter candy for Easter mostly My Cadbury cream eggs, But I went to the Chinese buffet close to where I live and ate so much, then I looked in the mirror and said ro myself "I already ate so much food, If I eat the candy..I will ge heavy again, I want to stay thin" so I ended up not having the candy due to my conscience. because I know I will wake up the next day all heavy and big again, it's not fair!! everyone can have all the candy they want but not me..thats not living at all, I will probably end up dieting forever. I only notice that Fruit and Vegetables are my only friend. so yes I hate food and food hats me!"
docbrown said: "You are very right missred, thank you. it's just that after a while, it gets to you, but you are perfectly right."
klynnfosh said: "I understand how you feel about food. I used to say all I had to do was smell the food and I would gain weight, but I was lying to myself. I had to eat it to get me to the point I was overweight. Food is something you can control if you don't let it control you. A small treat once in a while will not have you packing the pounds on if you stay on track 95% of the time. Don't get on the scale the next day and say I have blown it. Get up the next day and start all over again and it will not put you back where you started. I actually didn't have any Easter candy this year, and I did not even miss it! Have you every noticed when you think you really want something like candy and then eat it, it really wasn't as good as you thought it would be and then you just beat yourself up for having it. Well it is better to eat it and get over it then to let it control you, and then you can move on."
missred said: "You are seeing things all the wrong way. Life isn't about eating candy or whatever else we crave. And don't think that everyone else can eat candy and you can't. You can, it is the amount that you eat that matters. I ate a piece of candy and 1/2 cup of ice cream yesterday, and I'm ok today. I wasn't living for that moment, although it was a nice treat. It takes time to change your thinking, but it can be done. Food doesn't hate you. It can't. You are giving something like food power, it's you that controls everything. Think moderation, for starters. I've been where you are, and it isn't easy to change the way you think about food. But trust me, control is so much sweeter than any cadbury egg."