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Unhealthy relationship with food

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mabel12345 · 06/10/2022 14:39

I have a clear issue with food which I’m aware of. It’s always been very easy for me to gain and lose weight and food was always a big subject in my life. I got married last month and I was on a heathy diet for many months before hand (I also wanted to loose pregnancy weight). I lost 22 kg and was super happy with how I looked and felt great in my body. The problem is, I’m restricting myself way too much..it’s black or white to me, foods are either good or bad, I will only have 2 meals a day and nothing in between, and if I will have something “naughty” the whole day is “ruined” and I’ll end up binge eating for the rest of the day. Currently I’m eating whatever I fancy and I can feel that I’m gaining weight. Scale already shows 3kg more than on my wedding day. It happened to me many times before that I just have a jo-jo effect but I really want to avoid it :( I want to keep my slim body but my relationship with good is just not right. Because I was restricting myself for so long, I now crave everything I couldn’t eat. As I mentioned I can only be on a diet or only eat unhealthy foods (and a lot of it). I know that you can’t really help me, I just wanted to vent and maybe find someone with similar experiences that got out of it and have any advice. I can’t afford a therapist (I’d love to if I could). I could talk about it all day !

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Ltc2020 · 06/10/2022 14:45

Hello, I am not a psychatrist etc but it sounds like you could be struggling with binge eating/restriction and the psychotherapy for it is free on the NHS with CBT. Could be worth looking into?

MuggleMe · 21/10/2022 19:01

Are you still looking to lose? Something like noom might be good?

greektreacle · 21/10/2022 19:09

Slimming world and weight watchers (and Joe Wicks to a lesser degree) really fucked my relationship with food. It's all either good or naughty.

Struggling to get back to a 'normal' midpoint now and so far I'm at 'fuck it I'll eat what I feel like' which I didn't realise was a kind of success til I wrote it down.

Have you looked into Intuitive Eating as an approach?

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