Q. Did you used to have junk food addictions or binge eating, or just generally unhealthy eating habits, as in eating a lot of foods high in salt, carbs, fat, sugar, or sodium and few fruits or vegetables? If so, what ways worked for you to kick those habits to the curb for good, and keep a healthy diet? What other factors did you find fit int the situation that helped clear up the habits?
I am over 30 and I need to change my eating habits because soon I may have serious health problems as a result. I ain't 18 anymore! LOL Hence the reason I'm asking the question.
Just an extra detail even though there's less than a day left on the question. LOL A couple of you have mentioned losing weight; that's not an issue for me, I've always been skinny (luckily). I'm trying to change my habits so I STAY that way, and of course avoid the health issues. :)
I am over 30 and I need to change my eating habits because soon I may have serious health problems as a result. I ain't 18 anymore! LOL Hence the reason I'm asking the question.
Just an extra detail even though there's less than a day left on the question. LOL A couple of you have mentioned losing weight; that's not an issue for me, I've always been skinny (luckily). I'm trying to change my habits so I STAY that way, and of course avoid the health issues. :)
A. First, let me validate your decisioin to change your eating habits. I did mine and I don't regret it at all! It seems the body can take only so much of the same old diet then it starts to rebel.
What I did is I started to learn asian cooking...and have never regretted it. Besides eating mostly rice and chicken now, I think one of the main changes was to Peanut Oil. I have now come completely off of "vegetable oil", which seems to have been clogging my skin pores and making me feel generally tired and crappy. Also, I gave up on rapeseed (Canola) years ago. Seems it is also "toxic" to a degree. But I have no problem so far with Peanut Oil. It's a bit more spendy, but well worth it! My skin pores are gradually clearing out and they can breathe better. My color is returing and I'm even beginning to exercise!! I'm not 18 anymore either, but if you treat your body well, it should rebound.
Good luck!
What I did is I started to learn asian cooking...and have never regretted it. Besides eating mostly rice and chicken now, I think one of the main changes was to Peanut Oil. I have now come completely off of "vegetable oil", which seems to have been clogging my skin pores and making me feel generally tired and crappy. Also, I gave up on rapeseed (Canola) years ago. Seems it is also "toxic" to a degree. But I have no problem so far with Peanut Oil. It's a bit more spendy, but well worth it! My skin pores are gradually clearing out and they can breathe better. My color is returing and I'm even beginning to exercise!! I'm not 18 anymore either, but if you treat your body well, it should rebound.
Good luck!
How do i stop chocolate/biscuits/sweets binges?! I eat so healthily and try to control my calories and weight?
Q. I have been struggling with an eating disorder for a while and manage to eat healthily and restrict calories well but my only downfall is chocolate,sweets,ice cream and biscuits! I know about the calories but i can't help myself, after i feel guilty and purge, sometimes making myself sick or others excessive excersise. Please don't say i'm bulimic. Also any tips for hiding weightloss from parents?
A. I began to limit my intake of diet soda quite a bit, and a side effect of that was I did not crave sweets any longer. I still enjoy soda every now and then, but not several times a day like before. I wonder if soda makes blood sugar go up and down. It was diet so I thought it was ok to drink but now I'm thinking there is some ingredient in it that makes the brain go nutz for sweets. Good luck in discovering what works to calm the craving & make a good choice of what to eat at that moment.
Also, consider when you "crave sweets & nothing ever satisfies" you. Because that is Emotional Hunger. I experience that and it is very hard. It means I want grandma-to-hug-me, or something like that (a comfort, a bit of love, someone who understands & says it'll be all right). But at least the realization that food will never satisfy emotional hunger helps me to understand what is going on inside the brain-stomach connection. On my diet, sometimes I feel like my brain talks to my belly like a 3 year old child kicking another 3 year old child because a toy is missing. Humor saves me sometimes and gets me through those times of Seriously Insane Cravings until the nutty beeping message from the brain to the belly wears off. Maybe think about cravings as a ringtone you have got to change ! Good luck figuring out what are better choices of foods to eat.
Also, consider when you "crave sweets & nothing ever satisfies" you. Because that is Emotional Hunger. I experience that and it is very hard. It means I want grandma-to-hug-me, or something like that (a comfort, a bit of love, someone who understands & says it'll be all right). But at least the realization that food will never satisfy emotional hunger helps me to understand what is going on inside the brain-stomach connection. On my diet, sometimes I feel like my brain talks to my belly like a 3 year old child kicking another 3 year old child because a toy is missing. Humor saves me sometimes and gets me through those times of Seriously Insane Cravings until the nutty beeping message from the brain to the belly wears off. Maybe think about cravings as a ringtone you have got to change ! Good luck figuring out what are better choices of foods to eat.
What are your feelings about your eating disorder?
Q. I am writing a paper on eating disorders and I think it would be helpful to those reading it to really understand how someone feels with an eating disorder. If you have anorexia, bulimia, and/or compulsive eating, would you please tell me how this makes you feel?
A. Since I was little I remember feeling that it was very important to be skinny. I was extremely sensitive about weight. I was always scared out of my mind of being fat. Part of it was because when I was little the meanest thing you could call someone was "mean" or "fat" and I got bullied a lot when I was in Elementary school. When my family moved just before middle school, I had an extremely low self esteem and a fear of being fat... so I was pretty much destined to have an eating disorder. I mean I felt like my life was out of control, and I had gained a few pounds so in my eyes I had to be fat. All I remember thinking was that I could not get fat, that I'd rather die. I remember as I became tinier and tinier that I began to feel a sense of pride over my frailness and it was, in my head, my only good quality. So when my friends and family tried to get me to gain weight in 8th grade. I thought they were crazy. Being thin was all I had, and sometimes I believed that the only reason my friends were my friends was because I was skinny. I honestly believed that my whole self identity was based on being the skinniest girl in the grade. But then my friends basically forced me to eat when I was with them and they would ramble off stupid facts about the effects of eating disorders, and they went to the school counselor. At first I was angry, but it was one of the only time I ever felt loved when my friends were crying over the fact that I couldn't eat a piece of pizza without throwing up. I tried to get better once I felt like people needed me to get better and that I was loved and therefore worth something, but I was so addicted to being skinny. Then one of my stupid freinds told my crush at the time to talk to me about my eating disorder. He handed me a bowl of spaghetti at a party and insisted that I eat it. I insisted I was fine. He was insistent that I was anorexic if I didn't eat his stupid spaghetti. So I ate a whole plate of spaghetti everyday just to try to prove to him that I was not some crazy anorexic girl. Well, it worked. I got 'cured'. But then I moved again, and again, and again. 3 times during my first few years of high school. And everytime I moved I felt completely confused and lost, and even though I've figured out how stupid eating disorders are, I always succumb for a few weeks to the binge-purge cycle of bulimia. Then it goes away and, I always think I'm fine, that it's over completely, until something drives my emotions crazy and I don't know how to handle it so I use my only coping mechanism for a few days. I'm proud to say that it's been 3 months since I last threw up, the longest it's ever been between relapses, and I'm hoping that I finally kicked the habit.
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