Weight Watchers?

[lela]

Hey everyone-

I think I'm going crazy. We have finals next week, and I have been so stressed out that the only thing I can think of to help me de-stress is to b/p. It is really getting out of hand now, but I'm getting ready to go back home for the summer and I hope that will help. I was thinking of trying Weight Watchers...I don't know if that's a stupid idea but I think it would help me eat moderately and not feel guilty for eating. I know that my problem is deeper than just food, but I really don't want to do this anymore. Is this a good idea?
~Lela

[overit]

Well, yea its a bad idea. Of course it it--but I bet you already knew that. You said yourself that food is not the issue, so neither is eating moderately or not feeling guilty. We use diets, guilt, and things like weight watchers to distract us from what is really wrong---I encourage you to focus on that.

<<<<<Zephaniah ****:********>>>>>>

[overit]

sorry--not sure what happened to the numbers!!

[overit]

why won't the verse numbers work???? anyway, its supposed to be three:seventeen

[Zuzu]

I think a lot of bulimics do well in their recovery w/ the structure of a good food plan. And Weight Watchers is great for that, it's healthy, and there is group support. However, we know how our eating disordered minds distort things - try to think deep down, is there a reason you are looking to a diet organization for a food plan? Couldn't you come up with a healthy one yourself? I only say this because, for myself at least, dieting is playing with fire. It sets me up to either fall deeper and deeper into an unhealthy diet mind set, or to end up binging from periods of deprivation.

Maybe visit a nutritionist or a web site on nutrition to come up w/ a good plan?
Structure: Good
Diet Restriction / Weight Obsession: Bad

Good luck with this. Stay focused on what matters. :love

-Zuzu

[Eilis]

Hi there,

My personal opinion is that you need to stop the b/p ing with help of a professional who deals with eds, and plan a food plan with an experienced nutritionist. There is a vast difference between people who want to lose weight for health reasons vs someone with an ed in which food and weight are the primary focus in order to ignore underlying issues. Anyone with an ed is at jeapordy in a non ed specialized weight loss program.

Overit - the numbers will not work because we do not allow numbers here for the safety of the bowl. rules Please get acquainted with them.

In parting, I think , Lela, you should discuss your ed with a T before exploring weight loss programs. The ISSUE beneath your ed is what is making you b/p - not your weight.

Good luck to you. And please everyone, lets NOT get into a discussion about weight loss programs. I would like to leave this post open for suggestions on alternative healthy coping and therapy. Thanks.

[chronic]

Hi, I'm answering this post rather than posting my own. I'm right there, right now, and I have to say... Don't do it. I'm in Weight Watchers, because I thought I was "recovered enough" to try an get back into the doctors scale weight range. I just finished a huge, major nasty binge purge, because obviously, I'm not ready enough and i'm incredibly angry that I'm not a normal person with a normal, healthy relationship with food. I think it is ok to want to treat your body well, and eat in a healthy and nutitious fashion, but I for one am simply going to have to accept the fact that I can't do that without the help of a therapist. The support of the group isn't enough for me, and there's a underlying "good job" bad job thing going on in any program designed around weight loss. No matter how supportive and well thought out it is. Weight watchers and other programs are fabulous for people who found weight just creeping up on them and they need to learn how to eat. People with an ED KNOW how to eat. We're flipping professionals regarding food. I'm really quite angry right now, because I'm bitterly disappointed yet again that I'm not recovered, that another "I thought I had it together and was going to be able to be thin and healthy was zapped by my as yet unfigured out emotional crap. I'm choosing to stay in Weight watchers for a few more weeks, but I'm starting back with my therapist. The only reason I'm staying in for a while longer, is because I'm hoping to, with some extra couceling figure out what it is about getting to a certain weight that triggers me. I'm going to continue this in another post before I ramble too much.... Good luck in your decisions.