New & Looking for Advice & Support

[aqualady]

Hi, I'm new to this site but not in dealing with compulsive eating/binge eating issues. I've accepted that it's not about willpower and have finally pushed aside my embarrassment and made an appointment to get help. I hope in making this huge step I will be on the path to healing and recovery. I was hoping someone would give me ideas on books to help me understand the "WHY" and tools for cure. I've been looking over Anatomy of a Food Addition by Ann Katherine and Sark's Journal & Play Book. Any comments or suggestions?

Thanks,

[kareliz]

I have been reading Overcoming Binge Eating by Dr. Christopher Fairburn. It was actually recommended here by Kensington. It is a great read with very helpful information. I highly recommend it though I don't completely agree with everything he says. But I suppose that is natural.

Congrats to you for making an appointment and taking a step towards recovery! I wish you all the best!!

:bouncekareliz
P.S. I love ALL books by Sark! She's wonderful.

[kareliz]

I forgot to say:

Welcome to the :bowl !!!

:bounce:bounce:bouncekareliz

[MML]

Hello Aqualady,

I'm new around her too and find that there's a wealth of information available on this site, including lots of book suggestions. I love Sark's books, they make me :happy, but they have never helped toward recovery in any true sense.

I too am a compulsive eater and binge eater. Last Saturday I went to my first OA meeting and found it very helpful. They provide a lot of information about recovering from the disease/obsession of compulsive overeating that I found to be right on target for me right now.

Congratulations on making an appointment for help! You will find that you are not alone in your struggle towards recovery!
:peace :love :clover

[jsweetness]

I once suffered from Compulsive overeating, annorexia and bulliemia also. It has been a year and nearly eight months since I have acted out in any of those ways. I dont obsess over food, body image or anything having to do with having an eating disorder anymore because I found recovery. I too used to ask "why" and read self help books and listen to great speakers who would hype me up, but I never found an answer in any of those things, The only place I truly found an answer was in working the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as they are written in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous. In that book there are twelve steps that down and out drunks used to reocver, and I used them as well. I found a woman who spoke of recovery , just the way I am speaking of it and she said she hadnt obsessed, binged, purged or anything in seveteen + years. I knew that at the point in my life I was in wih this illness I was doomed to death or recovery. I knew that tomorrow would NEVER be any different and that there was no Dr or self help book or program that could help me .. I had tried them ALL. When she spoke of recovery she carried a message and I wanted the recovery she had and she was willing to work with me. She took me through the twelve steps and they have changed my life entirly . Not only do I live recovered, I am happy, joyous and free. There is no more days of isolation, or lonliness on an inner level that only we can feel. I am not afraid anymore and I do what I need to get done. I can get out of bed in the morning and the food doesnt call me. It is a totlaly different life. If you want to recover for good an all. I suggest getting a copy of alcoholics anonymous and reading the first ************ pages. It tells you the mid set of someone with obsessive compusivism (which is what we have) You can recover! Anyone can! in that book is everything you need to know about recovering. If you are interested in learning more please email me at Jsweetness************@aol.com

take care!

Jayki

[jsweetness]

my email is jsweetness three three three (but in numbers wit no space btwn my name and the numbers) and the pages are the first hundred and sixty four.

[Allison LHF]

Way to go on taking a step towards ending this and helping yourself! Sorry, I don't have any reccomendations for you, but I believe I may look up the books you said YOU are reading :grin

:bounce Allison :bounce