Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:52 pm
Hey everyone,
The part I'm having trouble with is recording what I've eaten.
It's caused me to constantly count calories again. I used to keep a food diary, but the calorie counting caused me to fear I was eating too much so I began restricting myself to 300 - 800 cal/day. Please do not get me wrong. I would never allow myself to get to a weight that was unhealthy, I have just always valued maintaining a healthy weight and exercise routine. (FYI my BMI is "normal" - it's 21.5, and I could never ever allow myself to let it ever go lower than 19; I will never be able to do that sort of damage to myself.)
However, the restricting I did was unhealthy; I realized that, even talked to my doctor about my disordered eating habits, stopped writing in my food diary and by doing that I was able to stop obsessing over my caloric intake. I know it's part of my perfectionism, anxiety, depression, OCD-like tendencies, etc.
I guess I just need some encouragement as to how to go about this part of the homework without obsessing too much (to the point of restriction)...or maybe if I'm missing the whole point of this portion of the homework altogether.
Know your caring words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I didn't know where else to post this so that both new members and people who have gone through the entire program would be able to view this and respond to me.
The part I'm having trouble with is recording what I've eaten.
It's caused me to constantly count calories again. I used to keep a food diary, but the calorie counting caused me to fear I was eating too much so I began restricting myself to 300 - 800 cal/day. Please do not get me wrong. I would never allow myself to get to a weight that was unhealthy, I have just always valued maintaining a healthy weight and exercise routine. (FYI my BMI is "normal" - it's 21.5, and I could never ever allow myself to let it ever go lower than 19; I will never be able to do that sort of damage to myself.)
However, the restricting I did was unhealthy; I realized that, even talked to my doctor about my disordered eating habits, stopped writing in my food diary and by doing that I was able to stop obsessing over my caloric intake. I know it's part of my perfectionism, anxiety, depression, OCD-like tendencies, etc.
I guess I just need some encouragement as to how to go about this part of the homework without obsessing too much (to the point of restriction)...or maybe if I'm missing the whole point of this portion of the homework altogether.
Know your caring words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I didn't know where else to post this so that both new members and people who have gone through the entire program would be able to view this and respond to me.
, was that it was to help us do just that...and pick up on any negative habits or tendancies that we have so that we could address them and correct them.