Thread: losing weight after bulimia

Welcome to the Forum.

Firstly, don't ever feel frightend to "talk" we don't know you, you don't know us

The hardest thing to do is to change something that we are "used to doing", something that becomes part of our patterns in life, our "crutch", how we get through the next day.

That is the answer.. Not "how?" but what....

Then there is the "reason" why we started do you know?

ie) Smoking... I started because I was rebellious... My Mother didn't want me to, she did, she wouldn't let me do anything and so I started smoking.

Why can't I stop? Because I have done it for so long and way beyond 10 years so how do I change the pattern?

I have to realise and understand and laugh and say, pfttt, it's a pattern, it's not what I want to do, I do it because it's a habit ( and there is an addiction) like food.

So I have to believe and I have to have reasons.

So you have to have reasons.. Why do you want to lose weight, what would you look like, what would you benefit from doing it, how much money would you save, what type of life would you life, imagine yourself walking along that beach in a bikini you loved, you bought and you look hot, good... Imagine, that you know that if you ate, really good foods you would feel more energy, imagine what that energy would do, imagine jumping up and down on the spot going "what a feeling" and the body.

And, then use afirmations, post a picture of who you want to look like on a wall, tell yourself you want this, and believe..

It's your mind playing tricks, those tricks it's been doing since day dot, now it's time to change that mind, and that pattern, with visualisation of who and what you want to be.

Remember, it's your life...... Don't let the mind trick you, go and get what you want.

CW