Hi everyone, I’m m31 6”2.
So I’m new here and just wanted to share a bit of my story over the last year. For context I’m someone who’s always struggled with binge, emotional and secret eating. I have bipolar disorder which makes it quite difficult to regulate.
I got a cholesterol result last June that freaked me out, having got up to 7.6 from 5.8 the year before. It was just one of those things that felt like a proper wake up call. At the same time I weighed in at 110kg, which put me into the obese category.
Anyway the first thing I did was sign up for a quick discussion about it with my GP. I’d never mentioning any food issues before to anyone really, even hiding how much I was eating from my wife, so this step was HUGE. It felt like a *cough* weight had been removed.
So a week later I was in a CBT talking session, just me saying things and them listening and asking questions. Any of you who’ve experienced similar things to this will know how strange it feels, unloading thoughts you haven’t let out all your life (or since I was around 10 in my case).
The lessons that came through over the next few months were building a kinder relationship with myself, as well as learning repeated thinking patterns to get away from emotional eating.
Diet-wise, it involves no food being “bad” so nothing is off limits. It just has to fit in with an overall week/ month of a balanced diet. Most days I stick to eating under 20g of saturated fat and eat 3 meals a day. Nothing revolutionary and no calorie counting.
Anyway I weighed in at 82.2kg this week and my latest cholesterol test was at 4.8. I don’t have an overall point or anything, I just wanted to share my story where the huge step was opening up on my disordered eating. Hanging onto it on your own for years is so so hard.
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