Help for overeating is a growing need in our culture today. We are constantly bombarded with media messages about eating. Eating more, eating less, eating right, eating healthy, eating to lose weight, eating to prevent cancer, eating, eating, eating. Now on top of that add in all the stress in our society about being successful, being beautiful, being a good spouse, being a good parent being a good student, being a good employee and then add in a splash of financial pressure and what you have now is a potential over eater.
I should know because I am just now climbing out of that hole. I had faced down drugs, alcohol and cigarettes and saw them for what they were…a means of coping with my “problems”. Once I was free of these, overeating starting easing in while I was unaware because it was socially “acceptable”. But the truth was I had just found a more socially acceptable method of “coping “. Problem is that I had coped my way up to almost 300 pounds.
At the height of my overeating problem I would eat until I was just plain miserable. But 45 minutes later I would be in the kitchen looking for something else to eat even though my mind is screaming at me…”What are you doing?…You’re not even hungry.” I was well on my way to a massive heart attack when I started looking for help for overeating.
I am not quite sure how I arrived at that site that I stumbled on but it is was there that I first heard of a method for weight loss that uses 24 hour short term fasting…and I laughed out loud, literally. The thing that intrigued me though was this was so completely different than everything else I was hearing about weight loss and nutrition.
This book has given me the help for overeating that I was looking for and it has changed my life radically. I have dropped about 35 pounds in six months without dieting. What I thought would be difficult, if not just down right useless, was the very thing that set me free. By choosing not to eat for short 24 hour periods I have now obtained so much experience and control in this area of my life. This may sound weird, but for me, it is easier to choose to “not eat” than it is for me to choose to “eat right”…does that make sense?
“Hunger” was the giant that kept me from ever winning this fight before. But what I found out was that the “hunger giant” was only a giant in my mind. When I actually stepped out on the field with him…he was mostly talk. I started fasting breakfast a couple days a week to get a little experience. Then I started fasting breakfast and lunch on Mondays and Thursdays. I have fasted longer but for weight loss purposes it is not necessary. These longer fasts were just for my personal experience..sort of my way of giving the giant “the finger” so to speak.
If you are in need of help for overeating then you may want to read my personal review of the book that has set me free from obsessing about food day in and day out. You can read about my experience by clicking here.
