Anyone have a good weight loss regime they’d like to share?

I’ve tried everything but can’t seem to stay on anything for very long. I’ve had good results from time to time but now I just feel hopeless. Anyone want to be my diet GURU????? I’ll listen to any and all advice.
Thanks to all who are willing to help!!!!

Okay, this is going to sound crazy, but I’m serious, and if you can get over the strangeness of it- and think about it- it will make sense.

The best ‘weight loss’ regime is going to be to follow a sort of eating-disorder recovery program. Yes, you may not be bulimic or anorexic, but chances are a lot of the behavior that people with these disorders do- are behaviors you do as well.

In reality, everyone has an eating disorder. Look at the obseity rates in the US- and look at the diet industry. It’s huge!! Clearly, if you’re overweight- you have some kind of eating style that is ‘disordered’. (You may also have body image issues that you ‘think’ you need to diet when you don’t- but we’ll assume that’s not the case for the sake of brevity).

Who better to help you fix your food issues that then people who specialize in it?? I’m not saying- please go put yourself into in treatment or something like that- but I would recommend trying a lot or a few of the workbooks out there related to recovering from eating disorders.

You may these books are all about gaining weight because you imagine people with eating disorders as tiny little skeletons- but they’re not. Lots of people with eating disorders are average, or overweight. They’re really all about getting back to eating like a normal person- eating when you’re hungry, stopping when your full.

The workbooks are fantastic because address the mental processes that are driving your eating behavior. In other words, what you think about dieting, yourself, and how to eat, and how to diet determine your actions and eating patterns, so by changing your thoughts, you change your behaviors.

They give you tools to help deal with the whys and the how-to-stops of eating because your stressed, or tired, or anxious, or annoyed, or angry, or bored, or guilty, etc. They also addressed mentalities that sabotage your diet, like labeling foods as “good” or “bad” or “black/white” thinking. They’ll also educated you on the binge-starve-purge cycle, and other behaviors.

You may not think you do these things- but you probably do. You may have a day where you eat a slice of chocolate cake- and feel guilty because you ate a ‘bad’ food. So you decide well- i’ve already blown it- so I mind as well go crazy, and you binge like mad (or maybe you don’t, but you still feel guilty) so the next day you’re super ‘good’ and you restrict your diet to only ‘super good’ food. Or maybe then you go to the gym for an hour to work it off.

Bulimic/Anorexics do the same thing- just in extreme. They’ll eat the WHOLE chocolate cake (instead of a slice), eat NOTHING the next day (instead of eating minimally, like you do) or go the gym for FOUR hours instead of One.

And then they start all over again. Just like you.

Really, there has been so much extensive research done on how to help people with not-normal eating patterns get back to normal eating matters- why on earth would you not take advantage of it?

Weight Loss Guru meets Bookiebo


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