I don’t consciously diet to be thinner, but I am preoccupied with eating "right," and often feel like I've screwed up when I don’t follow my own rules. Still, food was always a thing I have had to be careful with, the way some are vigilant around alcohol. My weight has been stable and mid-range for decades. With therapy and practice, I figured out healthier ways of managing my emotions than binging, purging, and obsessively dieting. And if you’ve ever dieted to lose weight, restricting certain foods or trying to blot out hunger until your intermittent fasting window opens at precisely noon makes it really hard not to overeat on the rebound.Īs for me, I had a serious eating disorder in my teens and early 20s ( bulimia, if you’re curious). There are a zillion reasons humans eat beyond capacity - we’re bored, tired, distracted, starved for kindness, feel that leaving food behind is wasteful, or were once food insecure and do it instinctively, to name just a few.
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