
Eating Disorders Support Group
Eating disorders are marked by an obsessive need to control the intake and/or purging of food. This community is dedicated to those struggling on the road to recovery. Join to discuss your experience with others and find support. Get advice, ask questions, and meet others who are going through similar struggles.

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I do okay until I eat one thing that sets me off, that is usually either sugar or fat (the combo is the worse). I started following the Schwarzbein Principle which wants you to eat whole foods - cream instead of milk, etc. It's based on endocrinology. I read it and it made so much sense but when I started it, it allowed lots of natural, healthy fats. Well I would get the sour cream and heavy cream and pour out one serving - an ounce. And then I would just eat the whole thing. I'm trying to reset my metabolism but I have gained 20 lbs already on this plan. I have to just cut out sugar and dairy fats, that's it. sugar is a drug in my system. The Schwarzbein Principle claims, if you follow the plan, eventually you will reset your metabolism and won't have cravings but I can't get through it - I don't want to gain a huge amount of weight first. Help

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Have you tried OA? Its not a diet or calorie club. The funny thing is that people with ED's know everything there is to know about nutrition and health, but this isn't enough to help ourselves from refraining from compulsive overeating. I have been in OA 3 months and have been binge free. The hardest thing you need to do to start recovery is to say goodbye to all the diets, all the metabolism re-setting ideas. you need to devise a food plan that is healthy and balanced, and will be food you will continue to eat day after day. I promise you that if you do this, your body will re-set itself naturally. My poor body endured years of binging and starving which would mean i put weight on so easily. Now that i have been eating 3 meals a day with 2 snacks in between my body is losing weight in its own time. It is great you know what your trigger foods are. You need to stay away from these foods....and OA teaches you how to do this. Sugar was a huge problem for me before OA. Go to oa.org and find a meeting near you. You need to say goodbye to schwarzbein principles, south beach, cohen blah blah blah....it's all rubbish! Yer you might lose weight....but what happens when you lose it....then what? We go back to our old eating.

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oh my gosh I can understand that..I wouldn't want to do that etiher. I wuold have to see someone who really did the plan and it really worked...but I guess if you don't try something you'll never know and you'll wonder for the rest of your life...so I guess maybe I would try it for the sake of my happiiness....I don't know...nothing is easy in life...
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