Comments on: Healing the Past

By: julie

julie — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:57:31 +0000

Totally awesome, as usual, Diane. All the nutritional knowledge and understanding of calorie balance won't help one whit in the face of emotional eating. .-= julie´s last blog ..wheels keep spinning =-.

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By: sian-girlgetstrong

sian-girlgetstrong — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:30:55 +0000

WOW! great post! I just read this great articile in O mag about food. It was on about saying it was not about the eating or isn't about the food either..we need to have a healthy relationship with food. It also said to try to stop wasting so many precious thoughts about food...it was a good read.-TY once again .-= sian-girlgetstrong´s last blog ..So many choices in Fitness Events~What are you doing? =-.

By: karen@fitnessjourney

karen@fitnessjourney — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:07:01 +0000

It is absolutely necessary to address your emotional issues if you are going to have long tern success. It is so much easier to drown your emotions with food than to face them, but the rewards are so great when you are willing to tackle what haunts you from your past. .-= karen@fitnessjourney´s last blog ..What I Learned From an Injury =-.

By: Missa

Missa — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:59:50 +0000

Great Post!
I think being aware of your emotions while ‘doing the fitness math’ is the key. Emotions paired with eating is where all the disorder comes in. So, I think a huge key is education. It took me years to realize that I had a bad emotional relationship with food, and it took really examining how my body works to truly understand it. I can’t tell you how many blogs I read where people say they don’t have a bad relationship with food, but in the same post say things like, ‘I am so stressed, so I ate a candy store’.

Cheers,
Missa
LosingEthel

By: Deniz

Deniz — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:42:48 +0000

Hmmm, this is really quite interesting. My gut reaction in the past would have been… it’s a ‘physical’ issue. After all, it’s scientific and logical, right? Well, these days I’m none too sure and my head tells me that the ‘emotional’ issue is a much closer fit.

I’d never really connected the two things before, but I went to counseling sessions for something other than weight issues a few years ago. They helped me a lot with the problems I had, although it wasn’t easy (in fact it was damned hard and very painful). It took time, and the effects were not really evident to me for quite some time after I stopped going. But, slowly I found that I had changed.

This time around when I tried to lose weight for the umpteenth time (post-counseling), things went much better. OK it took time, but I’ve lost a lot of my old flab and it does seem to really have been a ‘life change’ so it’s staying off.

Having read your post I wonder if the counseling somehow helped me with this too, just by helping me see things differently and really examine what was going on and why. Serendipity? Who knows.

I may not have ‘healed’ the past totally either, but I do feel I’m a stronger person and the past is now much more firmly in it’s place, not shaping every negative thought. That surely must help with making changes to one’s life, whether it be to lose weight or in some other way.
.-= Deniz´s last blog ..Gym success =-.

By: 266

266 — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:38:50 +0000

Absolutley the emotional part is important! For me, I was able to work through a lot of that stuff prior to starting my blog, and so I have more had to deal with habits than anything else since beginning this journey. I still have issues pop up now and then though that require proper attention and consideration. .-= 266´s last blog ..Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily! Life Is But A Dream! =-.

By: Cynthia (It All Changes)

Cynthia (It All Changes) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:48:09 +0000

For me it was definitely both. I overate because I had problems from my childhood but once I taught my body about overeating I had to unlearn the physical things. .-= Cynthia (It All Changes)´s last blog ..Not Enough D =-.

By: Rebecca @ How the Cookies Crumble

Rebecca @ How the Cookies Crumble — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:24:39 +0000

For me weight is emotional, but in a different way. Even though no one in my life pressures me to look a certain way, I pressure myself. I have never been “thin”, I’ve always been healthy, thick and with a side of big bones. Anytime I may have been “thin”, I wasn’t being healthy. It’s hard knowing you are eating the right food and exercising properly and knowing you will never be considered skinny. I wasn’t made to ever be skinny. But I have found satisfaction in knowing I am healthy and have a long life ahead of me because of the healthy life decisions I make.
.-= Rebecca @ How the Cookies Crumble´s last blog ..My First Half Marathon =-.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:20:36 +0000

Such a good post. I think that weight gain almost always=emotional things going on…true for me anyway. Through the last several years I’ve worked hard on past issues and I believe this is why I’m now doing well in the weight loss game, I’ve changed a lot of things about the way I think, the way I deal, the way I exist. I think you HAVE to address the emotional things.
.-= Katie´s last blog ..50 pounds lost =-.