Posted in affirmations, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, emotions on 29 November 2007 | No Comments »
Every day I focus more on things that are important and less on the trivial
Fear of rejection is a strong emotion that often caused me to binge in the past. The cycle would be: a perfectly normal event occurs - I twist it into a rejection - decide to binge - blame the fantasized rejection [...]
Posted in affirmations, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT on 9 November 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday’s sadness was good to work through. I feel like I learned something.
Tonight at work I pulled myself out of a funk of feeling not-good-enough by reframing my thoughts. It was arsenic hour, and I was starting to get a little down. Then I remembered “I can take action to change my own life.” So [...]
Posted in Pathway to Normal Eating, affirmations, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, emotions, positive self-talk on 8 November 2007 | No Comments »
Change your shape, change your life.
For emotional eaters, learning to not overeat for emotional reasons means learning how to deal with emotions in other ways. When you do this, though, you become a different person.
The same thing happens when you los weight first. In order to keep it off, you will learn new ways of [...]
Posted in affirmations, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT on 4 November 2007 | No Comments »
Eating disorders are roadblocks to happiness. When you are constantly pushing down all of your emotions with food, you don’t give yourself the chance to experience them, and learn to work through them. Often, eating-disordered people like me are excessively critical of themselves, labeling it perfectionism.
Are we really trying to be perfect, though? Think about [...]
Posted in affirmations, binging, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, portion control, positive self-talk on 23 October 2007 | No Comments »
When I recognized that diets would not solve my ED, I felt anxiety. Anxiety over everything was actually the core of my problem, because eating was the only solution I knew.
Slowly I began to learn new techniques, but the most important thought change I made was to be willing to accept even the smallest attempt [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, emotions, work on 11 October 2007 | No Comments »
Life is shit. Sometimes. However, when you’re ED with a very negative self-esteem, even good events can be bad events. Some people can take even the best of circumstances and reframe them into shit.
I’m in the waiting phase to hear about my possible new job. My relatively objective opinion is that the interview was set [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, emotions on 27 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
I love the name Frances
I hate the color “coral”
I love the fact that in 20 years of marriage my husband has never been able to fix me. Yet he’s still here.
I love Bahlsen Ohne Gleichen wafer cookies with dark chocolate.
I love putting the package away half-finished.
I hate that my German keyboard isn’t listening to me [...]
Posted in affirmations, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, positive self-talk on 26 September 2007 | No Comments »
A hundred times a day a voice in my head has a silent message: “I expect you to do it right, always get what you want, and not burden anyone else while doing it.”
That’s a harsh voice. It’s also expecting the impossible. I don’t like to call it perfectionism, although that’s a fair label. I [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, emotions on 13 September 2007 | No Comments »
Roller Coasters are a waste. So is hang gliding, bungee jumping, any activity that has “Big Air” in its title, skysurfing, lion taming, Pamplona bull running, or wedding dress shopping at Filene’s Basement.
The most expensive roller coasters are now costing $100 Million. That’s unbelievably expensive for a 2 minute ride. Activities like roller coaster riding even [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, positive self-talk on 10 September 2007 | No Comments »
Sometimes enough is enough. I’m starting to realize that, to some extent, I’m recovered enough to get on with life and really push food and eating obsession to the back of my life. I’d noticed that before, but today I chose to live that way too.
Today I got up at 4 a.m. and cleaned the kitchen [...]
