TruuFriend Jan Shepard shares her experiences with a life-long eating disorder and her success in losing 200 pounds! Can you relate to using emotional “fillers”? Read on and share your thoughts!
I was fortunate to meet Jan Shepard several years ago when she shared her incredible story about transformation and losing 200 pounds. Successfully keeping the weight off—and more importantly—learning what was at the root of her eating disorder is a message Jan regularly shares as she wants to inspire and educate others. She’s really an incredible woman! Here’s her latest post on Binge Eating:
As long as I avoided experiencing my emotions, I resorted to addictive patterns. And even though I have maintained a 200-pound weight loss for nearly a decade, I still do. The reason is pretty simple—I am human and not perfect. I am not always in touch with my emotions and sometimes I only know that I am upset when I am halfway through what I call a mini-binge. I call it a mini-binge because my binges used to be eating for a family of five. Now it’s just a couple pieces of pizza. And since I no longer always do black and white thinking (you know, seeing only the extremes as alternatives), I can stop and go back to eating in a way that works best for my body.
My last mini binge was a few days ago when I was feeling discounted. That particular button is a kicker for me, as it can be triggered not only by others’ behavior, but also by my own as well. As a matter of fact, I’m probably much better at discounting myself than the world is at discounting me. I used to see people as divided into two categories (there’s that black and white thinking again)—the “what’s wrong with me” people and the “what’s wrong with them” people. For years I was a “what’s wrong with me” person. Now I know it’s a “nothing’s wrong with anyone” world we live in, where we are all doing the best we can with what we have.
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Read more about Jan on her blog at Janshepard.com.
Originally published on truuconfessions.com
