Hi All,

Nice and sad to see the continual new editons of ED. guests.

For me I had to go on a food plan at first to stop binging. I used
the Food Addict book by Kay Shepard. It gave me structure, and a
plan for eating and I ate alot but was skinny so that worked.

Then I would say I went to Overaters Annoymous that helped me talk
more about the problem. I went alot to the meetings for Anorexic
and Bulimics. I did that for quite a few years.

The rest has been hit and miss good and bad up and down. I had lots
of therapy that helped somewhat. Probably more in the begining.

Lastly I found the more I lived the more the disease died. The
Eating disorder wants me sort of to stay alone and die. But I
started going out with people, eating with them, and then I let food
become just food and focused on the people and doing things like
school, jobs, relationships etc. It took alot of time and effort
but it has worked. Every year it got easier as long as I was doing
things to learn about recovering. I even once stopped going to the
gym for about 2 years something I thought would kill me. It was
shocking to learn you could eat 3 times a day and have snacks and
not be 300lbs. I always thought if you ate you were fat. I had to
work on my mind. I was totally out of life in many ways when
bulimic I was a poor girlfriend, family member, and citzen -. It
was sickning so I detached my self from the addiction - Food like an
alocholic does for a while I gave up sugar and wheat and that
helped. Now I eat everything more or less. I still want to be
skinny but it is not my life. I am married with a 1.5 year old baby
and my bulima was already decreasing to only a few times a year in
the past years but luckily I was able to stop when pregnant and now
have not returned so the time is adding up 2.5 years 100% purge
free. Hell it is amazing really but would have been impossible
without all the help and things I did before.

Well Wish you all some peace with food today, tonight, and tommorow.

k.