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[quote=Anonymous]I think that you've lost an intuitive relationship with food and it has become a psychological and emotional one. Probably should get some therapy for it, or rather, the feelings that surround food, weight, and eating.

I too had been on diets since a child (and yes, my mother took me to a diet place when I was 12 or so--they looked at me like, wth, you're not overweight! and I wasn't, though I wasn't thin either. i was given vitamins and a 900 calorie a day plan.....at once point, brochures for kids weight loss camps arrived at the house, but I was not heavy enough by far to qualify.....not surprising that my history includes emotional eating/over eating and anorexia/bulimia).

I am in a pretty healthy place now--both in terms of my actual health/weight and my relationship with food. It will never be "normal" as in I dont think about it, food does't still retain some judgment, anxiety,  etc but I can tell you this: if I start to diet, or think about it--or even if DH starts to diet or talk about it, it produces anxiety in me and can lead me to some disordered thinking and habits and all of a sudden I am either depriving myself or thinking about how I am depriving myself and thinking abou the next meal and treats I will or wont have, etc and suddenly I am both skipping meals and eating crap out of anxiety....

so, yes, I got to a good place by not dieting. But it was not the dieting simply that stopped. It was retraining myself to deal with eveyrthing differently. This doesn't mean I dont try to make good choices, think about the nutritional value of food, or try to eat in a way that will maintain my health and weight...but I see that as part of a healthy and happy lifestyle rather than a series of restrictions designed to produce weight loss because I feel like crap about my body.

Might be an interesting experiment for you to simply not diet. But I wonder if you can escape the mental prison of food without some external help, so maybe it is something you can do in concert with therapy. [/quote]

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