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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mashed potatoes. Chocolate. Bread. Pasta.

Once I started eating whatever I truly wanted, in moderation, along with filling up on veggies and lean protein, I lost weight and kept it off. For me, the diets themselves (yeah, plural, over the course of 10 years) were the triggers to bingeing and other terrible food/exercise habits.

Bethenny Frankel's "Naturally Thin" was a revelation, for me![/quote]

x2.  Maybe I will read her book... it certainly seems to have worked for her. [/quote]

I think she takes her own advice too far/too seriously sometimes, but I've adopted probably 80% of her advice (to a lesser degree, probably, than she intended), and it truly has become second nature. I now feel that this sensible, healthy, positive way of approaching food and exercise is how I am naturally! I don't feel like I'm fighting against myself anymore. My very nature has changed.

What caused me to comment here is the title of the thread...no one should have to "survive" a diet. We're not meant to diet. We're meant to have a healthy and enjoyable relationship with food and with our bodies. No one can sustain "survival."[/quote]

Exactly.  I will definitely read it, cause this is the advice I have been trying to live with recently.

A few years ago I decided to be hardcore about dieting.  As a millenial, the first place I turned to was online, looking up dieting advice and motivation.  I was 127 at 5'5, and felt borderline obese.

So anyway, I started dieting hardcore and was pleased when the weight came off.  Over a few months, i restricted more and more, delighting in the changes.  I eventually dropped down to 100 pounds, but was still grossed out by some of the remainign fat around my thighs and hips.

Anyway, to make a long story short- I had developed anorexia, and eventually that turned to bulimia.

Getting over those eating disorders has been the most difficult task of my life thus far.  So, so difficult.  Any time I go on a diet, I felt triggered, and would eventually binge and purge.

Finally I reached a point where it was too exhausting. i decided to truly let myself eat whatever I wanted and felt like I needed, even if it was- GASP- the "bad" foods- bread, ice cream, whatever.

Interestingly though, the weight has begun to come off. I am slowly (not the dramatic results you see on a restictive diet) getting my weight down, and without really thinking about it, other than- I dont allow myself to binge or overeat to the point of discomfort.

It's been revelatory, but I definitely would love advice on how to better do that, and how to manage it for life.

I know no one ever heeds the warnings, i certainly didn't- but diets can be genuinely dangerous, especially if you have a balls-to-the-wall, perfectionist personality- which is pretty common in the DC area.[/quote]

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