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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Medication is helping many people. It made me feel sick and I couldn't get above the lowest dose.

I eat between about 6 and 2 pm. Then I stop eating completely and do at least a 16 hour fast. I drink herbal tea and water with lemon. It's been about two months and I'm doing pretty well. I'm definitely down about 7 or so pounds and my clothes are fitting better.

I'm 100% a food addict and this has helped me understand my patterns. [/quote]

Oh I like this idea.

[b]People need to stop beating themselves up for being fat[/b]. Many people lack self-control in a lot of areas. I, for instance, have been trying to spend less time on DCUM for years to no avail, but that fact that I lack self-control in this area doesn't make me feel bad about myself. I'm not overweight so it's probably easy for me to say, but if you need medication, there is no shame in it.[/quote]

This sounds kind, but isn't.  Being fat is an awful drain on yourself, your family, the medical system.  You likely doom your children to the same fate.

You can rewrite your whole family narrative by successfully kicking this habit.[/quote]

I don't mean for it to be kind. I think it's just a fact that beating yourself up isn't the way to make any meaningful change, regardless of how bad what you're doing is. There are a lot of things that are awful drains on an individual, their family, and society, and people don't think that shaming them is the solution. [b]Loving yourself, on the other hand, is transformative and leads to lasting change[/b]. Also, it's not true that losing weight is necessarily going to re-write your family narrative. It might but parents have much less control over their kids than they think they do. I know plenty of thin people with fat kids, and fat people with thin kids, and of course genetics is king when it comes to body size.  [/quote]

It is vanishingly rare to find an American who has trouble loving herself.  If anything, the OP probably loves herself too much.  After all, she constantly awards herself with an astonishing array of treats.

I know the Hallmark movies love this kind of thing, but it's not exactly what you might call "true".[/quote]

You sound like yet another poster to bash Americans, particularly for their weight, so I am tempted to ignore you.  But instead I will state the obvious: "constantly awards herself with an astonishing array of treats" is not love.  It's the opposite.  It's a terrible lack of care and regard for one's body and mind.  [/quote]

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