For over 10 years I tried to manipulate my weight by obsessively controlling and restricting my food intake/calories. Long story short: it didn’t work. When I was finally ready to heal, the solution came. Today I am entirely free from emotional eating, food obsession and restriction, chronic bloating, fear of weight gain, AND I lost the weight I wasn’t able to lose previously. This is my story.
Episode breakdown:
- Due to an absent father, family members with unhealthy eating habits, and many other factors, I was highly susceptible to eating disorders and body image issues.
- I started creating rules around my food consumption at 15 years old, lost 12kg on my first diet at 18, and by 19 I was counting my calories and heavily restricting my food intake.
- I was terrified of gaining weight and wanted to be skinny above all else. Thoughts about food and my physical appearance dominated my life.
- In my mid-20s I could no longer maintain a very slim figure. I gained weight and felt uncomfortable and insecure in my body. I also experienced emotional eating and binge eating.
- At 27 years old I was (finally) open to learning about Intuitive Eating. I realised I was stuck in a vicious cycle of food restriction and binge eating. I decided to try something new: let my body eat, and see what happens.
- To my astonishment, my binges stopped when I ceased restricting and controlling my food intake. I was finally free. I could eat what I wanted and stop when I’d had enough.
- When my food obsession was lifted, I realised that my issues with food were a powerful distraction from deeper pains and unprocessed traumas. I later understood that I also utlitised food restriction as a form of self-harm.
- Episodic emotional eating became less and less as I continued to work through everything in therapy and my 12 Step recovery program. I don’t experience emotional eating anymore.
- Over a couple of years, I naturally lost all the weight I’d previously desired to. Today I can eat what I want, when I want, and have no fear of gaining the weight back.
- I never imagined such miracles could occur. If they did for me, they can for you too <3
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Thank you so much for listening! If you resonate with this episode, have your own story you’d like to share, or have any questions, I’d love to hear from you! Send me an email at morewillberevealed.podcast@gmail.com
Lots of love,
Josephine
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