Owning your concerns is a good first step. Awareness
that you need and *want* to change will help you
tremendously meet the challenges of actually mastering
your relationships with food. Since food is necessary
for life and easily accessible makes it also easy to
use it for comfort. Instead of eating to live, we often
find ourselves living to eat~!

There are many directions to go to find help. One which
worked for me, and my personality, was Geneen Roth's
books and tapes. Perhaps it was her admonition to always
have a piece of chocolate in your purse, or her willingness
to work through her own food relationships and share her
frailties. I also liked that she leaves you in the end
with no fear of food. Its about choice and owning your
choices. I used to be more of an emotional eater. To
soothe sorrow, to celebrate joy, to assuage boredom and
to stuff emotions I did not want to deal with. I sifted
though many books and gleaned from them what I needed but
very often, it was Geneen's books and tapes which spoke
to me in a way I could resonate with. Here is a url to her
website,
http://www.geneenroth.com/
but I could also
encourage you to go to a bookstore and check out books
for yourself which may appeal to you. It takes 30 days to
change a behavior so work at mentally making a commitment
to a self-change program which says YES to you~!

Here at Curezone, you also have opportunities to learn about
colon cleansing, liver flushing, and parasite cleansing which
would be beneficial to your goals since they bring your body
back into a state which is free of freeloaders and toxins.

If you want to really commit to a cleanse which would give
you mentally the time needed to examine your relationships
with food, I can recommend the Master Cleanse. I have used
it successfully to get control over my emotional eating.

Here is also a link to an article which helps raise your
awareness on what triggers your emotional eating. It can
help to give you more control and to channel your needs
in other positive directions...


//www.curezone.org/blogs/m.asp?f=770&i=54


Ideally, when you embrace living a healthier lifestyle,
it will be something you begin and keep doing. Each cleanse
will build on another and you will want to keep meeting the
challenge of wanting to better yourself and the quality of
your health.

I admire that you wish to begin at your age when so many
spend the time to ingrain the poor food relationships which
later will fail them. I wish you much luck on your healing
path~~!

blessings,
Zoe

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Get Joel Fuhrman's (M.D.) book Eat to Live. There he lists all the foods that you can stuff yourself on and it's impossible to gain weight. There are lots of them . I love, but you probably wouldn't, Kidney and Garbanzo beans in olive oil and Balsamic Vinegar with dried onions and Mrs. Dash. Only use 1 Tbl. of oil though, and about 2 Tbl of vinegar to two cans of beans. Stuff yourself. You'll lose weight and be full, full, full.
Get the book.
best, Mike D

Hey dude, forget all the hype and BS about "owning" or "affirming" your illness. These are just pathetic "positive" slants on a negative problem, perpetuated by fraudsters and other weak willed fatties, who like nothing better than to sit around empty Big Mac wrappers and bemoan their "problems". UNDERSTAND, YOU GOT NO "illness" chubster, just a weak mind, fat ass and a propensity to make excuses. I can say this cause I was once a 6foot 350lb tub-o-lard. The moment i realised what a sad bag-o-sh I was, was the moment I made a wholesale change and now am one of the sexy people. And its hard...damn hard to stay in shape...but its harder enduring peoples well deserved despite and disgust. Forget all the deep and serious ills of obesity, they're well documented, instead lets be vacuous and shallow. Dude, you ain't gonna get no trim if your ass has its own postcode or your gut could double as a billboard. You'll have no friends, or worse, only fat loser friends -which guarantees a downward spiral into contemptitude(my own word and am mighty proud of it too). But most importantly: YOU'LL GET NO TRIM... Or worse, you'll settle for some fat-trim that Japanese whaling ships try to harpoon every time it goes near water. Don't get cut...just cut the self pity and the food. Remember that other people will hate you FAR more for being fat, than you could ever hate yourself. Put the twinky down and do some push ups...NOW.