Hi everyone. My name's Jean and I would love to have your support in my weight loss journey. I've had a really long and difficult history with my weight, starting ever since I can remember so any help you can offer me would be amazing. First I'll give you some of my past with food so you know what we're up against here....
As a child I ate extremely unhealthy - little or no fruits and vegetables and almost all junk food. As a teen it began to catch up with me and I became overweight. It was during middle school that I particularly struggled with this weight. I felt fat, ugly, alone and unloved all throughout middle school (for reasons both at home and at school) and I used to binge on whole rolls of cookie dough and bars of chocolate everyday because it made me feel better (temporarily). Finally, I decided to change things and I began exercising hard everyday and eating less and less. By the time I reached high school I became so obsessed with being thin and terrified of eating those foods that had made me overweight before that I became anorexic. It got so bad that between middle school and high school I went from 180 pounds to 91 pounds, and I had also grown taller in that time (from about 5'1 to 5'6). I needed to get help.
For two years I worked on getting back to a normal weight and gaining a normal relationship with food. It was hard, but finally I did. I ate and exercised moderately and was finally happy with myself - not overweight or underweight anymore, just normal. I went back to high school and graduated well both socially and academically.
It wasn't until just recently that my binge eating problem has come back, almost as bad as it was in middle school. It started on a cruise (haha in the all-you-can-eat section) and continued the next few months. I went from 125 (a weight I was comfortable at and my doctor said was healthy for me) to 155 pounds in just 3 months and I'm 5'6, 17 years old, with kinda a small frame. I realize its not nearly as bad as it was in middle school but I'm shocked at how quickly I've gained 30 pounds and worry that I'll just keep bingeing until it's much worse. I would really appreciate any help or advice you could give me to help me fight my bingeing problem and get back down to my healthy weight in a safe, quick (if possible haha) way.
As a child I ate extremely unhealthy - little or no fruits and vegetables and almost all junk food. As a teen it began to catch up with me and I became overweight. It was during middle school that I particularly struggled with this weight. I felt fat, ugly, alone and unloved all throughout middle school (for reasons both at home and at school) and I used to binge on whole rolls of cookie dough and bars of chocolate everyday because it made me feel better (temporarily). Finally, I decided to change things and I began exercising hard everyday and eating less and less. By the time I reached high school I became so obsessed with being thin and terrified of eating those foods that had made me overweight before that I became anorexic. It got so bad that between middle school and high school I went from 180 pounds to 91 pounds, and I had also grown taller in that time (from about 5'1 to 5'6). I needed to get help.
For two years I worked on getting back to a normal weight and gaining a normal relationship with food. It was hard, but finally I did. I ate and exercised moderately and was finally happy with myself - not overweight or underweight anymore, just normal. I went back to high school and graduated well both socially and academically.
It wasn't until just recently that my binge eating problem has come back, almost as bad as it was in middle school. It started on a cruise (haha in the all-you-can-eat section) and continued the next few months. I went from 125 (a weight I was comfortable at and my doctor said was healthy for me) to 155 pounds in just 3 months and I'm 5'6, 17 years old, with kinda a small frame. I realize its not nearly as bad as it was in middle school but I'm shocked at how quickly I've gained 30 pounds and worry that I'll just keep bingeing until it's much worse. I would really appreciate any help or advice you could give me to help me fight my bingeing problem and get back down to my healthy weight in a safe, quick (if possible haha) way.