Today I'm feeling very sad and frustrated.
To date, I've been attending weekly OA meetings but have not yet "abstained" from overeating. In order to abstain, OA recommends you have an eating plan and stick to it. This is where I'm stumbling. Here's why:
- I have no idea where to start. I've followed so many eating plans and have stuck to none of them. That's the one thing all my attempted eating plans have in common. There's a myriad of books, websites, information, etc, out there. I have no idea where to go or what to do. All I really want to do is eat healthy, but what does that mean? How do you do that?
- I can't cook. Eating plans in the past have failed, in part, because I can't cook. I end up eating the required foods, but in their naked form. If I needed to eat low-fat/high protein, I ate tons of tuna and cottage cheese. This got old after a few weeks.
- I'm scared of restriction. My history of anorexia and my tendency to restrict in the extreme make me very fearful of making a change in my diet. The pattern has always been the same: I start out strong, I start to cut back (a little at a time), before I know it...I'm starving myself again.
So how do you eat healthy but not measure everything that goes into your mouth? I have no idea.
I could cry.
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have you tried sparkpeople.com
the meal plan is highly customizable (like 1 slice of bread could be swapped for any other grain easily) and it has lots of options if you can't cook or don't like to or whatever... like sandwiches and such... and it's simple food you'll have around (turkey, roast beef sandwiches, eggs, cereal etc.)
it really is a great resource and comes with lots of support, and lots of the people on there have battled eating disorders... so there's lots of support teams for that
gl! -R
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