Finding Purpose

Reading an article about vets finding a way out of post-war depression, anxiety, and PTSD, I got to thinking about disregulated eaters’ fanatic absorption in food and weight obsessions and how they would benefit from finding a greater purpose in order to be done with that obsession. You don’t want your tombstone to read, “Spent a lifetime struggling to eat ‘normally’ and lose weight,” do you? Believe me, I understand the pain of compulsive eating and being or feeling overweight. But it cannot remain the be all and end all of life as some of you have made it. Although I encourage you to read my books and blogs and join my Food and Feelings message board, I’d rather see you out there doing things you’re passionate about which gives you a sense of satisfaction, belonging, and a focus greater than yourselves.  There’s something highly unhealthy and excessively self-absorbing about spending much of your life thinking and talking about your food and weight "problems." I know; I did it for decades. Fact is, no one but other disregulated eaters are all that interested in the subject—what you ate or didn’t eat or how much weight you lost. C’mon. Isn’t it time to change your tune? In the article I read, vets too felt lost and purposeless and were self-absorbed with the horrors they’d witnessed—until they became engaged in community service projects. I’m not comparing your lives to theirs, but many of you as well are over-focus...
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