05/09/2011 19:44
My Life is Great, but...
We've seen it on TV. Haunts from the past drive people to overeating, and it's by confronting those bugaboos that people find their way to breaking dependence on food. But that doesn't apply to everyone who's overweight.
Sometimes it's the trauma and stresses of right now, not the past, that drive us to bingeing. Boredom, restlessness, unhappiness with the very life we think should be making us happy, stressful job or relationship—all can be factors.
I can remember thinking to myself many times, "I've virtually got it all, everything I imagined would give me a happy life—faithful husband, nice house, great kids, but...
Nothing was ever quite good enough, satisfying enough, accomplished enough. The bad habit of occasional bingeing from my teens became the habitual bingeing of adulthood. I began to wonder what skinny adults did to occupy the same amount of time I spent eating.
They exercised. They had hobbies. They went out and did active family activities. Hmmmmm.
