Isn being overweight unhealthy?
This question comes up quite often. In many people, cholesterol levels respond to changes in diet and exercise. The question is: Are you able to diet successfully? In our experience, compulsive eaters respond to any dietary restrictions in the way they have always responded to diets: they conform for awhile and then, they rebel. If however, through demand feeding, a compulsive eater gets to a point where she is using food as a fuel rather than a tranquilizer, the chances are that, in the process, her overall diet has changed a great deal and she is eating a wide variety of foods, none of them in great quantity. If at this point, for health reasons, she thinks that her food choices could use some evaluation, she has several options. She can focus on her matchmaking to see if her choices are truly consonant with what her body seems to crave. She can also begin to experiment with adding and subtracting different foods from her repertoire.
This question comes up quite often. In many people, cholesterol levels respond to changes in diet and exercise. The question is: Are you able to diet successfully? In our experience, compulsive eaters respond to any dietary restrictions in the way they have always responded to diets: they conform for awhile and then, they rebel. If however, through demand feeding, a compulsive eater gets to a point where she is using food as a fuel rather than a tranquilizer, the chances are that, in the process, her overall diet has changed a great deal and she is eating a wide variety of foods, none of them in great quantity. If at this point, for health reasons, she thinks that her food choices could use some evaluation, she has several options. She can focus on her matchmaking to see if her choices are truly consonant with what her body seems to crave. She can also begin to experiment with adding and subtracting different foods from her repertoire. As a no-longer compulsive eater, it is possible to
