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From:	polyunsaturated (65.130.227.177)
Subject:	Considering "Making Friends with your Food"
Date:	July 30, 2012 at 3:52 am PST

Hello all,

With the promotional discount going on right now, I'm
considering finally buying the DVD series, which I have
wanted for years.

I have been ethically vegan for over 2 years but I still
binge eat and haven't been able to stay raw for long periods
of time-- usually when I refrain from bingeing the best I
can manage is McDougall, low fat cooked food, with too much
fruit to call it that either (but not enough fruit to see
great results).

My problem is, the progress I've made recently has been only
physiologically based reasoning... meaning, the book that
helped me the most was Rational Recovery, a book about
overcoming addiction logically. It basically says
addictions (which I consider bingeing/high fat food to be)
are purely physical, not emotional as many addiction
treatment programs claim. It can cause emotions sure, but
basically they're just a lower brain function, and
attempting to resolve emotional issues in order to get over
an addiction is counterproductive and distracting from the
real goal, which is to simply stop/change the behavior. It
makes sense to me, as the diagnostic definitions of eating
disorders really make no comment regarding emotional
function-- EDs are described in the DSM based purely on
behaviors. It's possible to change those behaviors without
fixing every emotion or past trauma or what have you, and
it's quite probably preferable, as changing those behaviors
is easier than changing all your emotions all of the time.
It makes sense to me, and it worked for me longer than
anything else did. It also kinda ties into The Pleasure
Trap it seems, though it's been much longer since I've read
that.

Anyway, where I'm going with this... I'm hesitant to learn
more information that's going to bring emotions back into
this. The description sounds really promising (like it does
focus on physiology), I just don't want it to be another
therapy session on unresolved childhood issues or something.
That's great if it works for some people but I have no
reason to believe it's what I need. The rest of the
information might still be valuable, but it seems like stuff
I already know. I am mostly looking for SOMETHING that will
help me be able to finally go 80/10/10 for good.

Ah. I'm likely to get it anyway. I'd just like some
reassurance that I'll get some new and useful information
from spending 3/4 of a week's paycheck on some DVDs.

-polyunsaturated fat.

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