I had several metaphorical bruises recently. They include, but are not limited to:
1) Not eating enough
2) refusing food and/or eating smaller portions
3) weighing myself (a lot)
4) counting calories
If you were a certified therapist, and I were a patient who had enough money to pay a certified therapist, you would make me say WHY I chose to do those actions, when I knew they were wrong. Heck, my mom could ask me that for FREE!
Action 1) I chose to not eat enough because I had eaten more the previous day and felt full.
Action 2) I chose to refuse food and/or eating smaller portions because my mind said it wasn’t hungry, despite the protests from my stomach.
Action 3) I chose to weigh myself (a lot) because I wanted to see the numbers drop, my mind telling me I was fat, and I, believing that, weighed myself.
Action 4) I chose to count calories because I wanted to lose weight, because I felt fat and unloved and worthless.
Now the therapist would probably ask me how I would prevent the actions from reoccuring. I would tell this therapist that I could only weigh myself once a day, eat a little more each meal, and not look at the calories on food/packaging.
The therapist would probably now tell me how to address the check. :)
What do you think of my metaphorical therapy session? (and the fact that I keep using metaphors)
Amanda
I think your metaphorical therapist isn’t very good. You’d better ask yourself why you shouldn’t do this. Weight doesn’t solve your life problems, weight only solves your weight problems and weighing a million times or not eating won’t make you happy. From what you said in your last post I can conclude that you don’t have weight problems and if you decide to continue eating less there’s a big chance you end up creating them yourself. You can become stick thin and still feel miserable. Is this what you truly want? I doubt it.
If I were your therapist, I would tell you to look outside and see how beautiful the world is. There’s more to life than calories and scales.
Your metaphorical therapist is awful. And your perception of what therapy is about is completely wrong. I go to therapy and we never really talk about food and weight. There’s more to life than this. Therapy has helped me recover from my ED in so many ways. Try real therapy, you need it.