Help! My brain needs fixing!!

It has been a long hiatus for me! But I am back now I have been going through a wrongful dismissal case with my previous Employers and have been totally consumed by that. I started to binge eat over this fact and decided to seek out professional counseling from an eating disorder specialist. I have only been going for three weeks but feel bloody amazing! Therapy is an amazing tool, I don't know why I didn't seek out professional help for my eating disorder. I have a wonderful support system in Overeaters Anonymous but felt as if I needed more one on one guidance and it is working wonders. Since Ive been seeing my therapist I haven't binged once and its been close to three weeks, I feel so proud of myself and that's a really difficult thing for me to say.

I have also started reading a fantastic book titled "Change your brain, change your body" by Dr Amen, I haven't been able to put it down. It is absolutely amazing how binge eating affects our brain and how harder it becomes each time to stop because it is so ingrained into the old grey matter! Actually through this book I have discovered that I am an Emotional Overeater and impulsive overeater! Yup two for the price of one, what a joy! I have the frontal lobe of the brain that deals with impulse control (hello is that cake calling my name!) Did you know that cake has the same effect as cocaine on the brain! Scary huh! Also if you have focus and judgement problems. Well, hey that sounds just like me, also any deep set memories of that first gooey yummy cookie or cake when you were kid is so deep set into your pleasure receptors, that is why it becomes almost impossible to put down that triple chocolate cake. But, there is hope!

With his book it details how to reverse the damage to your brain, and it is damaged! Especially if you have experimented in hardcore drugs, but he has the reversed the effects of a severely damaged brain and just following his suggestions and steps we can have the life and the body and the healthy brain we all dreamt of. I always just thought about the body I wanted but never the brain I've always wanted! If my brain is sick I will continue to have the same results, which for me is yo yoing with my weight and binge eating. If I heal my brain the binge eating will eventually lessen and even go away all together but I have to train my brain to act and react differently around food and situations that involve food. I did touch on that subject in my book but never realized the entire ramifications of the power from your dodgy grey matter, relating to your expanding waistline!

I have started practicing suggestions in this book and am having great results, that in conjunction with the therapy is a wonderful combination, in fact that is one of the suggestions for my type of brain problem and go figure it's helping. But what I seem to gather from this book is that it takes a lot of work, it is not easy to fill in the gaps in your brain and there are some major gaps the pictures prove it! So, I know that I have a lot of work ahead of me, but I think I'm willing to finally give this thing a go once and for all. What this explains to me is why I failed so many times before and I know it's not my weak will power it's deep set behaviours that are so difficult to break. I didn't know how to break them before, but now I have the knowledge and knowledge is power my friends.

If you have any kind of eating disorder I strongly suggest you give this book a look over, it's life changing and also seek out some form of professional therapy. There are some amazing counsellor's out there :)