IS THE CAKE REALLY THE CULPRIT?
A TALE ABOUT WEIGHT CONTROL
FOR EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS WEEK
Once upon a time there was a little girl called Annie. Little Annie had been conditioned from an early age to eat a cake every time a buzzer sounded. To begin with, the buzzer only sounded once or twice a week. But then her parents got divorced and the buzzer sounded more frequently. She got bullied in school and called Fat Annie, and the buzzer sounded even more. As she got older the buzzer sounded every time she felt bored, lonely, stressed, angry, fed up….. Every time the buzzer sounded, Annie ate a cake. And Annie got fatter and fatter.
People told Annie, go on a diet, lose weight, it’s easy – you just eat less and exercise more. So Annie went on a diet, lost some weight, stopped dieting and put it back on. And more. So she went on another diet. And another, and before long all she could think about was food and dieting and calories and how useless she was.
Annie didn’t know which way to turn. She was yo-yo dieting, bingeing, trying to starve herself one minute, exercising like crazy the next. She tried every fad diet going; she even tried making herself sick after eating too much.
One day she was telling her woeful story to a stranger. “The buzzer sounds nearly all day long and every time it sounds I have to eat a cake. It’s the cakes’ fault – all those calories and fat and sugar, along with me being pathetic and weak-willed of course.”
The stranger looked puzzled. “What would happen, though, if the buzzer stopped sounding?” asked the stranger. “I wouldn’t eat all those cakes……” replied Annie.
Disordered eating is a symptom, not the cause, of weight problems. Come and find the real culprits behind your excess weight or eating disorder so that you can finally start to eat, live and feel like a normal person.
FOR A FREE CONSULTATION ON WEIGHT CONTROL AND EATING DISORDERS
CONTACT ALISON BIRD ON COLCHESTER 01206 548175/ 07947 817464,
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Alison Bird DHP, MAPHP, HBCE is a clinical hypnotherapist/hypnoanalyst with specialist training in the field of weight control and Eating Disorders. She is a registered practitioner with the National Centre for Eating Disorders. If you have an eating disorder or are worried about a family member or friend, please contact Alison Bird for free information and leaflets on help that is available.
EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS WEEK RUNS FROM 25 FEBRUARY TO 2 MARCH 2008
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