So helpful! Thank you. This is just the information I've needed. I relate to so much of what you share. On a related note, indicating interest in the next retreat (after October). I'm unable to go to the next one but in general, I'd be so down for that! Hope it goes great :)
I'm 24 and have had binge eating disorder / emotional eating since I was 13 years old. ESPECIALLY WITH SUGAR LIKE YOU SAID 😢. Last year I went from 69 kg to 82 kg in less than 4 months. My goal is to heal this year my trauma based eating obsession ... I know I will succeed
I started healthy keto 5 months ago & have lost 15.5kg/34lbs so far. I'm eating one meal a day & intermittent fasting (20hr fast/4hr eating window 12pm-4pm) very low carb. I feel soooo much better than I did when I started, physically & mentally. I'm continuing for this year to be my healthiest physical self. Dr Eric Berg's channel is excellent to learn about ketogenic diet
I just listened to "Flour Power" - a documentary on the 19th century flour business. They milled the flour so finely that the people started to have digestion issues. The mills regrouped and added some of the bran back in due to the public backlash. I use sprouted whole grain bread, and nuts, and Panela unrefined sugar. I am not a fan of Keto, but am of intermittent fasting. I start eating around noon. So, when one talks about flour, and sugar, one has to be specific about how it is processed...or not. Whole foods are best, and Medjool Dates will take away any sweet craving (some dates are better than others - pun intended). And, satisfy! I think rather than eliminating foods, that a better idea is swapping out "favorite" foods for more healthful ones. There is a reason that one craves certain foods, and sometimes it is lacking nutrients.
I was bullied as a child for my weight, for my looks in general and was painfully shy. From around age of 12 I started hating my body. I’m now 33 years old and I am finally a healthy weight but my brain hasn’t caught up. I still struggle with my body and self image. When I’m sad or feel rejected I get the urge to binge. It’s very hard to recover but I’m trying. Thank you for the video ❤
You are in the right place. Keep up the great work and don't be discouraged by trauma-driven thinking. Healing is possible and you are still young to make it! Nika@TeamFairy
It was not our fault that food and pets were our only friends when we were young. It has taken me a long time to accept that is was not my fault. Hugs to you.😊
Watching this video is so crazy! I’ve struggled with weight all my life. At my heaviest I was 320lbs when I had gastric bypass at 22. I got down to my lowest at the time of 195, then 187 after some skin removal surgeries. I started drinking and petting after that trying to embrace my new body I thought I was happy with. But I wasn’t. I was still unhappy and continuing the same patterns. I climbed back to about 220lbs at the end of an abusive relationship. Carried in the same patterns after I gave him the boot (go me) until I met my now partner at the end of 2019. He’s everything I wish every woman could get in a man. We quarantined together we ate and enjoyed life, I got fluffy in 2020. 2021 hit and the lockdown was much harder. I had a lot of time to think and reflect in that time. Something in my head made a switch and this program you’re talking about, Anna, is exactly why I did intuitively if that makes sense? I finally found peace in my life, which brought back my mental clarity and so went the dysregulation. In 2022 I was my lowest weight of 172lbs. I was happy, I was healthy. My body was nowhere near perfect but I was in so much peace with myself it didn’t matter and it showed. I got pregnant summer ‘22. My pregnancy was beautiful, and easy. Birth was such a positive experience for me, but the PPD creeped in not long after I had my daughter. The last year has been a rollercoaster. Breastfeeding was more difficult than I ever imagined it would be. The loneliness of motherhood didn’t help and I had other outside stressors that contributed greatly to my depression. I slipped back into old eating habits and man they’re hard to break. After I gave birth I was 208lbs. At my heaviest post partum I was 249. I had to make time to find myself again to get back to this program of eating, because it goddamn works. I’m down 15lbs already from my heaviest in the last 2 months. Thanks for reading my novel. It just was a lightbulb moment and it’s cool to know what I did is actually a ‘thing’
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We know you can do it because you did it! Stay strong and focused. We're all rooting for you! Nika@TeamFairy
So glad this is being discussed. My little self was abused by a belt or (dad) his hand if I didn’t eat what was placed before me. It taught me everything I needed to know about my body; and myself. Unworthy, untrustworthy, unloveable.
@@CrappyChildhoodFairy Thanks for everyone’s support! On a victory aside being a young child, I learned to outwit my food abusers by watching, waiting for the opportunity to scrape all that awful food behind the radiator. By the time we were preparing to move; and my mother was cleaning the apartment, so much dead, dried, piles of food accumulated over the years, had to be swept and swept. Couldn’t throw in trash being a child at that time, for that would have been the first place they’d look, or my siblings would have seen it and told on me. My mother couldn’t cook decent meals to save her soul. I was constantly sick 🤢 due to her improper cooking and the stress took a toll on my mental, physical health. I had a love hate relationship with food. I did have an eating disorder: Bulimia
I am so glad you addressed how eating what is right for you affects EVERYTHING in your life. I didn't check out Brightline but it sounds like healthy keto. This makes perfect sense for people prone to high cortisol (stress leads to demand for quick energy that needs insulin to bring back down leads to craving replacement quick energy=Rollercoaster). A tool that will help you use ketones, in place of sugars and avoid this rollercoaster and the pain of making the switch, is a book by Dr. Mindy Pelz titled Fast Like a Girl. Not only teaches about healthy keto but also how to work WITH your hormones, even if you are postmenopausal. Has great recipes, too! Hope this helps. Keep taking care of you.
Anna thank you so very much for sharing about BLE. I have begun BLE boot camp 2.0,2024. I am so hopeful. The Daily Practice has brought me to this place of healing so I am ready to release the 100 lbs that have been dragging me down mentally and physically for years. Happy, Healthy and Hopeful New Year to you Anna and to Susan Peirce Thompson!
Happy New Year, Anna! Thank you very much for your work. It is even funny that basically any topic you talk about, I can relate so much . Alcohol has never been my drug of choice, but I noticed a long time ago that I get triggered by simple sugars and pastry, and once I bite a piece, I will not stop until it is all gone. I call myself a sugarholic, and I truly believe there are very similar biochemical reactions in both of these addictions.
Happy new year! I’ve struggled with weight my entire life. Up to almost 200 pounds (at 4’10, that’s wayyyy too much) to 95…and back up and down again. It’s maddening!!
Thank you so much . I have been addicted to these substances since I was a little girl and when I'm clean from them I'm catapulted out of the trauma it's amazing. I find food addicts anonymous very helpful because they stay away from sugar flour and wheat and it's free it's a 12-step program they really get into naming all the different kinds of sugar just wanted to share that
This resonated for me! I've been off protein and vege style keto for all of December (eating christmas pies, boozing, cake, all of it!). I am a mess! You've inspired me to head back to my clean-living keto ways :D
I started restricting carbs for health reasons and once I turned off the flour and sugar, I quit craving it after a few wks! I was eating close to keto and started keto eventually. Now I eat whwt is considered ‘dirty’ keto eating a few things like rice crackers or 4 carb tortillas, but no breads, pastas, other rice and mostly no potatoes. I can’t tell you how much better I feel, more energetic etc and lost weight, joints feel better and I can look in the mirror without disliking myself.
Thank you for bringing to light the connection between PTSD and overeating. I read the book when it came out and found it almost identical to 12 groups for food addicts, such as FA and Greysheeter. You can take a free online quiz on any of the FREE 12-step websites. And 12-step programs only suggest a contribution. If I remember correctly, Susan Pierce discusses that she was a member of FA. Her work piggybacks off the work and food programs of many 12-step programs for food. I promptly returned the book and stayed with the FA 12-step programs. I have found that one does need to put down the food to deal with any issues impacting the quality of their life. A good therapist is great, but the food must be down first. Additional resources for the psychology part, like Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families, are also good resources for those who do have the luxury of affording a therapist. Good luck, and do your research!
Oh wow!! Right before watching, after a day of eating "what I was supposed to" with perfect macros..... the cravings for ice cream just took me over and grabbed my oldest closest friend Little Debbie. I want to dance. I want to run. I want to walk around a musuem with my goddaughter. I cannot keep being this weight-- my energy is low and my joints increasingly hurt. Thank you for this video.
there are sugar free/keto icecream & chocolate (Denada, Well Naturally) that I have on hand if I need a 'sweet' but I'm sticking with my keto journey as I feel so good after 5months on it
I read the book when it came out and found it almost identical to 12 groups for food addicts, such as FA and Greysheeter. You can take a free online quiz on any of the FREE 12-step websites. And 12-step programs only suggest a contribution. If I remember correctly, Susan Pierce discusses that she was a member of FA. Her work piggybacks off the work and food programs of many 12-step programs for food. I promptly returned the book and stayed with the FA 12-step programs. I have found that one does need to put down the food to deal with any issues impacting the quality of their life. A good therapist is great, but the food must be down first. Additional resources for the psychology part, like Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families, are also good resources for those who do have the luxury of affording a therapist. Good luck, and do your research!
I was shamed by my parents and my relatives throughout my childhood and developed body images issues. As a teenager, I would binge on all sorts of crap to cope with everything, and before I realised it, food became an emotional support system. This dependency on food brought about weight gain and more self-hatred because of the way I looked. The cherry on the cake is casual remarks on my appearance by people. However, over the course of 2023, someone came into my life and introduced me to veganism. I decided to give it a try and I must say, plant-based eating has been a game-changer for me. Part of the reason is because most of your cravings (if you are a non vegetarian) would be meat-based fast food like burgers, pizzas and hot dogs. Thankfully, I did not have to deal with sugar sensitivity due to not having had enough of it in my childhood. I am in the best shape of my life now with a long way to go. There are days when I relapse back into my eating patterns but it doesn't last too long because somewhere down the line I stopped liking unhealthy food. I remind myself of the guilt and shame that floods me after having it and question myself whether I want to deal with it again or not. As someone who lives in a dysregulated state, I'm constantly trying to minimize the sources of dysregulation like social media and junk binge. It works for me. I am so grateful to you Anna for creating this space for cptsd survivors to heal themselves and seek comfort in knowing that we are not alone in this.
Oh my gosh I’m the same. It’s all about the sugar. Chips can be on the table or savory snacks and I don’t like that as much. I lost over 100lbs, but due to stressors I’ve gained some back. It’s the symptoms during stress. I’m trying to get back on track but I would never guess cptsd and food cravings are linked! Thank you for this valuable information.
I’m not going to join a specific diet but I have worked out one that works for me, and along with a hell of a lot of exercise, I’ve dropped 50 pounds in 4 months. But the one thing that really, really pisses me off are the people who get their self-esteem by forcing their goddamn food on everyone else. Getting those guilt-inducing big eyes when you repeatedly say no that leaves you taking their food just get them off your back, or someone who repeatedly asks you if they can get you something after you’ve said no, over and over again. Or the worst… the wife who takes it personally that you don’t want to eat her cooking anymore because her sensitivities aren’t your yours and she takes your need for more specific food choices as a rejection of her personally.
Going to try again on BLE. Because WHEN I am doing it, the food chatter is gone. The obsession is gone. I feel free and happy. I’m a 10++ on the scale btw.
I was Obese my entire life, until I made active changes when i was 28, which included nutritional changes and fasting. There isn't a time in my life I remember being "Thin." From at least age 4. Definitely age 6. I was the fat kid, while my younger brother was thin. It was always a comparison, and I was always told I was "eating too much."| My mother would also buy my brother snakes/candy because she would claim I was eating too much or something. She would also give it to him in front of me to spite me. I remember coming home from another awful day at school(thanks to mom and her crazy rules), and going through the garage door with my brother and mom just standing there with a huge bag of a bunch of candy for my brother and gave it to him right there. My mother was always making food with carbs. Bagels for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, pasta meals for dinner. My parents also touted being the best parents because "they never bought snacks" so I was neglected that way too.. At one point, when I was around 11-13, because Iwas starting to work out and I was hitting puberty..... my mother blamed me for eating too much, even though she was `ALWAYS awful with shopping(I would always say our fridge was always full with nothing.... Literally nothing to eat in our house, just sauces, condiments, etc, etc, and she FORCED my father to put a padlock on the fridge, because "I was eating too much." Severe neglect... Let alone the fact that my childhood "friends" saw it and I was made fun of it until I was in HS.` But yet... They believe they were "Good parents."` The reason I was Obese was because my "Cortisol"(Stress) Levels were constantly high, and "Stress" stops weight loss as Stress is a body signal tied to hunger, thus when you're hungry stress goes up, while also trying to stop weight loss so the body doesn't die.` When I learned all this it made so much sense for my situation. I don't think there has been a time in my life where i wasn't stressed. Literally all day every day, and if I can get a few moments of peace in my life, then that's a rarity and a pleasure. My entire life was this way. I hate and resent those 2 who claim to be "my parents."
My health insurance paid for my Omada weight loss program. But I stopped doing it because it was royally p***ing me off. Seriously. I was getting ENRAGED. It was very strange and I had no idea what set me off like that. It looks like it was the CPTSD. But seriously… food is the only friend and comforter I can trust.
Happy New Year, Fairy! Several years ago I learned that sugar lit up the same neural pathways in the brain as cocaine. Another tidbit I learned was that sugar & alcohol have a similar molecular structure. This helped me to almost completely exclude them from my diet. My A1C is below average and my blood sugar returns to normal quickly after a meal of low carb foods.
I'm not overweight because I workout six mornings a week, but I have the exact cookie thing (ie sugar) you described. I've gotten off sugar for months at a time, but it's an all or nothing thing so inevitably I go back to sugar. I try to not eat it as many days of the week as possible but when it's in front of me, all bets are off.
I truly believe that I had an eating disorder as a young child. I didn't like to eat meals. I was forced to eat and I would throw it up on my plate. I was made to sit at the dinner table until I ate everything on my plate. I gagged and threw it up. No dessert for me. When I was finally feeling hungry I would eat cake mix or binge on pop tarts. Very strange. I was about 7 years old and my parents were bickering and arguing a lot and my older brother was tormenting me. The boy next door tried to molest me. Nobody paid attention to me and what was going on. I also had insomnia during this time. It was absolutely horrible.
I definitely crave carbs/processed sugar and once I get started it is really hard for me to stop. I eat to calm down because I am naturally really anxious/energetic and the more stressed i am, the more I eat. I've tried mindful eating but it doesn't work for me because I get impatient and then just devour the food. I am not overweight but I exercise all the time and hardly ever sit still. I want to stop overeating junk though because it is not healthy.
Hi miss Anna, my parents are the kind of people that fawn a lot, and i need some help to stop them from doing it. Do you have any advice or suggestion that i should do as their child to help them overcome their fawning behavior? because i feel like they're not aware of this.
I tried this in college, but it didn't work. I felt bad/empty, so I would pig out. Afterwards I felt bad/overfull. The bad feeling didn't change, only the way my stomach did. So I stopped.
I noticed when I’m stressed I put on weight but I’m not eating anything different but a bit more then when I’m not I loose weight without trying. I think it’s got to do with cortisol and that it puts weight on…
I am trying to lose weight and really want to learn more about intermittent fasting. Are there any experts here who would like to help me get on a regular plan? I’m 46, suffer from childhood trauma and am about 60lbs overweight. I am trying to start some gentle yoga at home. I have fibromyalgia and what Drs think may be rheumatoid arthritis. I used to walk daily and was in the best shape of my life about 3-4 years ago. Then we moved into a dangerous neighborhood in the Bay Area stopped walking and the weight came on…
It’s funny, but I came to this exact same realization independently a few years ago. It’s perplexing to me, though, how the few people I’ve told about my discovery for myself has been met with skepticism, gaslighting and downright refusal complete with links to scientific articles. 🤦♀️ (Yes. Science is researched, tested and confirmed facts. But it’s not always _complete_ when there’s more to be studied and the ”average” doesn’t always point out the outliers.) People get so mad when others discover something that works for them when it’s not what they themselves have been immersed in. 🙄
You described me to a "T" today, even the cookie story. I always wondered why I was so different than everyone else. It can be so lonely and isolating. I love your channel and will definitely try a change in diet to see if it helps...
I’m going to gloat here 😂happy new year 🎉❤I only eat once a day between 5-7. First I stopped eating breakfast, then I shortened my “ feeding” window. It was 1,5 years ago. I’m reversing my aging process and never felt better and healthier in my life!
~YAY!!!~Good for you!!!~I do 1 meal a day, sometimes 2, and i used to do 5 days fasts every season, but im trying to change it to 3 days fasts every month~☆~Happy New Year to you, too!!!~☆~
@@mikewilkins2030 ~OMAD gives the body a chance to clean & repair, and stops the up & down glucose levels, among many other healthy things~Eating more fats is good for the brain, too~Ive never counted calories, and have always eaten fats, and always been slim~Just focusing on healthy, whole foods has worked well for me~
@@mikewilkins2030 no need to count calories😊 I’m off all grains, ( occasional millet) beans and only eat fermented fruit ( from my own non-dairy kefir. I also only use xylitol ( fermented sugar alcohol) from birch juice as my sweetener in green matcha tea 😊 I make sure I get to go outside and simply walk in nature every day!
Stop blaming women for taking wrong decision. Men should take accountability for their actions. Hidden lies. If all men are narcissist, that doesn't mean women need to heal themselves
Holy Cow...so much TRUTH Telling... You didn't get these conclusions from a book...somehow you walked these things out...YIKES...this whole thing is so disarming and uncomfortable...it's the realization that one has truly been screwed with and not the better for it...GEEZE LOUISE!! One has to certainly be desperate for the truth to continue listening...ANYHOO...
You are hitting the nail on the head! Thank you for your consistent accountability and a gently conveying truth with love.🙏🏽✨
I eat keto which is high fat and low carb. I lost 60 pounds and have kept it off for over 2 years. I feel so much better and healthier.
she is basically talking about keto and intermittent fasting
So helpful! Thank you. This is just the information I've needed. I relate to so much of what you share. On a related note, indicating interest in the next retreat (after October). I'm unable to go to the next one but in general, I'd be so down for that! Hope it goes great :)
I'm 24 and have had binge eating disorder / emotional eating since I was 13 years old. ESPECIALLY WITH SUGAR LIKE YOU SAID 😢. Last year I went from 69 kg to 82 kg in less than 4 months. My goal is to heal this year my trauma based eating obsession ... I know I will succeed
You got this! -Calista@TeamFairy
Very timely. Just left the gym. I WILL gain control of my stress & mindless overeating!
I started healthy keto 5 months ago & have lost 15.5kg/34lbs so far. I'm eating one meal a day & intermittent fasting (20hr fast/4hr eating window 12pm-4pm) very low carb. I feel soooo much better than I did when I started, physically & mentally. I'm continuing for this year to be my healthiest physical self. Dr Eric Berg's channel is excellent to learn about ketogenic diet
I just listened to "Flour Power" - a documentary on the 19th century flour business. They milled the flour so finely that the people started to have digestion issues. The mills regrouped and added some of the bran back in due to the public backlash. I use sprouted whole grain bread, and nuts, and Panela unrefined sugar. I am not a fan of Keto, but am of intermittent fasting. I start eating around noon. So, when one talks about flour, and sugar, one has to be specific about how it is processed...or not. Whole foods are best, and Medjool Dates will take away any sweet craving (some dates are better than others - pun intended). And, satisfy!
I think rather than eliminating foods, that a better idea is swapping out "favorite" foods for more healthful ones. There is a reason that one craves certain foods, and sometimes it is lacking nutrients.
I was bullied as a child for my weight, for my looks in general and was painfully shy. From around age of 12 I started hating my body. I’m now 33 years old and I am finally a healthy weight but my brain hasn’t caught up. I still struggle with my body and self image. When I’m sad or feel rejected I get the urge to binge. It’s very hard to recover but I’m trying. Thank you for the video ❤
You are in the right place. Keep up the great work and don't be discouraged by trauma-driven thinking. Healing is possible and you are still young to make it!
Nika@TeamFairy
When I was a child my only happy times were when I was eating something I liked/ loved 👍👍
It was not our fault that food and pets were our only friends when we were young. It has taken me a long time to accept that is was not my fault. Hugs to you.😊
❤ yep
Watching this video is so crazy! I’ve struggled with weight all my life. At my heaviest I was 320lbs when I had gastric bypass at 22. I got down to my lowest at the time of 195, then 187 after some skin removal surgeries. I started drinking and petting after that trying to embrace my new body I thought I was happy with. But I wasn’t. I was still unhappy and continuing the same patterns. I climbed back to about 220lbs at the end of an abusive relationship. Carried in the same patterns after I gave him the boot (go me) until I met my now partner at the end of 2019. He’s everything I wish every woman could get in a man. We quarantined together we ate and enjoyed life, I got fluffy in 2020. 2021 hit and the lockdown was much harder. I had a lot of time to think and reflect in that time. Something in my head made a switch and this program you’re talking about, Anna, is exactly why I did intuitively if that makes sense? I finally found peace in my life, which brought back my mental clarity and so went the dysregulation. In 2022 I was my lowest weight of 172lbs. I was happy, I was healthy. My body was nowhere near perfect but I was in so much peace with myself it didn’t matter and it showed.
I got pregnant summer ‘22. My pregnancy was beautiful, and easy. Birth was such a positive experience for me, but the PPD creeped in not long after I had my daughter. The last year has been a rollercoaster. Breastfeeding was more difficult than I ever imagined it would be. The loneliness of motherhood didn’t help and I had other outside stressors that contributed greatly to my depression. I slipped back into old eating habits and man they’re hard to break. After I gave birth I was 208lbs. At my heaviest post partum I was 249. I had to make time to find myself again to get back to this program of eating, because it goddamn works. I’m down 15lbs already from my heaviest in the last 2 months.
Thanks for reading my novel. It just was a lightbulb moment and it’s cool to know what I did is actually a ‘thing’
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We know you can do it because you did it! Stay strong and focused. We're all rooting for you!
Nika@TeamFairy
When you said that, “it’s in my bones.” I felt that for sure. Same
Glad you're here :) -Calista@TeamFairy
So glad this is being discussed. My little self was abused by a belt or (dad) his hand if I didn’t eat what was placed before me. It taught me everything I needed to know about my body; and myself. Unworthy, untrustworthy, unloveable.
Holy crap, it's like they were trying to inspire an eating disorder. Hang in there, you're amazing!!
That sounds hard. You are in the right place now.
Nika@TeamFairy
@@CrappyChildhoodFairy
Thanks for everyone’s support! On a victory aside being a young child, I learned to outwit my food abusers by watching, waiting for the opportunity to scrape all that awful food behind the radiator. By the time we were preparing to move; and my mother was cleaning the apartment, so much dead, dried, piles of food accumulated over the years, had to be swept and swept. Couldn’t throw in trash being a child at that time, for that would have been the first place they’d look, or my siblings would have seen it and told on me. My mother couldn’t cook decent meals to save her soul. I was constantly sick 🤢 due to her improper cooking and the stress took a toll on my mental, physical health. I had a love hate relationship with food. I did have an eating disorder: Bulimia
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I am so glad you addressed how eating what is right for you affects EVERYTHING in your life. I didn't check out Brightline but it sounds like healthy keto. This makes perfect sense for people prone to high cortisol (stress leads to demand for quick energy that needs insulin to bring back down leads to craving replacement quick energy=Rollercoaster). A tool that will help you use ketones, in place of sugars and avoid this rollercoaster and the pain of making the switch, is a book by Dr. Mindy Pelz titled Fast Like a Girl. Not only teaches about healthy keto but also how to work WITH your hormones, even if you are postmenopausal. Has great recipes, too! Hope this helps. Keep taking care of you.
Mindy is great along with Dr Eric Berg they are my go to for keto info
If I go back to my diabetic diet, I'll be doing very well. My life is very up and down right now, I'll make it through.
Anna thank you so very much for sharing about BLE. I have begun BLE boot camp 2.0,2024. I am so hopeful. The Daily Practice has brought me to this place of healing so I am ready to release the 100 lbs that have been dragging me down mentally and physically for years. Happy, Healthy and Hopeful New Year to you Anna and to Susan Peirce Thompson!
Happy New Year, Anna! Thank you very much for your work. It is even funny that basically any topic you talk about, I can relate so much . Alcohol has never been my drug of choice, but I noticed a long time ago that I get triggered by simple sugars and pastry, and once I bite a piece, I will not stop until it is all gone. I call myself a sugarholic, and I truly believe there are very similar biochemical reactions in both of these addictions.
It feels so much better to see how you’ve healed and know there’s hope
You’re a wonderful person .❤
Happy new year! I’ve struggled with weight my entire life. Up to almost 200 pounds (at 4’10, that’s wayyyy too much) to 95…and back up and down again. It’s maddening!!
I’m a fan of BLE. And you!
Thank you for discussing this! ❤😊
Thank you so much . I have been addicted to these substances since I was a little girl and when I'm clean from them I'm catapulted out of the trauma it's amazing. I find food addicts anonymous very helpful because they stay away from sugar flour and wheat and it's free it's a 12-step program they really get into naming all the different kinds of sugar just wanted to share that
This resonated for me! I've been off protein and vege style keto for all of December (eating christmas pies, boozing, cake, all of it!). I am a mess! You've inspired me to head back to my clean-living keto ways :D
Alot of people don't want to see trauma as a cause of obesity. Thanks as always Anna❤
Thanks lady, and Happy New Year!
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I started restricting carbs for health reasons and once I turned off the flour and sugar, I quit craving it after a few wks! I was eating close to keto and started keto eventually. Now I eat whwt is considered ‘dirty’ keto eating a few things like rice crackers or 4 carb tortillas, but no breads, pastas, other rice and mostly no potatoes. I can’t tell you how much better I feel, more energetic etc and lost weight, joints feel better and I can look in the mirror without disliking myself.
Terrific subject! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Try almond flour.. it's protein. I don't have heavy cravings when I use that Instead.
Still struggling with my weight after 53 years.... I have lost about 45-50 pounds through Weight Watchers....
Happy New Year Anna 🎉
Thank you for bringing to light the connection between PTSD and overeating. I read the book when it came out and found it almost identical to 12 groups for food addicts, such as FA and Greysheeter. You can take a free online quiz on any of the FREE 12-step websites. And 12-step programs only suggest a contribution. If I remember correctly, Susan Pierce discusses that she was a member of FA. Her work piggybacks off the work and food programs of many 12-step programs for food. I promptly returned the book and stayed with the FA 12-step programs. I have found that one does need to put down the food to deal with any issues impacting the quality of their life. A good therapist is great, but the food must be down first. Additional resources for the psychology part, like Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families, are also good resources for those who do have the luxury of affording a therapist. Good luck, and do your research!
Not only for childhood cptsd but beneficial for women in general. Your hormones will thank you! 😊
Oh wow!! Right before watching, after a day of eating "what I was supposed to" with perfect macros..... the cravings for ice cream just took me over and grabbed my oldest closest friend Little Debbie.
I want to dance. I want to run. I want to walk around a musuem with my goddaughter. I cannot keep being this weight-- my energy is low and my joints increasingly hurt. Thank you for this video.
there are sugar free/keto icecream & chocolate (Denada, Well Naturally) that I have on hand if I need a 'sweet' but I'm sticking with my keto journey as I feel so good after 5months on it
Thank you for this timely vlog happy new year here’s to a happier calmer 2024 ❤️💗🌻
Happy New Year!
Nika@TeamFairy
Thank you for this information, it’s validation for me!
I like your videos and how you do them! Thank you for doing them for us.❤
Thank you for being a part of our community! -Calista@TeamFairy
I read the book when it came out and found it almost identical to 12 groups for food addicts, such as FA and Greysheeter. You can take a free online quiz on any of the FREE 12-step websites. And 12-step programs only suggest a contribution. If I remember correctly, Susan Pierce discusses that she was a member of FA. Her work piggybacks off the work and food programs of many 12-step programs for food. I promptly returned the book and stayed with the FA 12-step programs. I have found that one does need to put down the food to deal with any issues impacting the quality of their life. A good therapist is great, but the food must be down first. Additional resources for the psychology part, like Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families, are also good resources for those who do have the luxury of affording a therapist. Good luck, and do your research!
I was shamed by my parents and my relatives throughout my childhood and developed body images issues. As a teenager, I would binge on all sorts of crap to cope with everything, and before I realised it, food became an emotional support system. This dependency on food brought about weight gain and more self-hatred because of the way I looked. The cherry on the cake is casual remarks on my appearance by people. However, over the course of 2023, someone came into my life and introduced me to veganism. I decided to give it a try and I must say, plant-based eating has been a game-changer for me. Part of the reason is because most of your cravings (if you are a non vegetarian) would be meat-based fast food like burgers, pizzas and hot dogs. Thankfully, I did not have to deal with sugar sensitivity due to not having had enough of it in my childhood. I am in the best shape of my life now with a long way to go. There are days when I relapse back into my eating patterns but it doesn't last too long because somewhere down the line I stopped liking unhealthy food. I remind myself of the guilt and shame that floods me after having it and question myself whether I want to deal with it again or not. As someone who lives in a dysregulated state, I'm constantly trying to minimize the sources of dysregulation like social media and junk binge. It works for me. I am so grateful to you Anna for creating this space for cptsd survivors to heal themselves and seek comfort in knowing that we are not alone in this.
Great job! Keep it up! Thank you for being a part of our community here.
Nika@TeamFairy
Oh my gosh I’m the same. It’s all about the sugar. Chips can be on the table or savory snacks and I don’t like that as much. I lost over 100lbs, but due to stressors I’ve gained some back. It’s the symptoms during stress. I’m trying to get back on track but I would never guess cptsd and food cravings are linked! Thank you for this valuable information.
Glad it was helpful!
Nika@TeamFairy
Thank you so much for all you share
Thank you for being a part of our community :) -Calista@TeamFairy
I appreciate you! ✨
I’m not going to join a specific diet but I have worked out one that works for me, and along with a hell of a lot of exercise, I’ve dropped 50 pounds in 4 months. But the one thing that really, really pisses me off are the people who get their self-esteem by forcing their goddamn food on everyone else. Getting those guilt-inducing big eyes when you repeatedly say no that leaves you taking their food just get them off your back, or someone who repeatedly asks you if they can get you something after you’ve said no, over and over again. Or the worst… the wife who takes it personally that you don’t want to eat her cooking anymore because her sensitivities aren’t your yours and she takes your need for more specific food choices as a rejection of her personally.
Only after working Nar-Anon 12 steps was I able to make peace with my stomach. I eat for health no finally.
Thank you for what you say.
"in my bones," "glass wall" Wow!!!❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗
Going to try again on BLE. Because WHEN I am doing it, the food chatter is gone. The obsession is gone. I feel free and happy. I’m a 10++ on the scale btw.
Just joined OA.. May use bright line for my eating plan... I scored q 10 on the quiz.
I scored a 10!! 😢 Time to dive in and learn about eating Bright!
I was Obese my entire life, until I made active changes when i was 28, which included nutritional changes and fasting. There isn't a time in my life I remember being "Thin." From at least age 4. Definitely age 6.
I was the fat kid, while my younger brother was thin. It was always a comparison, and I was always told I was "eating too much."| My mother would also buy my brother snakes/candy because she would claim I was eating too much or something. She would also give it to him in front of me to spite me.
I remember coming home from another awful day at school(thanks to mom and her crazy rules), and going through the garage door with my brother and mom just standing there with a huge bag of a bunch of candy for my brother and gave it to him right there.
My mother was always making food with carbs. Bagels for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, pasta meals for dinner.
My parents also touted being the best parents because "they never bought snacks" so I was neglected that way too.. At one point, when I was around 11-13, because Iwas starting to work out and I was hitting puberty..... my mother blamed me for eating too much, even though she was `ALWAYS awful with shopping(I would always say our fridge was always full with nothing.... Literally nothing to eat in our house, just sauces, condiments, etc, etc, and she FORCED my father to put a padlock on the fridge, because "I was eating too much."
Severe neglect... Let alone the fact that my childhood "friends" saw it and I was made fun of it until I was in HS.`
But yet... They believe they were "Good parents."`
The reason I was Obese was because my "Cortisol"(Stress) Levels were constantly high, and "Stress" stops weight loss as Stress is a body signal tied to hunger, thus when you're hungry stress goes up, while also trying to stop weight loss so the body doesn't die.` When I learned all this it made so much sense for my situation.
I don't think there has been a time in my life where i wasn't stressed. Literally all day every day, and if I can get a few moments of peace in my life, then that's a rarity and a pleasure. My entire life was this way.
I hate and resent those 2 who claim to be "my parents."
Same here, they set us up to fail and we have been dealing with the trauma and fallout ever since.
Sending you a huge hug.
My health insurance paid for my Omada weight loss program. But I stopped doing it because it was royally p***ing me off. Seriously. I was getting ENRAGED. It was very strange and I had no idea what set me off like that. It looks like it was the CPTSD. But seriously… food is the only friend and comforter I can trust.
You are so right that this does not get talked about and in todays worlc that wants everyone to be accepted as they are it is being lost 😢
Happy New Year, Fairy! Several years ago I learned that sugar lit up the same neural pathways in the brain as cocaine. Another tidbit I learned was that sugar & alcohol have a similar molecular structure. This helped me to almost completely exclude them from my diet. My A1C is below average and my blood sugar returns to normal quickly after a meal of low carb foods.
Yes! It's like we have a magic wand on our health, if only we will use it!
I can relate to a lot of this....
Chronic disease due to birth defect and CPTSD but outliving life expectations mostly due to a food pattern is compatible with the DASH diet.
I'm not overweight because I workout six mornings a week, but I have the exact cookie thing (ie sugar) you described. I've gotten off sugar for months at a time, but it's an all or nothing thing so inevitably I go back to sugar. I try to not eat it as many days of the week as possible but when it's in front of me, all bets are off.
I truly believe that I had an eating disorder as a young child. I didn't like to eat meals. I was forced to eat and I would throw it up on my plate. I was made to sit at the dinner table until I ate everything on my plate. I gagged and threw it up. No dessert for me. When I was finally feeling hungry I would eat cake mix or binge on pop tarts. Very strange. I was about 7 years old and my parents were bickering and arguing a lot and my older brother was tormenting me. The boy next door tried to molest me. Nobody paid attention to me and what was going on. I also had insomnia during this time. It was absolutely horrible.
What do you mean about your Bloodwork please?
Haha, the timing is perfect 😄 2024! 🥳
look into Chris Palmer, talks on how diet can affect mental conditions.
I will join you!
I definitely crave carbs/processed sugar and once I get started it is really hard for me to stop. I eat to calm down because I am naturally really anxious/energetic and the more stressed i am, the more I eat. I've tried mindful eating but it doesn't work for me because I get impatient and then just devour the food. I am not overweight but I exercise all the time and hardly ever sit still. I want to stop overeating junk though because it is not healthy.
Hi miss Anna, my parents are the kind of people that fawn a lot, and i need some help to stop them from doing it. Do you have any advice or suggestion that i should do as their child to help them overcome their fawning behavior? because i feel like they're not aware of this.
I tried this in college, but it didn't work. I felt bad/empty, so I would pig out. Afterwards I felt bad/overfull. The bad feeling didn't change, only the way my stomach did. So I stopped.
I noticed when I’m stressed I put on weight but I’m not eating anything different but a bit more then when I’m not I loose weight without trying. I think it’s got to do with cortisol and that it puts weight on…
❤you Anna
I am trying to lose weight and really want to learn more about intermittent fasting. Are there any experts here who would like to help me get on a regular plan? I’m 46, suffer from childhood trauma and am about 60lbs overweight. I am trying to start some gentle yoga at home. I have fibromyalgia and what Drs think may be rheumatoid arthritis. I used to walk daily and was in the best shape of my life about 3-4 years ago. Then we moved into a dangerous neighborhood in the Bay Area stopped walking and the weight came on…
Find the book by Dr Mindy Plez Fast like a Girl. It is a very good book on intermittent fasting.
@@lindaadams1198 thank you very much I’ll do that! ❤️💕
Dr Eric Berg channel as well, he does short concise videos
@@freefree1664 thank you! I’ll check out his channel! I really appreciate it! ❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕
Electrolytes helped me me when I first started IMF.
It’s funny, but I came to this exact same realization independently a few years ago. It’s perplexing to me, though, how the few people I’ve told about my discovery for myself has been met with skepticism, gaslighting and downright refusal complete with links to scientific articles. 🤦♀️ (Yes. Science is researched, tested and confirmed facts. But it’s not always _complete_ when there’s more to be studied and the ”average” doesn’t always point out the outliers.)
People get so mad when others discover something that works for them when it’s not what they themselves have been immersed in. 🙄
How do we know if we have CPTSD?
You may find this quiz helpful: bit.ly/CPTSD-Quiz -Calista@TeamFairy
Pretty sure I will be an 8 or 9 in the sensitivity scale of carbs . .
My only question, --Is it a Keto diet--Mostly meat and leaves?
Keto is high fat, moderate protein and low carb. It really sounds like keto for me. Dr Berg is a great channel about the keto diet
You described me to a "T" today, even the cookie story. I always wondered why I was so different than everyone else. It can be so lonely and isolating. I love your channel and will definitely try a change in diet to see if it helps...
Glad you are here. Good luck on your healing journey!
Nika@TeamFairy
I’m going to gloat here 😂happy new year 🎉❤I only eat once a day between 5-7. First I stopped eating breakfast, then I shortened my “ feeding” window. It was 1,5 years ago. I’m reversing my aging process and never felt better and healthier in my life!
~YAY!!!~Good for you!!!~I do 1 meal a day, sometimes 2, and i used to do 5 days fasts every season, but im trying to change it to 3 days fasts every month~☆~Happy New Year to you, too!!!~☆~
Did you count calories? Omad with eating more calories than needed still will gain weight. Great work tho!
@@mikewilkins2030 ~OMAD gives the body a chance to clean & repair, and stops the up & down glucose levels, among many other healthy things~Eating more fats is good for the brain, too~Ive never counted calories, and have always eaten fats, and always been slim~Just focusing on healthy, whole foods has worked well for me~
Best wishes and happy new year!🎉
@@mikewilkins2030 no need to count calories😊 I’m off all grains, ( occasional millet) beans and only eat fermented fruit ( from my own non-dairy kefir. I also only use xylitol ( fermented sugar alcohol) from birch juice as my sweetener in green matcha tea 😊 I make sure I get to go outside and simply walk in nature every day!
Stop blaming women for taking wrong decision. Men should take accountability for their actions. Hidden lies. If all men are narcissist, that doesn't mean women need to heal themselves
Not all men are narcissists. Some people still need to heal themselves.
Holy Cow...so much TRUTH Telling... You didn't get these conclusions from a book...somehow you walked these things out...YIKES...this whole thing is so disarming and uncomfortable...it's the realization that one has truly been screwed with and not the better for it...GEEZE LOUISE!! One has to certainly be desperate for the truth to continue listening...ANYHOO...
Girl 🤦🏼♀️
What?
What trauma did they visit on the lab rats to reach that conclusion, I wonder. Just curious.
You are looking so pretty, Anna. 🤍