Great Site for Compulsive Overeaters or Those Struggling with Food Addiction

I want to tell the world about a wonderful site!!! I am a compulsive overeater, and I just wanted to be able to find a way to reach out and help others in their journey as well. I love to write, and I felt like there was nothing really out there that I could read that related to compulsive overeating. Sure, there are sites that offer great support, but this is a site that I developed where I can blog my entire journey everyday as a compulsive overeater.

Maybe you know someone that struggles with their weight. Maybe you, yourself, struggle with the issue of compulsive overeating. Maybe you are just interested in the subject or don't understand why people use food to "medicate" themselves. This will be a very eye opening journey for people. It will be updated almost daily with entries about my struggles, my accomplishments, and my sorrows. As I try to get to the root of my food addiction, maybe my blog will help others be able to relate and seek out their own healing. Here is my first blog entry for those of you who would like a taste of what my blog will be like. I hope you enjoy it and that you will bookmark my page and visit often. Maybe you know someone that my site might be able to help. This is just the beginning of something big in my life. I want to reach out and help others that struggle with food addiction. So here goes nothing! Enjoy my first blog!

"All of my life, I have been fat. I've never known what it is like to not be self conscious about my weight. The last time I was "thin" was seen by proof of my kindergarten picture. I look at that picture today and I just want to scream at that girl to just please watch what she eats and try to be as active as possible. Then, I spout angry words at her. I tell her how disappointed I am in her. How she let us down by using food to deal with our problems.

Speaking of that issue, I have gone over and over my life and ask myself, "What on earth made you decide to use food as your drug of choice? What terrible event was comforted by food?" I have racked my brain on almost a daily basis wondering why I eat. I know that it is emotional eating, because I see proof of that everyday.

I have dieted and dieted since I was in elementary school. I have lost thousands of pounds over my lifetime, but have yet to find the "cure" to my addiction. I know that I have a problem, I have been able to recognize that since I was a small child, but I cannot seem to stop myself. I have some emotion and I run to the refrigerator.

I refuse to allow myself to go for the quick fix. I will not have surgery and hope that it will solve my problems, because I know it will not. My problem, like most people, lies in food addiction, lack of exercise, and just plain laziness.

Today, I felt just like I had to find some sort of help. I went online and I searched "overeaters rehab". Search results yielded no help at all. Overeaters Anonymous came up, but really, there is not much by way of support or information on this deadly addiction. I immediately felt convicted to do something about that, but how? I don't have a PhD so I cannot counsel people on addiction, especially if I haven't even been able to overcome my own addiction.

So here is where my therapy begins...You are all about to come on a journey with me in self discovery and on the very bumpy road of food addiction. I will journal my thoughts and feelings and how I use food and patterned behavior in hopes of finding the root of my addiction. Through all of this, if I can help one person, I will have succeeded. I always look at people with problems of Bulimia and Anorexia and I just don't get it...So it makes me wonder what people that don't struggle with food addiction think of people like me.

So, hold onto your seats, and get ready to dive into the life of Amy Gayle...Food Addict."

Blog courtesy of www.thecompulsiveovereater.com. Written by Amy Gayle.