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welcome....
to night eating...
I hope you find some helpful info in here that's just for your
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thanks so much & be sure to visit them! There's so much information to be found there!
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Many survivors recover fairly well with the help of their family and friends. A few go beyond recovery, however. In their struggle to heal and put their past behind them, they grow and become even better than they
were before. They become transformed in ways they value.
Every transformational
journey is unique, but heroic survivors have two things in common. First, they integrate the traumatic experience into their public identity and make the experience a defining part of their life story.
Second, they talk or
write about it in a way that has an inspiring effect on others.
The transformational
process of recovery from deeply distressing, traumatic experiences takes many months or years and usually proceeds through these phases:
Into the Fire: Reliving the Fears and Memories
- You take the courageous step to relive your traumatic experiences with a friend, a counselor, or a support group of people who have been through similar experiences. Painful memories and feelings get uncorked. You have nightmares. You feel like you're falling into a bottomless well. You find yourself reliving the experience during conversations,
at movies, in the store, almost any place. You wish you never started this.
Taking Control Phase: Wrestling for Control of Your Spirit
- You repeat, relive
and talk about the experience again and again with good listeners. You write about your feelings in a journal. You discover after awhile that you can tell a shorter version, a summary of what happened with
less emotional pain. You feel moments of relief. You sleep and feel better. You notice that there is something freeing from knowing that other people know what you went through and care for you.
- You begin to observe
yourself more than ever before. You face your fears. You question your erroneous beliefs and assumptions. You discover that you aren't as responsible for what happened as you always believed. You struggle to break free from old emotional habits. You defiantly build positive self-regard. You experience breakthrough insights into yourself and others. You give up old scripts, "games" and ways of manipulating people. You feel embarrassed about what you used to do, but also feel happy about what you're learning about yourself. You see some positive aspects, some benefits from going through all this.
- You dismiss suggestions
that you forgive the offender / perpetrator (if any). You still feel angry. You don't want to forgive. You may want revenge, punishment, justice. You may need to take some action to confront, report, publicize, or resolve what happened.
Transition Phase:
Awkward Efforts in Unfamiliar Territory You regress, slide back, or repeat an old pattern you thought you'd left behind. You find that old mental & emotional habits are hard to break. You accept that you're human, forgive yourself & start over again.
- You decide that for
your own well being you'll to try to forgive, but are very clear this doesn't mean condoning, approving, or excusing what happened. You don't try to forgive because others say you should. You'll forgive only when you feel ready, if you ever do.
- You experiment telling
your story to others outside your support group & circle of closest friends. You discover that many people either can't handle listening for more than short time or become overly sympathetic & distraught about what you went through. Both kinds of listeners have to be coped with, are dissatisfying to talk with. You face a new challenge, that of learning to develop conscious choices about who you tell about your past, when & how much you say.
- You struggle with assimilating
your traumatic experience into your identity. How do you deal with people who label you by your experience?
- You ask yourself "Is
there a gift in this? A blessing?"
Learn to Deal With Poor Listeners
Many who inquire about
your experience become people you have to cope with. Some people ask what it was like for you, but can't handle listening for more than several minute; they walk away or interrupt to express their opinions. Other people become overly sympathetic & distraught if you tell them about what you went through.
To handle questioners
well, it's useful to develop the ability to choose to:
- not talk about your experience even when asked.
- give a short, "Reader's Digest" summary and then change the subject.
- talk in detail with the rare person who is sincerely
interested, will take time to listen and is a good listener.
Speaking With Wisdom, Not Pain
- You find that you can
have 2 sets of feelings about what you went through. You can have both negative feelings and positive feelings. The counter-balance to painful memories is finding a positive meaning in what you'd been through (like Dr. Viktor Frankl) and discovering a new, positive life purpose.
- You notice that you
have more self-confidence and better judgment than before. Your relationships improve.
- You make yourself available to others who are just starting to deal with similar traumatic experiences. You're able to listen to them without falling back into your old pain. You encourage and coach them without trying to rescue them. You can talk about what you did and what you learned in a way
useful to them.
- You talk with various
people about your healing process and your learnings in away that doesn't subject listeners to the pain or distress you went through. You can talk about your experiences as an observer and learner. You confess mistakes, bad
judgment, weaknesses and laugh at yourself. Now when you tell your story, you do so without re-experiencing strong distress. When you tell your story you do so for the benefit of others to inspire and encourage them.
- You discover that you
have valuable messages for a wider audience, that you've acquired important learnings in the school of life that you want to share with people facing many kinds of difficulties. You realize
that without the traumatic experiences you'd never have accomplished so much beneficial personal growth. You appreciate that you've managed to convert misfortune into good luck.
- You find your
voice. You talk to groups about your experience and what you learned. You may write an article. You may
think of writing a book about how the worst thing that ever happened in your life was also the best thing that ever
happened. You want others to know that something very good can come out of something very bad.
- You work at making
your story of your experience and your healing journey a small part of your larger identity. You avoid letting your experience
become your primary identity in your own mind, even though it may be how others often refer to you.
- You find that you're
immune from opinions, comments and statements that used to upset you. You connect with other survivors who have been through their own transforming journey. You appreciate and validate each other's spirit.
- You discover at times
that you've gone many days without thinking of the traumatic experience or your long healing journey. You appreciate that your emotional wounds have healed, that you're free from what happened and that your recovery struggle changed you into a better person than you were before.
Become an Inspiring Role Model for Others
- You offer your strength and insights to others who are struggling with their pain, anguish, traumas and crises. You can stay calm and keep your attention on others in distress without having your painful memories stirred up. Your presence is helpful to others who see you as a role model and as proof that a person can heal and be happy again.
- You may decide to write
a book or create a website with valuable resources. You have the courage and strength to relive all your experiences as you write in ways that inspire others to cope with their challenges.
source: survivorguidelines.org
Eating is controlled by many factors, including:
- appetite
- food availability
- family, peer and cultural practices
- attempts at voluntary control
Dieting to a body weight leaner
than needed for health is highly promoted by:
- current fashion trends
- sales campaigns for special foods
- in some activities and professions
Eating disorders involve serious disturbances in eating behavior, such as extreme and unhealthy reduction of food intake or severe overeating, as well as feelings of distress or extreme concern about body shape or weight. (body image)
Researchers are investigating
how and why initially voluntary behaviors, such as eating smaller or larger amounts of food than usual, at some point move
beyond control in some people and develop into an eating disorder.
Studies on the basic biology
of appetite control and its alteration by prolonged overeating or starvation have uncovered enormous complexity, but in the long run have the
potential to lead to new pharmacologic treatments for eating disorders.
Eating disorders aren't due to a failure of will or behavior; rather, they're real, treatable medical illnesses in which certain maladaptive patterns
of eating take on a life of their own.
The main types
of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.1 A third type, binge-eating disorder, has been suggested but hasn't yet been approved as a formal psychiatric diagnosis.
Eating disorders frequently develop during adolescence or early adulthood, but some reports indicate their onset can occur
during childhood or later in adulthood.
Eating disorders frequently co-occur with other psychiatric disorders such as depression, substance abuse and anxiety disorders.
In addition, people who suffer from eating disorders can experience a wide range of physical health complications, including:
- serious heart conditions
- kidney failure which may lead to death
Recognition of eating disorders as real and treatable diseases, therefore, is critically important.
Females are much
more likely than males to develop an eating disorder. Only an estimated 5 to 15% of people with anorexia or bulimia and an estimated 35% of those with binge-eating disorder are male.
But....
what
happens
when your
eating
disorder
isn't
listed
anywhere?
When you're
a night eater....
getting up in the middle of the night...
sometimes eating a whole cake or a whole
loaf of banana bread before the night's over....
you may have had this problem for years....
or maybe you've just begun to find yourself waking
up next to a package of half eaten cookies....
I just didn't know that anyone else was. I thought i was the only one in the world, scarfing down a whole loaf of banana bread in the middle of the night, half awake, half
asleep & always miserable in the morning when i experienced my "food hangover."
beginning by acknowledging my problem & ending with knowing it always lies in wait for me, right around the corner of my coping abilities, waiting for weakness to overcome me again, so i can eat & eat in the middle of the night again.
it may always be there waiting for me... I don't know... but I am doing everything
possible to keep it from coming back.
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“I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition.
If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.”
Kim Basinger - Actress
  the following article is important for all to read, so important that i'm posting
it on the homepage of every site in the network! please take the time to read this very important, "front page important"
article!!!!
Guilt & Unworthiness - Understanding the Meaning of Your Negative Experiences & Feelings - By UnityLove
A chapter from "You Are the Grandest Love of All - God In Human Form" by UnityLove at Counselor of the Heart.com. Copyright 2004.
Each experience we have either shows us Who We Are ... or who we are not.
Experiences help us better define Who We Are & they show us the way to making grander choices. Experiences bring great insight along with a wealth of information about ourselves.
Our experiences become our guidance ... & remind us to return to Love in every way.
Let's address
our perceptions regarding the bad or negative situations that have happened in our lives. Many of us are ashamed of some of these experiences & beat ourselves up continually because of them.
We're going to shed a new light in how we can view these experiences in a different way. Below are explanations that
we may not have considered before & could be of great assistance in helping us "understand ourselves better".
Did
we know that one way we find out Who We Really Are ...
is by experiencing who we are not?
All experiences
gift us with information … they give us the ability to compare what served us grandly & what didn't.
Are we aware … that our life up to this point in time,
along
with all our experiences & difficulties ... have now become our credentials?
Have we realized
that the experiences we perceived as bad in our past, but have risen above & overcome the challenges in … prepared us to become a teacher to others who are going thru the very same things we did?
These experiences could be of rape, depression, alcoholism, drugs or almost anything. Are we noticing that certain people show up in our life, just because we went thru those
experiences & can truly help them now?
Have we stopped to think … that this could be all part of a Master Plan going on behind the scenes of life?
It's past time we address the guilt & unworthiness we carry within ourselves ... for it's keeping us from
our grandest action ... Loving ourselves.
Loving ourselves is the key to our Divinity.
Love opens us to the wonder we carry within us.
It allows all our dreams to come true.
We're going to address the things that we've done in our past that seem
so uncomfortable for us to bear. These are things we've put ourselves down about, beat ourselves up for, made ourselves miserable over & make ourselves less by, each minute we think about them.
There was a Divine Reason for those
experiences … Love sees it ... do you?
It's much easier to define God in terms of what God isn't ... than it
is to define God in terms of what God is. Think about this dear one, there's great wisdom in this statement.
This defining process applies to us as well.
It
becomes easier for us to define ... Who We Truly Are & would like to be ... when we re-evaluate the experiences that showed
us who we aren't.
This gives us a much clearer picture of what we don't want to express next time. It's
at that moment of feeling unhappy ... that we become aware. We gain a much clearer picture of what not to choose again.
Many times the wiser answer comes easily thru this negative experience because it just happens to be the opposite of what we chose to begin with. These particular
experiences guide us in seeing how to change our choices for the better in the future. They show the way to a grander choice of what we'd really like to
express.
Without these experiences stored within us acting as a reminder ... we'd keep repeating
the same patterns over & over.
When we've had experiences in which we didn't seem to express our best
... it becomes important to realize "what" those experiences really did do for us. These experiences left a bad taste in our mouth &
perhaps made us feel bad for they didn't work out the way we desired.
Their job was to show us ... how to make grander choices for our future ... & our job was to notice what we were being shown.
Therefore, experiencing who we aren't, isn't a bad thing ... but a door-opening event to help us understand who we really would like to
be. The only reason we feel bad is because we haven't realized the grandeur in it all.
These experiences are actually Divine ... for contained within them is
a wonderful gift. The gift is "choice." When we make a grander choice than we did before, our new choice brings
about change.
Change becomes the chisel ... that rounds off the rough edges
of an unsculpted piece of art ... bringing it to its true & final beauty.
Dear one ... You
aren't only the piece of art being sculpted ... but you're the sculptor!
A negative or bad experience helps us define what we didn't like &
weren't happy with. It helps us "find" something much grander within ourselves that we might not have considered before. It
helps us realize there were different choices available to us … the choices that would have brought what we liked & what would have made us happy in that particular life situation.
These experiences happened for a reason. If we're wise, we'll make a record of what happened
... & use it to our advantage.
Once we realize what we don't want ... we open to a whole different range of choices … that can help us feel & experience better next time.
For
how can we call forth God Expression in Human Form ... if we can't define what it is?
We encounter these
negative feelings & experiences to notice there's a grander choice of Love, a better way of feeling & a more beautiful expression awaiting us.
In the case of guilt & unworthiness ... there's a grander choice of Love for ourselves awaiting us.
Each time we choose Love in any expression ... we step more fully into our Divinity. The Divine Plan works in many ways to bring us into our grandness.
So understand, dear one ... even our negative experiences show us the way ... to God Expression in our human form.
As we carry these
past experiences & memories around within us, instead of feeling bad about them ... we need to thank them for what they've really done for us.
They're there to help remind
us not to repeat those situations again ... & they also show us the way to a better expression.
The
negative feelings we get from these experiences assist us in making grander choices the next time around … so we'll feel
better. Each time they rise within us, they remind us not to repeat that particular action, situation or experience in the
same manner we did before ... if we want to be happy, that is.
Negative reminders call out to us saying, "Hey don't forget we learned this before!"
When we take heed
... we are Re-born ... a new us arises. And it's all because of the awareness we now hold …
due to our past actions & our negative experiences.
So it's time to stop beating yourself up & putting yourself down.
It's way past time to Love yourself & hold a higher consciousness & understanding for your own sake, dear one.
Become gentler to yourself. Allow yourself to have had those experiences
... for they hold much wisdom in
what not to do again. You've gone thru something. You've learned something. You now see new & grander choices.
All
these type of things that you hold & walk around with aren't there to torment you ... but they're there to remind you
of ... "who you are not" & of the choices not to make again. Negative experiences are not your cross to carry ... they're your Angels holding the Light so you can see clearly in
a similar darkened situation.
It's all about Love ... It Always Was
It's all about finding the Love in a particular situation that challenges us. Love "was the reason" these experiences were presented to us to begin with.
In fact many of life's situations are presented exclusively to see if we can
find the Love. Finding Love for ourselves is one of our hardest challenges. When we find the Love & Love ourselves again ... that particular experience & lesson ends.
Do we know
why? Because we now know how to hold the Love being called for … even in the hardest of times. Do we not see it's all a Divine Plan to get us to our grandest human expression yet? That is, of course, if we don't use those experiences against ourselves.
In any experience in our life all we need to do is find the Love in the experience … along with finding the Love for whomever is involved in it. We're dealt many hands in life ... some of them are pretty drastic &
really tough.
Our challenge is to always find the Love, in every situation & experience we are involved in. And most of all it's in finding the Love for ourselves … no matter what we've done.
When we find the Love ... we feel the Love ... we experience the Love ... & others experience the Love coming from us.
We're here on this planet ... to find, hold & express the Love We Truly Are, no matter what's going on in our life, or around us.
The way we become
aware & understand the Love That We Are ... is by going thru all those experiences of who we are not.
Negative experiences help us stand on guard ... so we don't repeat the same situation over & over. It's the negative experiences that project us right into Who We Are. It's Love coming as a helpful friend to remind us.
Find the silver lining in any bad experience & we go past the illusion of anything being bad … into the grand awareness & wisdom
hidden as a gift in that particular experience. And it's in this way that negative experiences show us the way to what will serve us grandly in our next experience. This is the
way to happiness & feeling good as we go thru every situation in our lives. It's in the realization that the negative experience … wasn't really bad at all.
How our negative experiences ... open the doors for us to help others.
When we go to
help another but we haven't had that particular experience ourselves ... the one looking for help listens to us in a certain way. But after we explain to this individual that we have gone thru the very same experience
as he or she has ... something unique happens in the way this person listens to us from then on.
The door to their heart opens in the most beautiful of ways ... because this person comes to realize we truly do understand ... their feelings, their hurt, their pain ... & their all of it.
To this individual, you become a
genuine teacher... because you also experienced this first hand & survived it. You're able to truly guide this person
in how to feel better & make grander choices in their life because of your experience in common. Isn't it wonderful how it works?
We
first come to know Who We Are …
& then we're given the gift of helping others see ... & step into Who They
Are.
So the next time you can't find one good thing about a certain experience in your life ask yourself
...
Have I stopped & realized the wisdom, knowledge, clarity, strength & understanding I truly gained from that experience?
Do I now see a clearer path to the choices that would have better served
me better & what qualities I need to call on … for who I want to be & express next time?
Do I see how this experience also held a gift in "sculpting me into a
teacher" with much wisdom to share
… so I can truly be of service to those that come to me who are having a similar experience?
One special note …
A negative or bad experience is all in the eye of the beholder. It all boils down to the perspective one holds &
how they see the situation.
But in
truth … everything serves us, dear one.
It's our perception
that determines if the experience will be held as a positive or negative one. Anything we experience can be looked at in several ways … but know that anything held in a
negative way can be looked at positively. It all depends on if we use the mind alone … or if we bring our heart into it as well.
Our challenge is to find the Love, goodness & silver lining ... in every experience no matter how tough it was or may be.
I'd
like to share an experience from my life that really shook me up. It is given to help you fully understand a perspective of Love & how things work behind the scenes for our greater good.
Throughout my life I
was presented with many experiences that were geared to get me to speak up for myself. Every time an experience showed up
in my life to get me to do this, I failed to stand up for myself & then more experiences were presented.
The reason the experiences kept coming was … I hadn't found enough
Love for myself to honor myself.
At age 15 my boyfriend raped me. Still very much a child, I wasn't ready
for a sexual encounter mentally or emotionally. I cried the whole time the rape was happening … but I didn't take any
other actions to make him stop.
I didn't speak up or stand up for myself nor did I protect myself or show resistance in any way. I thought the boy should have known better ... I thought he definitely could see me crying & would know this wasn't appropriate.
As crazy as it sounds, I stayed with him for years & any sexual contact we had was like experiencing the rape over & over again.
Every time it happened, I was given another chance to Love myself enough to say what I felt in my heart & walk out. This was all happening because of my refusal to think enough of myself.
I could have put an end to what was happening at any time. All I had to
do was take a stand & hold my own ground. But my silent loveless pattern continued & so did the experiences.
After a traumatic event with this boy, two officers took an hour & a half out of their day to explain the facts of life & Love to me … & because of them, I finally woke up.
I didn't realize this at the
time I was experiencing it, but looking back, I now fully understand why it all had happened. Many times in my life, I was presented
with experiences to speak up for myself … which I chose over & over not to do for various reasons.
Divine Love was asking me … How tough do things have to become before you stand up for yourself?
How many uncomfortable experiences must be sent … for you to awaken to Loving yourself?
How long will you wait before you finally honor yourself?
After many attempts of trying to get me to see & do this for myself
... the Divine Plan took me into one of my hardest lessons in life. It was presented out of Pure Love to help me awaken to one of the most important things in life … Loving myself.
The reason for the experience was to find enough Love for myself to say … "No". This is "not acceptable" & walk out no matter what anyone else thought or wanted. It was all about me finally finding the Love I needed for myself, the Love that I'd been missing the whole time.
Now as I look back ... I no longer see
this as a negative experience. I realize it was all to bring me back to the Love I should have been holding for myself all along. The boy was but a character in my life that came to
push me beyond my loveless boundaries. His role was to challenge me more than any other situation before … so I would finally come to honor myself & say "No".
The experience was all Divinely Created ... so I'd
finally say & do what I needed to for myself & find the Love I so desperately needed as well.
When we come to understand that every experience we have... is but to find the
Love or gift hidden in it ... it all gets pretty simple. Understandingbrings great wisdom. Wisdom is Love. Love is Wisdom.
The more you understand that these experiences were but a way for you to see "how
to shine next time" ... the more you'll begin to Love yourself again.
You've been gathering what you need ... for the grandest human walk you've ever taken ... your grandest human expression ever ... for you're being
sculpted to Express God in Human Form.
Would God not Love Itself, honor Itself & Its Temple in every way?
All is well
... it always was. Once you finally
take the time to Love yourself enough, you'll show Love beyond compare in any situation, no matter what's happening in your life. This is one of the ways life
works behind the scenes to help you become all you can be.
It has all been a plan for you to stand in All Your Glory & Shine like you never have before. It's time to see yourself in a new light thru
the eyes of Love.
Stop putting yourself down & hurting yourself. Rise to Who You Really Are & realize the "gift" you truly received from all those experiences.
You've waited so long to be Loved & approved of, dear one … allow yourself the pleasures & rewards of Loving & "honoring yourself".
Remember, You Are that Piece of Art being Sculpted ... Sculpt Yourself Divine!
From: "You Are the Grandest Love of All - God In Human Form"
by UnityLove, Copyright 2004
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For years I was afraid to tell anyone about it. I knew that my family knew who was eating all the food at night, it was simply a public process
of elimination. Phew! That was so embarrassing as a teenager!
As an adult, it was easier to hide, but I could never hide it from myself. It was a disgusting habit that bothered me all day and all night. My sleeping habits were horrible. I tried to find out about night eating, but I couldn't find any information about it.
The closest
I came to it was a book about "chaotic eating."
That is how the emotional feelings network of sites came to be. You can't get better unless you take care of "all of you." It's not as simple as some "quick fix" method. You can't just "go on a diet." It's a personal growth
journey. It's a serious goal to find out why you're a night eater.
after searching & searching for help w/ my
problem, i did find that there is a "nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder" that almost
matched the description of what i was experiencing.
although "night
eating" is also considered an eating disorder, but a difficult one to find information about, i believe that they're
one in the same, with the nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder being an escalation of
simple "night eating." (that is my opinion only)
So....
I put this site together
for others who are experiencing night eating. I finally beat it, but it took some real will
power and I feel that at any moment I could begin night eating again. I have to be vigilent over my feelings and emotions
at all times.
I keep looking for new info,
but sincerely - there's not much out there. I beat it and I know you can too. Finding out what's really eating at you
is the biggest hurdle to overcome. Exploring your past, your traumas, your crises, and unresolved emotions and feelings is
what it's all about.
Night eating is a habit. That's another reason it's so hard to quit. Breaking the habit and establishing another positive
habit in its place is the goal! I love hearing from all of you out there that are night eaters.
I try to be as helpful as I can thru email, and I'm always here for encouragement as you process your emotions and feelings.
Use the underlined link words to
your advantage, leaving behind preconceived ideas, false beliefs and wishful thinking. If you study hard, you'll have
all the tools you need within the emotional feelings network of sites to kick night eating
straight out of your life!
kathleen
The pages within "night
eating"....
Symptoms of night
eating, descriptions of the syndrome & more. This page explains how night eating
disrupts your life. Sleep & eating habits are thrown out of sync, your mood, anxiety levels & sometimes even depression
can occur. Read more about what night eating is & be sure to click the link provided to go to an additional page about night eating for even more explanations about what may be happening in your situation!
Other eating disorders
are just as devastating & some even more than night eating. Anorexia, bulimia & binge eating are described here on this page with information
concerning symptoms of the disorders, what researchers believe causes eating disorders & how disruptive eating disorders
can be in your life. Treatment options are also listed.
did you know?
it's getting more & more prevelant to find young girls with eating disorders.
body image concepts are confused at a very early age, where concerns about looking "perfect" are being born so early in life
that girls are literally starving themselves to death in grade school.
about
trying to find your triggers...
something in your past has left an open wound
& you're seeing the results in your night eating habit. finding that trigger is difficult sometimes because of the self
protective measures our brain takes to protect us from hurtful experiences & emotional pain. the about abuse & trauma
page discusses how abuse & trauma can remain "in your present," although it may have happened in your past. It's good
to understand what's on this page!
At one of the sites in the network, "teenscene,"
the most popular page in the website is, "she's sleeping." Twice as many hits occur on that one webpage than any other page
within teenscene. It's apparent that sleep is on the minds of our young women, but how's your sleep been lately?
Night eating will really do a number on your sleeping habits.
This page talks about that & will inform you of the reasons why a good night's sleep is so important.
One of the biggest obstacles in stopping night eating is
to "stay in bed," once you wake up in the night. I urge you to stop obsessing about how
much eating you're doing, and start thinking about your relaxation breathing techniques & using them upon waking up in
the night, so you can relax yourself & go back to sleep without getting out of bed.
Remember... it's so automatic... one foot on the floor &
you're half way to the kitchen. Start to think - "I've got to stay in my bed!"
Your brain is very busy at night, while
you're sleeping. If you don't get the rest you need, there will be some dysfunctional happenings going on in your brain. Read
about the importance of allowing your brain to do what its been programmed to do on the Emotions & Feelings Page where you can read about Emotional Memory Management. This is something I really believe needs to be considered
when you're talking about what the brain does at night when you sleep.... it's helpful to understand this in finding your
triggers for night eating...
You could be experiencing a sleep disorder along with your night eating problem. I have restless legs syndrome. Take a look
at sleep disorders on this page & see if any of the symptoms look familar to you. My kids have experienced restless legs syndrome as well.... I have one daughter (adult now) who experiences episodes of night eating
as well. It's surprising once you start asking around your family that you may just find more night eaters than you expected.
You may also find other family members with sleep disorders. You don't know though - until you ask.
This page offers so much more than info on
emotions & feelings. Get some insight on the importance
of resolving those unresolved emotions & feelings that have been lying dormant inside you for so long... see how they
affect your life now in the present!
Anxiety disorders often accompany eating disorders.
Either an anxiety disorder or depression or even both could be causing more symptoms than even your night eating is giving
you to deal with.
Stigma concerning mental health & eating
disorders has kept many people from allowing themselves to accept they may be experiencing mental health issues. Read about
it here, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
night eating...
I keep searching for more articles & info concerning night
eating & posting them here. Check back now & then on this page to see if anything new has been reported!
I've been keeping track for the heck of
it, how many people come to the site looking for answers to their night eating problems. Many people have sent in this survey,
which is never published, all info is kept by me, confidentially, and the only reason I use it is to encourage those experiencing
night eating to write me & let me correspond with them for encouragement's sake.
If there's anything I can say or do..... I want to help. I do let people know
some facts that are recorded, such as:
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how many people write in have other family members who are or have experienced
night eating
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how many men, women or teens write in
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general facts concerning night eating problems
The Lifestyle Factors
These pages speak for themselves. Check out how your body reacts
to night eating, the different lifestyle factors involved in night eating and so forth!
whatz new?
on the "about sleep page" some new links to articles at the Today Show Website concerning sleep & sleep problems!
Albert Einstein
"i've just gotta say it!"
August 2009
kathleen howe
I'm back to work here and
all over the network as well as www.selfgrowth.com - newsvine.com - my new blog at
living with emotional feelings, intuit.com, and I'm beginning to write for another online publication called the examiner.com. It's all in a days work!
Typing my fingers to the bone has been most of my days recently, but I'm working on some other things as well, most directly
- my own self. I suddenly realized that I was too focused on one thing - my mental health.
Last month I began changing
my thought processes a bit to examine what goals I need to consider making so I can prioritize them and make plans to accomplish
each one. I have let myself go, "physically" and that's not good. While my mental health continues to be a struggle, I was
under the impression that I would be able to get it under control and be able to go on with the next thing. Mental health
issues aren't quite that simple to beat or so I'm finding out anyway, especially being diagnosed with post traumatic stress
disorder.
I went to a sleep clinic
and found that I was waking up between 35-40 times per hour each night. I have sleep apnea which has continually gotten worse
with weight gain. My oxygen saturation is also sinking down to 50% at times while I'm sleeping which is also very bad. So
I am getting a CPAP machine. I'll be writing my story about my sleep problems and how I'm trying to alleviate them within
the next six months over at anxieties 101 on the sleep page.
I have also gained a huge
amount of weight because of my leg. If you haven't read about my accident I had six years ago, I have had a very weak leg
that swells constantly around my ankle, gives me too much pain and I can't walk but for a few yards and I have to sit down.
I just can't exercise the way I have always exercise in the past.
So I am considering taking on swimming.
I'm so excited about it. I have found that the only thing I can do about my leg is to lose weight and have cortisone shots
into my ankle. Perhaps after losing some weight and strengthening my legs with a non weight bearing exercise I'll have less
pain at the end of each day.
I'm also going to rent some
yoga cd's and see if I can find one I like - then I'll buy it. I need to devote some time to relaxation, meditation and yoga.
I'm excited that I've made the decision to actually incorporate these very important activities into my daily regime.
There's a website I'm very
excited about and it's outside my network, it's www.innerbonding.com. I suggest that everyone visit the website and register to read
some of the free articles Margaret has on her site. I'm registered, and I've added her to my facebook, but I'm going to purchase
some of her materials and start working on inner bonding. I've found that this is the most important step for me to take in
finding out how to love myself.
I have some issues within
my family that I need to concentrate on as well. I will be taking some important time off of working and writing to see if
I can interupt the dysfunction that's currently making many people within my family miserable. I have made plans to take a
few trips on my own without the rest of the family so I can spend some quality time with a few of my adult children. I'm hoping
that things go well with them. My first trip is in September and it's to New York City! I'm very excited about it.
Here at the emotional feelings network of sites I've been trying to get all the sites looking the same and finished.
I've changed the homepages of each site or added a "network guide" which you will find directly after the homepage in the
navigational panel on the left hand side of the page. Tripod is changing their site building program to a new one so each
site will have to be transferred over to this new web tool. This month will be busy for me transferring over 30 websites to
the new tool. It will be interesting so wish me luck. If you see strange looks or changes to the format or background you'll
know why.
As soon as I get all the
sites transferred over I'll be finishing up the current sites listed on the homepages and then tweaking them all so that each
page will contain up to date information unless of course, the information seems to be timeless as some surely is. So as you
can see, I've been formulating a plan to get these sites in tip top shape so they take less time to maintain.
I haven't had an income
for seven years so that is one of my priorities. While I'll never make the emotional feelings network of sites a profitable
venture - I am working on a project that will make money on the Internet so I need to keep my time frame flexible with working
on the basics of setting up a new business. This is why I am branching out and writing some articles on other network sites
so that I can meet some people who I may be able to do business with in the future.
Perhaps I'll be sharing
some good fish stories with you all as I'm going to be doing some night fishing this month with my husband. August always
seems to have the most meteor showers and the weather will be nice still before fall comes. I've missed night fishing with
him. Part of my personal growth and recovery journey will now revolve around working on my relationships and my marriage is
one that could use a small amount of extra work - so I pick fishing in August! Watch out you big channel cats, I'll be catching
you with my mean ol' "Ugly Stick" soon!
As for all of you, I thank
you for continuing to visit the emotional feelings network of sites. I've begun to pay for
a few of the sites so that I could increase the amount of information on those sites as well as monitoring the visitors who
come to the site. This information that's available to me shows me what you all are searching for when you come to the sites.
So after I collect that information, I will research whatever it is you've been looking for and add the info to the appropriate
pages so the next time you come looking the info will be there.
I'm thankful to get that
information because it helps to guide me towards information that you all are looking for thus keeping me current and interesting!
There's more to come that I'll tell you about in September, so keep visiting and send me an email now and then to say hello!
It's those emails that keep me going!
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
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i'm glad you found your way here! maybe you can begin
to understand more about what is going on with your night eating...
if you're having night eating problems & want to share your situation, please feel free to send me an e-mail. i have been
thru this & overcome it....
please take note that i am not a medical
or mental health professional & do recommend that you get both medical and mental health advice from professionals about
your situation with night eating...
Click here to visit the Red Cross page that allows you to access your
local chapter of the Red Cross by entering your zip code in the specified box, to see how you can help in your area.
you've been visiting night
eating
please have a great day & take a few minutes to explore
some of the other sites in the emotional feelings network of sites!
explore the unresolved emotions & feelings that may be the cause of some of your pain & hurt... be curious & open
to new possibilities! thanks again for visiting at anxieties 102!
almost 30 sites, all designed, editted & maintained by kathleen!
until next time: consider
yourself hugged by a friend today!
til' next time! kathleen
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