Personal Evaluation
1. How have the opinions and statements of others affected your eating behaviors? When I have a bad day, or someone's said something sort of negative to me about my weight, I tend to go to two extremes - I either starve myself or binge. Or I do both, and binge in secret. I've always been a yo-yo-er when it comes to responding to the opinions and statements of others about my weight. Sometimes the worst comments people have made are to say that I am "okay the way I am" and that I'm "just big-boned, it's in the family." Because I always felt like those are crutch statements to coverup for the truth - that this isn't healthy but no one wants to make a change about it.
2. How do you feel about the current role you play in your family drama? I feel uncomfortable sometimes. I love my family, but sometimes I feel like I'm the black sheep - the one on the outside, looking in. Because I don't always agree with them, and because I'm more strongly opinionated about certain topics, I feel like I make myself be an outcast in my family, and I have to work to fit in. Sometimes I think my eating habits reflect that.
3. What would you like to change about this role? I would like to be a success story and a role-model for my family. I'd like to be on the inside but not as a result of the things I do, but because of the attitudes and opinions I have - or the way that I keep those attitudes/opinions to myself, especially if they will cause conflict.
4. What decisions can you make today to effect the above changes? I'm not really 100% sure. This is something I'd need to think more about to know how to deal with it.
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