Conference rocks::weight_control

800.0. "BREAK FREE FROM DIETING" by SNOC01::SKOOG () Thu Apr 29 1993 06:23

    Hi!  I'm Sue ex-pat Californian (visiting in Sept/Oct) living in
    Sydney, Australia.  I wrote Note #752 last June.  I am pleased to say
    that I have continued educating myself along those lines and have
    stablised my weight for the last 7 months.  A doctor told me, I don't
    weigh myself.  I was so excited that my blood pressure went up, but
    after a half hour it was normal again.
    
    I have continued researching the concepts, doing my affirmations, and
    because of my success I am conducting my first self-help group at my
    home on Saturday.  It will be based on 3 books, Overcoming Overeating
    by Carol Munter and (?) Hirschmann, Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie
    Orbach (she attended a group run by Carol Munter and added her feminist
    touch), and The Only Diet There Is by Sondra Ray.
    
    My ad in a local paper read (shortened by the editor) - Dieting - No
    more!  Join a group on a self-help journey from loving and accepting
    yourself to losing your obsession with food, finding out what's eating
    you, to eventual natural weight loss.
    
    I'm just so excited about it all and want to pass the word on to those
    that are stuck in the diet cycle, or know they are obsessed with food
    (could be bulemics and anorexics too!) and want to BREAK FREE!!  There
    is hope, if you follow this concept the very least that will happen to
    you is that you will love and accept yourself, I can handle that!
    
    Cheers!
    
    
    Sooz
        

    Hi,
    	Have you read "Choosing Weight Intentionally " by Xandria Williams.
    I think that you would find it very interesting. Looking at the details
    of the book it has been published in Australia.
    
    	Maureen

    Maureen,
    
    Thank you, yes I have.  I had actually bought it a couple of years ago for
    a friend.  When she heard what I was going through she lent it back to
    me.  It confirms what I have already learnt/read.
    
    Thanks for you thought.                          
    
    
    Sue