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More than 5 million people in this country suffer from eating disorders. This problem is growing at an alarming rate. An eating disorder is like any other addiction. You know it can kill you, but you don't have any control over it. It is like an alcoholic. He knows his drinking can kill him, but he does it anyway. It is the nature of the disease, but that does not mean that it can not be treated.

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If you’re hungry, eat.

Starving yourself will not result in healthy long-term weight loss. Even on a short-term basis, it will mostly cause only a loss of water weight, not much actual fat.

If you eat 1500 calories or less for weeks on end and find that you’re not losing weight, it’s likely because your metabolism has adapted. Some people even try to eat only 1200 calories or so. This can cause a multitude of problems. Not only will your body go into starvation mode and metabolize fewer calories a day making significant permanent fat loss unlikely, but you can become seriously deficient in essential vitamins and minerals.

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I’ve written before about “growing up fat� and establishing particular eating habits, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg when you talk about childhood obesity.

One of the things that bothered me the most about being heavy when I was a kid was that my mom and my grandmother were constantly looking for “programs� to help me lose weight. They bought special food, ordered away for things off of TV, enrolled me in programs, and even sent me to a clinic 200 miles away from home when I was in middle school.

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Often when people decide to get healthy and lose weight things go well for a few days, maybe a week or so, and then something happens which sends the individual back into his or her unhealthy eating patterns.

There are many possible factors in this equation, but what it seems to often boil down to is deprivation.

If you tell yourself that you will not eat one single morsel of anything remotely fattening or unhealthy, there comes a point of temptation when it becomes difficult to stick to your resolve. Often it’s nearly impossible because you have set unrealistic expectations for yourself.

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I hear a lot of people talking about wanting to lose weight, and they say things like, “I want to be a size 14,� or “I want to lose 30 pounds,� or “I want to weigh 130.� These are what I refer to as number goals.

Rather than aiming for number goals, I prefer to reach for what I call fitness goals. When I first started out, my first fitness goal was to find out what was at the end of a trail along a lake near where I lived.

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Three years ago I couldn’t walk very far without getting winded or feeling discomfort in my back. I weighed around 415 pounds and wasn’t active at all. The only activity I enjoyed back then was swimming, because it was the only activity I really could do. I loved to swim, but other than that I couldn’t really do much else.

I remember my brother wanted to show me something on a trail in the woods behind my parents’ house. I made it through the yard and the garden and back to the where the woods started, but I couldn’t get much farther. Although I wanted to spend time with my brother, physically I wasn’t able to traipse around the woods with him.

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