Weight-Loss Apocalypse

After 8 years, author Robin Phipps Woodall publishes a second edition of WLA-book 1 in preparation for her new book due out in January 2020, WLA-book 2. With over 52 pages of NEW content, this second edition of Weight-Loss Apocalypse examines the impact dieting has on urges to eat emotionally.

OVER EATING IN RESENTMENT AND AS AN ACT OF REBELLION: The judgment and criticism coming from her father, combined with her effort to please him, has resulted in feelings of anger, rage, resentment, and bitterness. The act of eating has become a psychological weapon against the control of her father's opinions. The strain that develops between the desire to please others by losing weight and restricting food, and the desire and survival mechanisms that seek to eat food in safety, ultimately ends in eating as a form of self defense and an act of rebellion. This is like breaking your own toys so that others can't play with them, even though you can't play with them either...as if hurting yourself will hurt others. You hurt yourself to feel free from commitments you don't think you have a choice over. The truth is you have a choice and no one is holding yourself to these ideas and commitments but you. The goal is that you're willing to let go of the approval you think

WHEN CURIOSITY ABOUT YOUR WEIGHT TRIGGERS EMOTIONAL EATING This is our 8th session, talking about the freedom from emotional eating and anxiety around food, and how hope and curiosity about weight loss triggers a relapse. You can experience an initial freedom from the dark disordered mind of an eating disorder when you choose to accept your body AS IT IS...however, when that acceptance is temporary and you go back to wondering about your weight, the darkness and misery will return. RECORDED OCTOBER 2017 #bodyimage #thinsupremacy #weightlossapocalypse #ed #emotionaleating #eatingdisorders #ana #anorexia #bingeeatingdisorder #recovery #letitgo #survivalmode

This is our 4th session. She describes what recovery feels like. As long as she accepts her body, other's disapproval because of it, and fear of health problems, this freedom with continue. Once fear of her body and fear of other's disapproval because of it returns, this freedom will disappear. Experiencing life without obsessing over your body and food, even if it is a temporary experience, is a valuable part of recovery. It allows you the awareness that freedom DOES exist. RECORDED OCTOBER 2017 #thinsupremacy #eatingdisorder #bodyimage #recovery #ed #bingeeatingdisorder #bed #foodaddiction #shame #dietbingedietcycle #weightlossapocalypse #selflove

After feeling freedom from her mind being fixated on food, and worried about her weight (she weighs over 250 pounds), her urges to binge disappeared. However, as she started to feel physically better she became curious about her weight. After getting excited to weight herself, the fixation on, anxiety about, and urges to binge increased. RECORDED OCTOBER 2017

Until she almost died in the hospital, she refused to admit her disorder was a "bad" thing. She valued her bulimia and actually praised it in her mind for over 50 years. She typifies the ultimate thin supremacist. She now sees her narcissistic self and regrets her past. RECORDED OCTOBER 2017 #thinsupremacy #weightlossapocalypse #narcissistic #ana #bed #bulimia #bingeeatingdisorder #recovery #bodyimage #shame #forgiveness #rehab

She used to be complimented on her body and to maintain her body-image status. The more she dieted the more she struggled to stop eating emotionally. When she reached out she was in a hole of depression and hopelessness to recover from obsessing over dieting, food, and her body. After a couple months of work, addressing body image and the link to her desperate need to be thin, she is feeling more at peace with her body...although she still overeats not wanting to gain more weight and envying others who diet and lose weight. RECORDED OCTOBER 2017 #ed #ana #thinsupremacy #bodyimage #judgment #shame #eatingdisorders #dietbingedietcycle #weightlossapocalypse #recovery #selflove #jealously #letitgo

This is our second session. She is facing very difficult memories...especially with regard to her parents. We discuss the compassion that is required to forgive parents when they did the best job they possibly could with respect to the times, culture, and their personal capacity (emotionally and intellectually) to parent...even when their parenting might have unintentionally contributed to mental health problems in their children. RECORDED OCTOBER 2017 #eatingdisorders #ed #bed #bingeeatingdisorder #codependency #bodyimage #dietbingedietcycle #thinsupremcy #weightlossapocalypse

This is our first session after having a consult a few months back. She left the consult angry at what was said...but now recognizes she needs to accept the truth, even though it hurts. That hurt is where recovery occurs! RECORDED OCTOBER 2017

She suffered from anorexia/bulimia for over 50 years and is having to face early childhood trauma...stemming from gang rape and her father's death. She's scared that if she gains weight she won't be attractive and is going to be vulnerable to being discarded. RECORDED OCTOBER 2017. #weightlossapocalypse #thinsupremacy #bodyimage #bulimia #anorexia #ana #bed #ed #emotionaleating #narcissism #robinphippswoodall