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OCD With my Eating/Working Out

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christiangal522

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I totally obsess over my eating and working out habits. I count calories, I restrict myself from a lot of differnet foods and when I don't and I eat something that I know is not healthy, I feel really really crappy. I also freak out of i don't work out 5 times a week. I used to be really overweight (220lbs at 5'6") and now weigh 155. I am super freaked about being gaining weight.

My pastoral counselor wants me to go to a eating disorder support group not because I have anorexia or bulimia but because my thinkign is a lot like what they think. I found out that my coworker's wife is one of the therapists at this program but itsa really good program. I don't know what to do!!!! I'm not sure if I want to be in a support group and i also don't know if I want my coworker to know about my 'problem'. (I work in a grace-based youth outreach program so I know that I wouldn't be looked down on but I think that is TMI for my coworker - at least from my perspective).

What would you do???
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christiangal522 said:
I totally obsess over my eating and working out habits. I count calories, I restrict myself from a lot of differnet foods and when I don't and I eat something that I know is not healthy, I feel really really crappy. I also freak out of i don't work out 5 times a week. I used to be really overweight (220lbs at 5'6") and now weigh 155. I am super freaked about being gaining weight.

My pastoral counselor wants me to go to a eating disorder support group not because I have anorexia or bulimia but because my thinkign is a lot like what they think. I found out that my coworker's wife is one of the therapists at this program but itsa really good program. I don't know what to do!!!! I'm not sure if I want to be in a support group and i also don't know if I want my coworker to know about my 'problem'. (I work in a grace-based youth outreach program so I know that I wouldn't be looked down on but I think that is TMI for my coworker - at least from my perspective).

What would you do???
HELP!!!
sorry, i dont have the mind to reply to this the way id like to right now. I will late though becaus I can definitely relate. For now Id like to say that the thought processes of an ed mindset are much more important at this point compared to the physical.
 
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