Weight obsessions


There are a number of other weight related issues that we successfully deal with at HTH. There are multiple behaviours that can be part of a weight obsession; binging, purging, starvation or even extreme diets due to revulsion of “healthy foods” or strong belief systems. Eating disorders can become paralysing to the point that the individual is unable to maintain friendships of any kind due to the secrecy and strict regime involved in maintaining their weight.

  • Anorexia
  • Bulimia
  • Specification eating
  • Poor diet through dislike of certain foods
  • Family beliefs

Pauls finds friends after ditching her weight obsession after 10 years

Paula is a 24 year old Consultant that tells her story about how she came to get rid of her eating disorder after a decade.

I came along because I had an eating disorder that that had been completely consuming my life for over 10 years. My life was designed around supporting my eating disorder and a hell of a lot of time was involved in maintaining that. I couldn’t maintain any relationships because it was such a regime and there was so much secrecy involved as no one had any idea I was doing this.

I was massively overeating to the point that I could gain as much as 10 kilos in a 3 week period. I would massively over eat and then would have to take on another whole regime to undo the eating. It was really expensive as I had incredibly complex specifications for eating; how much I would eat, under what circumstances I would eat, what kind of foods I would eat in order to satisfy the cravings.

I had excessive surgery to deal with what I had done to my body and I purchased everything in terms of products that would undo the eating and the weight gain. I had researched everything that was on the market to be able to do that to make myself skinny and undo the damage of the eating. The fact of the matter was that no one including my family had a clue of what was going on.

I got an astonishing result with the binge eating in just one session. I never went back to that kind of behaviour again. What was even more intriguing and probably necessary was that after this massive issue was out of the way the next layer of the onion was revealed since the binge eating had masked everything else that wasn’t working.

I am constantly surprised that Steve can bring about such powerful change which is so simple and quick – I feel that there must be some other magic going on here.
I now have incredible weight stability – this has been huge for me since I had this eating disorder for over 10 years.
I used to have severe panic attacks that were very debilitating these are completely gone now.

The most amazing result for me (I never came to Steve for) eventuated out of working with him has been for me to develop friends. This really has been the single most incredible result that I have gotten. The eating disorder brought enormous shame. Having an eating disorder takes a lot of time every day to manage; I didn’t want to share meals so it wasn’t conducive to having a social life. I couldn’t maintain friendships since there was so much secrecy and shame involved. When it was at its worst I used to isolate myself (by taking myself away). I have now gained friendships for probably the first time in my life because I am able to. I like myself enough now that even if I am having a hard time I can still communicate and have friends. I have gone from being suicidal with nothing to live for with a body that had this incredible maintenance attached to it for no reason to being able to experience the joy that comes in the simple acts of friendship! This is the most important thing in my life. You can take everything away materially but you can never take a feeling or a memory of someone who loves you or sharing a gentle time or space – you have the capacity to feel everything.

I have recommended Steve to many other friends because of the results I have gotten which  I never had with anyone or from anything else. I have said to my friends “Why do it the hard way when you can have a session with Steve and just get the issue taken away?