Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

You know what I learnt today, that the left side (or is right) is logical and the right is more emotional. Apparently women use their right side more. Well, there's my first problem :(

BUT...who says it has to stick like this. A long time ago, i was recommended a self-help book. I was like NO WAYS am i using a self-help book but weirdly, i bought it and used it and to my shock, it worked. Ever since then i have been trying to apply it to my everyday life but it's tough. First of all, you have to write stuff down which is a bother in itself but im gonna try. if it's gonna help, who am i to argue?

So. Let's start.

What's bothering you?

Well, I am feeling like such a fool, I am SO scared that i am just gonna keep overeating forever and i hate that i have wasted 3 years of my life like this and that i am fat and ugly and none of my clothes fit me. 

Identify distortions

"i am just gonna keep overeating forever " This is an example of fortune-telling, nobody knows what your eating habits are going to be like tomorrow, let alone "forever". 

"i hate that i have wasted 3 years of my life" How wasted? In your spare time, you tutor student Mathematics and Physics. How is that wasting your time? Your students have all got As this year. Remember how scared you were of going out? Remember how you thought you wouldn't be able to go out again? This year, how often did you go out with your little sis? How much has it improved your life? A LOT. don't you feel free? How about your blog (other blog, haha) despite what you might think, a lot of great people have commented-remember mademoisellerobot said she thought your blog was great. Remember the guy who was picked by an AWESOME blogger regularly comments on your blog. and now you're saying to yourself "they're just doing that to be nice" but how do you know this? are you a mind reader? couldn't they be doing this because they find your content interesting? 

 "i am fat and ugly and none of my clothes fit me." 

Firstly, your body fat percentage is completely normal. What's bothering you is that you eat badly and this isn't healthy. You are in a perfectly healthy range and deep down-you knows I'm right. If you're fat...then so many great people that you admire are also fat-Leighton Meester, WWW, Olivia and loads of others... 

Your clothes fit you. Some don't. Majority of them do. WEAR THEM. You don't look fat in them because they fit you.