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Name: Emily B

Hello everyone,

I am a new nurse with eating disorder questions. I'm posting on here with a personal issue. I have always had a great fear of gaining weight. I did whatever I could when I was in high-school and Nursing school to make sure I kept my weight constant. My family just called it an insecurity, and I cannot in my mind consider it anything else.

I am coming up on my first year of being a nurse, and I have gained a lot of confidence in myself. With this confidence, I have been able to overlook this need to control me weight, but only at work. It takes my mind off of it, but when I come home and I worry. I worry that I did everything right at work... I begin to worry about my weight.

I have gained a few pounds here and there this year, and I feel disgusting. It doesn't help that everyone I work with wants to lose weight and talks about it constantly. I look at the older nurses and they have all gained weight. I tell myself that I won't make unhealthy choices and I don't, but I still have gained weight. How can I take my mind off of this problem like I do at work? I need help, but am not ready to do it professionally because I know there others out their who have overcome this on their own.