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Psychology today have a whole host of good exercises for ED's too for anyone interested.
Cinnie's 26 day mind makeover
I hope you don't mind if I just do a lil bit of a blog at the end of each day on here. This feels like quite a familiar place to share hopefully a bit of transformation in my behaviours... something to be accountable for as until I go back to uni I don't have a support. I find typing it out really helpful as my I often edit and add things and am more likely to look over this.
Maybe a few of you guys have a behaviour/bad habit you want gone?
I've hit my healthy weight target as some of you know - yay! Unfortunately I have binged my way up to this weight, and while it was wonderful and awful, it can't continue and has become a daily habit that NEEDS to change. I need to be healthier for my future. It's difficult as i'm so bored here, trying to find a job... but i've given myself a few projects now.
Anyway my goal now is to have breakfast, lunch, optional snack, dinner, optional treat, little supper foodwise. I have a big list of options for each meal that is sensible calorie-wise, but also know the calories I should have so I can adapt it to any situation. I really really hope that this will help.
I have this goal so that I can just have a normal routine of eating!!!! It will be really hard but hopefully after a month or two it will just be routine. Hopefully I will be able to get to know my triggers and gain control over them.
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I hope you don't mind if I just do a lil bit of a blog at the end of each day on here. This feels like quite a familiar place to share hopefully a bit of transformation in my behaviours... something to be accountable for as until I go back to uni I don't have a support. I find typing it out really helpful as my I often edit and add things and am more likely to look over this.
Maybe a few of you guys have a behaviour/bad habit you want gone?
I've hit my healthy weight target as some of you know - yay! Unfortunately I have binged my way up to this weight, and while it was wonderful and awful, it can't continue and has become a daily habit that NEEDS to change. I need to be healthier for my future. It's difficult as i'm so bored here, trying to find a job... but i've given myself a few projects now.
Anyway my goal now is to have breakfast, lunch, optional snack, dinner, optional treat, little supper foodwise. I have a big list of options for each meal that is sensible calorie-wise, but also know the calories I should have so I can adapt it to any situation. I really really hope that this will help.
I have this goal so that I can just have a normal routine of eating!!!! It will be really hard but hopefully after a month or two it will just be routine. Hopefully I will be able to get to know my triggers and gain control over them.
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Original post by Cinnie
Cinnie's 26 day mind makeover
I hope you don't mind if I just do a lil bit of a blog at the end of each day on here. This feels like quite a familiar place to share hopefully a bit of transformation in my behaviours... something to be accountable for as until I go back to uni I don't have a support. I find typing it out really helpful as my I often edit and add things and am more likely to look over this.
Maybe a few of you guys have a behaviour/bad habit you want gone?
I've hit my healthy weight target as some of you know - yay! Unfortunately I have binged my way up to this weight, and while it was wonderful and awful, it can't continue and has become a daily habit that NEEDS to change. I need to be healthier for my future. It's difficult as i'm so bored here, trying to find a job... but i've given myself a few projects now.
Anyway my goal now is to have breakfast, lunch, optional snack, dinner, optional treat, little supper foodwise. I have a big list of options for each meal that is sensible calorie-wise, but also know the calories I should have so I can adapt it to any situation. I really really hope that this will help.
I have this goal so that I can just have a normal routine of eating!!!! It will be really hard but hopefully after a month or two it will just be routine. Hopefully I will be able to get to know my triggers and gain control over them.
Day 1 =
I hope you don't mind if I just do a lil bit of a blog at the end of each day on here. This feels like quite a familiar place to share hopefully a bit of transformation in my behaviours... something to be accountable for as until I go back to uni I don't have a support. I find typing it out really helpful as my I often edit and add things and am more likely to look over this.
Maybe a few of you guys have a behaviour/bad habit you want gone?
I've hit my healthy weight target as some of you know - yay! Unfortunately I have binged my way up to this weight, and while it was wonderful and awful, it can't continue and has become a daily habit that NEEDS to change. I need to be healthier for my future. It's difficult as i'm so bored here, trying to find a job... but i've given myself a few projects now.
Anyway my goal now is to have breakfast, lunch, optional snack, dinner, optional treat, little supper foodwise. I have a big list of options for each meal that is sensible calorie-wise, but also know the calories I should have so I can adapt it to any situation. I really really hope that this will help.
I have this goal so that I can just have a normal routine of eating!!!! It will be really hard but hopefully after a month or two it will just be routine. Hopefully I will be able to get to know my triggers and gain control over them.
Day 1 =
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It makes sense to me XD.
Original post by Cinnie
Cinnie's 26 day mind makeover
I hope you don't mind if I just do a lil bit of a blog at the end of each day on here. This feels like quite a familiar place to share hopefully a bit of transformation in my behaviours... something to be accountable for as until I go back to uni I don't have a support. I find typing it out really helpful as my I often edit and add things and am more likely to look over this.
Maybe a few of you guys have a behaviour/bad habit you want gone?
I've hit my healthy weight target as some of you know - yay! Unfortunately I have binged my way up to this weight, and while it was wonderful and awful, it can't continue and has become a daily habit that NEEDS to change. I need to be healthier for my future. It's difficult as i'm so bored here, trying to find a job... but i've given myself a few projects now.
Anyway my goal now is to have breakfast, lunch, optional snack, dinner, optional treat, little supper foodwise. I have a big list of options for each meal that is sensible calorie-wise, but also know the calories I should have so I can adapt it to any situation. I really really hope that this will help.
I have this goal so that I can just have a normal routine of eating!!!! It will be really hard but hopefully after a month or two it will just be routine. Hopefully I will be able to get to know my triggers and gain control over them.
Day 1 =
I hope you don't mind if I just do a lil bit of a blog at the end of each day on here. This feels like quite a familiar place to share hopefully a bit of transformation in my behaviours... something to be accountable for as until I go back to uni I don't have a support. I find typing it out really helpful as my I often edit and add things and am more likely to look over this.
Maybe a few of you guys have a behaviour/bad habit you want gone?
I've hit my healthy weight target as some of you know - yay! Unfortunately I have binged my way up to this weight, and while it was wonderful and awful, it can't continue and has become a daily habit that NEEDS to change. I need to be healthier for my future. It's difficult as i'm so bored here, trying to find a job... but i've given myself a few projects now.
Anyway my goal now is to have breakfast, lunch, optional snack, dinner, optional treat, little supper foodwise. I have a big list of options for each meal that is sensible calorie-wise, but also know the calories I should have so I can adapt it to any situation. I really really hope that this will help.
I have this goal so that I can just have a normal routine of eating!!!! It will be really hard but hopefully after a month or two it will just be routine. Hopefully I will be able to get to know my triggers and gain control over them.
Day 1 =
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SO nice to read something so positive
Cinnie, you and I are at the same recovery point and your EXACT anxieties and scenarios resonated with me to the point of (proud) tears, I know how difficult certain words and phrases are.
Well done sweetheart. Life is too awesome to let a disease take from you, let alone something like this where you effectively GIVE IT AWAY. XXX
Well done sweetheart. Life is too awesome to let a disease take from you, let alone something like this where you effectively GIVE IT AWAY. XXX
Original post by Cinnie
Cinnie's 26 day mind makeover
I hope you don't mind if I just do a lil bit of a blog at the end of each day on here. This feels like quite a familiar place to share hopefully a bit of transformation in my behaviours... something to be accountable for as until I go back to uni I don't have a support. I find typing it out really helpful as my I often edit and add things and am more likely to look over this.
Maybe a few of you guys have a behaviour/bad habit you want gone?
I've hit my healthy weight target as some of you know - yay! Unfortunately I have binged my way up to this weight, and while it was wonderful and awful, it can't continue and has become a daily habit that NEEDS to change. I need to be healthier for my future. It's difficult as i'm so bored here, trying to find a job... but i've given myself a few projects now.
Anyway my goal now is to have breakfast, lunch, optional snack, dinner, optional treat, little supper foodwise. I have a big list of options for each meal that is sensible calorie-wise, but also know the calories I should have so I can adapt it to any situation. I really really hope that this will help.
I have this goal so that I can just have a normal routine of eating!!!! It will be really hard but hopefully after a month or two it will just be routine. Hopefully I will be able to get to know my triggers and gain control over them.
Day 1 =
I hope you don't mind if I just do a lil bit of a blog at the end of each day on here. This feels like quite a familiar place to share hopefully a bit of transformation in my behaviours... something to be accountable for as until I go back to uni I don't have a support. I find typing it out really helpful as my I often edit and add things and am more likely to look over this.
Maybe a few of you guys have a behaviour/bad habit you want gone?
I've hit my healthy weight target as some of you know - yay! Unfortunately I have binged my way up to this weight, and while it was wonderful and awful, it can't continue and has become a daily habit that NEEDS to change. I need to be healthier for my future. It's difficult as i'm so bored here, trying to find a job... but i've given myself a few projects now.
Anyway my goal now is to have breakfast, lunch, optional snack, dinner, optional treat, little supper foodwise. I have a big list of options for each meal that is sensible calorie-wise, but also know the calories I should have so I can adapt it to any situation. I really really hope that this will help.
I have this goal so that I can just have a normal routine of eating!!!! It will be really hard but hopefully after a month or two it will just be routine. Hopefully I will be able to get to know my triggers and gain control over them.
Day 1 =
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Wooooo ^_^ that is all.
does anyone have any experience of trying to access treatment when they're not 'underweight enough'? i'm mentally as sick as i've ever been, my overall health relating to my eating disorder is worse than it's ever been (we're talking osteoporosis) and i have absolutely zero hope of getting better on my own, but although i've been significantly underweight in the past i'm not thin enough anymore to meet the criteria that there seem to be for anorexia. is there even any hope of a diagnosis? my first instinct would be to just lose the weight but i feel like my body can't cope with losing that much weight that fast anymore. don't want to go to the doctors and just get laughed at, and don't want to get diagnosed with something else just because i'm too fat to be an anorexic. i don't know what to do.
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does anyone have any experience of trying to access treatment when they're not 'underweight enough'? i'm mentally as sick as i've ever been, my overall health relating to my eating disorder is worse than it's ever been (we're talking osteoporosis) and i have absolutely zero hope of getting better on my own, but although i've been significantly underweight in the past i'm not thin enough anymore to meet the criteria that there seem to be for anorexia. is there even any hope of a diagnosis? my first instinct would be to just lose the weight but i feel like my body can't cope with losing that much weight that fast anymore. don't want to go to the doctors and just get laughed at, and don't want to get diagnosed with something else just because i'm too fat to be an anorexic. i don't know what to do.
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does anyone have any experience of trying to access treatment when they're not 'underweight enough'? i'm mentally as sick as i've ever been, my overall health relating to my eating disorder is worse than it's ever been (we're talking osteoporosis) and i have absolutely zero hope of getting better on my own, but although i've been significantly underweight in the past i'm not thin enough anymore to meet the criteria that there seem to be for anorexia. is there even any hope of a diagnosis? my first instinct would be to just lose the weight but i feel like my body can't cope with losing that much weight that fast anymore. don't want to go to the doctors and just get laughed at, and don't want to get diagnosed with something else just because i'm too fat to be an anorexic. i don't know what to do.
what do you mean by 'not underweight enough'? do you mean a 'normal' BMI? you NEED to go to the doctors, they're there to help and not laugh at you! there is no set weight for an anorexic, they will give you the help you need! i was treated by my doctor, i also saw a councillor and an eating disorder specialist. someone else i knew was anorexic and bulimic but they werent 'underweight' but they still went to a councillor and doctor. so please go
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does anyone have any experience of trying to access treatment when they're not 'underweight enough'? i'm mentally as sick as i've ever been, my overall health relating to my eating disorder is worse than it's ever been (we're talking osteoporosis) and i have absolutely zero hope of getting better on my own, but although i've been significantly underweight in the past i'm not thin enough anymore to meet the criteria that there seem to be for anorexia. is there even any hope of a diagnosis? my first instinct would be to just lose the weight but i feel like my body can't cope with losing that much weight that fast anymore. don't want to go to the doctors and just get laughed at, and don't want to get diagnosed with something else just because i'm too fat to be an anorexic. i don't know what to do.
It doesn't matter what 'label' you are - eating disorders ruin lives at any weight and an decent doctor will take it seriously. Most people don't spend their disease in any one 'type', so you can be suffering from the effects of anorexia at any weight. Don't let yourself get emaciated just to feel like you deserve treatment. This goes for me, too. I have stopped going for my checkups now I feel 'not underweight enough' but we will go, deal?
The doctor WILL NOT laugh at you, especially when you explain your history and all of your problems. You have osteoperosis!! That in itself is something the doctor will recognise and want to treat. Ask for referral to a dietician and eating disorder support specialists and he should do so. Please please don't wait around wanting to get better but physically deteriorating.
Edit: Oh and just to add. When I got diagnosed, he did not talk about it in terms of anorexia, he talked about it in terms of an eating disorder. It confused me at first but now I look back on it... I knew that he knew not to put me under any sort of specific label, because at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter.
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Hi there,
I posted this thread http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2050067 in the relationship forum - it's about when I should tell my boyfriend that I was bulimic - I was hoping that maybe some of you guys would have some advice for me seeing as you may have experience with this?
Even though I've started recovering on my own, I'm still so scared about telling him. It's something that I've always kept secret from absolutely everybody I know, but I feel as though I should maybe tell him soon. So if anybody doesn't mind giving any advice they may have, I will be so so grateful
I posted this thread http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2050067 in the relationship forum - it's about when I should tell my boyfriend that I was bulimic - I was hoping that maybe some of you guys would have some advice for me seeing as you may have experience with this?
Even though I've started recovering on my own, I'm still so scared about telling him. It's something that I've always kept secret from absolutely everybody I know, but I feel as though I should maybe tell him soon. So if anybody doesn't mind giving any advice they may have, I will be so so grateful
Btw sorry if my above post seems kind of impolite for barging in on this thread and asking people to answer mine... I just need advice
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YAY. WEll done. I can see how your sister would start to get on your tits a little. If I'm reading, thats it. I'm reading. I'm probably doing that because I don't actually want to talk to you.
Such a difficult year battling this and just found out I passed the second year with a first feels like sticking my middle finger at my eating disorder.
feels like sticking my middle finger at my eating disorder.Ow
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Been seeing my GP for depression and anxiety for the past 4 months, and I've practically just admitted about my eating disorder because I couldn't take it any more. Unfortunately, my GP who deals with my depression has left so I'm with a new, very patronising and socially awkward new GP who I just don't connect with at all. Anyway, broke down and felt rather 'silly'. Been referred to a nutritionalist and counseling and came out the surgery with the strong urge to eat (as I skipped breakfast... darn anorexia). I might actually eat now. Scrap that, I WILL actually eat now. I feel a huge pressure has been lifted...
Also, he wants to increase my depressants dosage or change my medication as its not agreeing with me- but unfortunately he can't do this because theres something weird going on with my liver, and this has bee going on for years now. I have a routine blood test for this tomorrow but he can't do anything else apart from wait for the results which'll be back in about 2 weeks time. On top of that because of my anti-d's and my liver I'm not able to take any other pain relief at the moment, like paracetamol and, annoyingly, I've had flu for the past 2 days and feel like death. His advice? Shrug of the shoulders and "stuff happens, just deal with it." I actually wanted to slap him...
Lets say I don't get on with this guy.
Also, he wants to increase my depressants dosage or change my medication as its not agreeing with me- but unfortunately he can't do this because theres something weird going on with my liver, and this has bee going on for years now. I have a routine blood test for this tomorrow but he can't do anything else apart from wait for the results which'll be back in about 2 weeks time. On top of that because of my anti-d's and my liver I'm not able to take any other pain relief at the moment, like paracetamol and, annoyingly, I've had flu for the past 2 days and feel like death. His advice? Shrug of the shoulders and "stuff happens, just deal with it." I actually wanted to slap him...
Lets say I don't get on with this guy.
I've reached a terrifyingly odd point in recovery.
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I've reached a terrifyingly odd point in recovery.
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toto, muscle cannot turn into fat, and neither can fat turn into muscle. You can get through this, and I know you will, because you're badass and stuff like that.
I know Snow, but the ratios of muscle, water and fat can shift. I'm just at an anxious point and that one comment has really floored me! X
