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Hi everyone, my name's Lea.
I do need to talk about some things that I need to get off my chest.
I've been struggling a lot with my body imagine these past couple years. But recently i've noticed that it's gotten worse. (Especially since I started highschool, a few years ago)
I just want to feel happy and take a look at myself in the mirror and feel confident and happy.
I've lost around 30 pounds since summer of 2022 because my head simply does not want to eat, fearing that i will look worse. It doesnt get any better.
Some days it happens that i look at myself and feel confident, but the second i see someone with a perfect body, that confidence just leaves and makes me think i can do so much better.
Usually i only eat dinner because my mom makes me and i would feel bad not eating the food she makes. I dont eat breakfast or lunch and going to school really distracts my head from it.
I used to eat a lot. I would eat when i was bored or sad or angry. My family never stopped me which is the thing I hate the most. It was unhealthy but they never noticed.
But now just looking at food makes me physically sick. I get dizzy quite often and sometimes think im going to pass out.
I think comments about my appearence coming from my family is what has ruined me the most. I'm struggling so much and all i used to hear was "You could lose a few pounds" or jokes about my weight.
But now i hear things like "Did you lose weight?" "You look skinnier" etc. Even tho this change happened only in a couple months, they don't even seem alerted that something must be going on.
I fear to tell my family about how I feel because I know they would laugh at me and think im being dramatic. But really I just wish they could think straight and actually see that I am not okay.
Everytime I try just the slightest bit to say something they will look at me like i'm crazy. They think this is just the "teenager phase" and that i'm not mentally ill.
I need someone to listen to me for once because I am seriously losing it. Just understand what i have to say please, I am hanging on by a thread.
I just want to look perfect in the eyes of others and myself. But it's never enough.
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It has been over two weeks since I have binged and I am feeling proud of myself for that. But today I am struggling with my recovery because I am not happy with the way that I look. And I have tried all my coping skills to try and make myself feel better. Yet nothing seems to be working. I am not happy with the way that I look and have changed my clothes 10 times. I have even tried working out because sometimes that helps. Today it just feels like nothing is working. This feeling has given me the urge to binge. And I am working hard to fight the urge. I knew recovery was not going to be easy... today it just feels extra hard.
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So I have been talking to my therapist about my eating disorder and I told her a list of my coping skills she wants me to add more to my "mental toolbox" but I am not sure what other skills to use. I already do medation, deep breathing, exercise, listening to calming music, and when things get really bad I put myself in time out when I feel overwhelmed and upset. But I have been binge eating none stop for two weeks now almost three. I have put on weight and it is putting more pressure on my body. I know I need to get this under control but right now I am lost on how to do that. I also don't have support around me. It seems like no matter what I do I have no self-control.
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I hate this, I hate the fact I binge eat all the time. Whenever I feel upset I eat my feelings away, I just want it to stop. I would be having a good day and the smallest thing may hurt me and I will immediately find something to eat to make me feel better. I feel so lazy and stupid. Food is the only thing that's always been there for me when I've been sad, depressed or even suicidal as no one else ever cared to ask how I was. I tried to exercise to loose the weight I've gained from it but I just can't I'm in pain everywhere and I don't even know what to do.
I hate how whenever I'm given food I may not be hungry but I will finish the whole thing without realising or I will not want to waste anything. I grew up being told not to waste any food and now I get scared whenever I don't finish my plate. I don't even know why I just can't.
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It's so hard to resist the urges to binge and I don't know what to do. My mom keeps mentioning my weight and telling me to work out. My self esteem is tanking. I'm losing hope. I cant get therapy and i have no one to turn to. I dont trust my mother, my father wouldn't understand, my friends wouldnt be able to help. I feel like im at such a loss. I've even considered vomiting to 'cleanse myself' but I know that'd just make things worse. Any and all advice is welcome.
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Long story short: My dog is physically fit and healthy, and still he won't eat. We can't figure out what's wrong, and we have tried everything, so my vet says it must be mental. Something in his brain so to speak.
Problem is though: This is really triggering my ED. I can't eat as long as he won't eat. I don't know what to do, bc every time I see or smell food I feel sick to my stomach and feel like I'm going to throw up. Which foods can be easier to stomach, when you feel like that?
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Hi. I hope whoever who reads this is doing okay. Like genuinely okay, not just saying so.
I’d like to talk openly about a topic that just keeps reoccurring and frankly is almost shameful. I. Am. Addicted. to. Eating.
yes. That’s me, I love food. Food is life, food is delicious.. but I love it too much to a point where it’s harming me and those around me as well. As much as Id hate to admit it, these habits that I make transfer over to others that are close to me. Example of that being my boyfriend and of my friends. They have formed these habits of over eating because of spending time with me, and now we’re all stuck in a pit.
i hate that I am this way.. but I can’t resist eating food. Even if I am 100% full - like I had a full thanksgiving Turkey dinner full- feeling nauseous type of full… If someone were to give me Lebanese food.. I’d eat it no questions asked. I’d pick it, until there’s no more garlic potatoes on my plate. And then at night, I’d hate myself and my body image because I lacked self control.
why can’t I stop? Why don’t I have any boundaries?
il give an example. Today I wanted fo make an effort into being mindful of the foods I make for my body. At 11:30 I cook up a fillet fish and some air fried vegetables. I felt like I made a good decision and that there was path to improvement. Then at around 4 I consumed 2300 calories of McDonald’s with my friend later that afternoon. Why? Because she said she wanted a coffee, and I could not resist seeing the menu.
i want to lose weight, I genuinely do but I don’t even know where to start. I wanted to join support groups, but there’s no active texting ones on ***, FB or any other platforms that I can join and that are small enough to form a connection.
if you read this far… would you happen to be able to give me some advice? I’m entirely lost.
im sorry for this rant- I’ll go eat some carrots or something.
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I find myself losing my appetite and willingness top eat whenever I'm especially in an anxious or depressive state. I want to know how I can stop this cycle from reentering my life and love my body for how it is. I want a good relationship with food and I have been able to have one but once I'm stressed it feels like all my hard work just goes away. I want to be better though, I hate living like this.
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I've been on "diets" all my life. I've developed atypical anorexia then at the end of my ed I've entered a binge /fast cycle. I decided to recover and now I binge without fasting. I can't control my eating at all. Each day I say ill stop binging and I never do. I am thinking of a full blown relapse so at least I'll become skinny and not this overweight anymore.
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During Christmas break I did okay.
I was with family, which is disfunctional but loving, and friends and people I love.
I came back on Sunday and I relapsed, especially since yesterday.
Main trigger is my work, I have so much aniety because of it and I feel so stuck. But I can't no work.
How do I manage it all, I am drowning.
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