Disordered eating
Hey! So as you may know I did a post about cellulite and it went away! And I’m enjoying the foods that I want to eat, But now I have a stomach bug and all I eat is toast and tea and now I feel like when I get better Im afraid that I will restrict my food groups so that I can be thin.
@bubbleLemon2832
Any ideas on what you can do to not restrict. I can imagine the temptation will be there, but it sounds like you have been through battles to work through challenges before and have been victorious.
Maybe just tell myself that I can control my thoughts, feelings and actions of how I treat myself and my body.
@bubbleLemon2832
Those are great ideas, and quite tough as well. The struggle to think through feelings can be tough, rather than react to them can be difficult when they are fairly intense.
Personally I've found that taking a deep breathe helps me to think for a minute before reacting or acting on my thoughts so that I can be a little clearer and slow down a bit when feeling emotional. I don't know if you've ever found taking a deep breath helpful or not, but just that pause from doing it has been a good pause.
@bubbleLemon2832 try eat more healthy foods. Whole foods like vegetables, lentils and beans, nuts, fruit etc. Healthy food you can eat as much as you want, you dont gain weight from overeating healthy foods. And you tolerate bad stuff more if your lunch and dinner is healthy, that is you can eat more bad stuff before gaining weight and become sick if your dinner is healthy.
I'm worried I may be developing a bit of an eating disorder. I've lost 17lbs in 2 and a half weeks. I'm in a mixed bipolar episode and have regular periods of no sleep, food, little liquids for usually 3 day stretches. When I'm not in one of these cycles I only eat very small amounts. The thought of eating even turns me off. Right now I only eat small amounts to survive but drink Ensure when I can. I have a lot of knowledge on psychology/psychiatry. But this is an area I'm a bit clueless on. I see my therapist today. I'd like to have more to go on before I bring it up to her. Could use any input.
