Bored? Want to avoid the pantry? Pull up youtube and watch “My 600 Pound Life”, “Supersize vs. Superskinny” (my fav), or “Secret Eaters”. All of these prevent me from eating, and since “supersize vs superskinny” shows overweight and underweight people, it inspires me not to gain and to lose weight quicker.
1. starting weight?
2. current weight?
3. goal weight(s)?
4. ultimate goal weight?
5. tea or coffee?
6. water or coffee/tea?
7. any tips?
8. exercise routine?
11. average amount of calories a day?
12. thigh gap or collarbones?
13. height?
14. age?
15. name or nickname?
16. thinspo model?
17. fandom character you aspire to look like?
18. favorite band or artist?
19. thin ankles or wrists?
20. activities to keep you distracted from binging?
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Here’s some tips to distract you from eating!
▪reading a book
▪cleaning your room
▪organizing your clothes
▪finding thinspo to motivate you
▪drinking water or coffee
▪smoking a cigarette
▪watching America’s Next Top Model
▪finding clothes online that will look amazing when you’re finally at your goal weight
▪chewing gum
▪listening to music
▪plan our your meals and calories for the day
▪talking to an Ana buddy if you have one
Simple. Just wanting to get thin. To be beautiful. To look like a ballerina, or a model. That’s all I thought it was. So, so simple.
Right?
But recently I’ve come to realize- that’s not all this is about. Of course, wanting to be thin is part of it. A big part of it. But there’s more. I’m not just starving myself because I want to lose weight or because I want to be delicate or have prominent collarbones.
I’m starving myself because I want to be loved. But love doesn’t come free, and it so often seems like nobody will ever love me by choice. So I suppose, in a way, you could say that I’m forcing people to love me.
I’m forcing them to worry. To ask if I’ve eaten. If I’m okay. If I had breakfast, if I want their extra granola bar.
“Are you feeling sick?”
“Do you need anything?”
“You should take care of yourself.”
That is what I’m REALLY after. Tell me to eat. Tell me you’re worried about me. Tell me I matter, that I shouldn’t disappear. That I’m beautiful. That I’m wanted. Please tell me.
I need to hear it and this is the only way I know how.
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I do not mean I sniffed a coconut for too long and now I’m 2 calories above my limit.
I mean I devoured bowl after bowl of pasta, cut my mouth on packet after packet of crisps, licked the crumbs that fell off cookie after cookie, ate mass amounts of frozen, raw, stale, gross ass food until it was spilling out my esophagus, all with a blank stare and a stomach and mind screaming at me to stop.
Binging is excessive, painful, compulsive eating that makes you feel like an embarrassing fat piece of shit.
It is not 4 more strawberries than you planned.
THIS. FUCKING THIS. I’m tired of people calling 100 extra calories a binge. Hell, even 1000 extra calories isn’t a binge. Fucking 3000+ calories is a binge.
Apparently, technically any food eaten ‘uncontrollably’ is considered a binge.
When I go in for treatment (anorexia) and they ask me if I ‘binged’, they don’t only mean 3000+ extra cals you eat until you’re stuffed. They are asking me if I ate any food ‘uncontrollably’, in a way I felt I couldn’t resist or stop, grabbing for it, eaten with haste, promoting shameful and guilty feelings - even if it’s just a bowl of oatmeal or single-serve packet of microwave rice or a flapjack bar from work (yah my ‘binges’ when they happen are mostly carbs lol). Though my smallest binge was either 5 dried apricot slices, or when I had 2 chocolate covered dates (though I’ve also eaten those things mindfully, without it being a binge)
You can have a whole bunch of potatoes, and stuffing, sausages, turkey, dessert, snacks, god knows what and make yourself feel sick, and that could be a binge depending on how you felt and why you ate it. You can also eat that exact same amount of food on Christmas day with your family, making yourself feel sick, with it not being a binge at all, because it was purposeful, mindful and not uncontrollable - just indulgence.
At least, that’s what those medical professionals have explained to me.
When it comes to a ‘binge’ as an isolated incident, not about the calories, it’s about the mental state - like with eating disorders in general, it’s not about the numbers (weight, calories, etc), it’s about what’s going on underneath. When it comes to disorders in general, there’s obviously a difference - if you’re binging on small amounts of food because you’re otherwise obsessed with restricting, it’s a restrictive eating disorder. If you’re frequently binging on large amounts of food without being overly concerned about restricting, it’s BED. You can also have mixes of the two. Then bulimia is you binge and then throw up, etc as we all know.
It’s not so cut and dry. It’s all intertwined.
‘Binging’ in a clinical setting refers to eating something in a way you felt you couldn’t help or resist, felt compulsive, medical professionals arn’t overly concerned with the calorie content of your food when treating EDs (unless you’re going through weight restoration). The only people so stubbornly concerned with calories and numbers and what they mean for us are us - the sufferers.
For the last comment that was amazingly explained and helpful as hell
THANK YOU i have been so bothered by seeing posts like the original one all over the place, very well said
