[ SECRET POST #3551 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3551 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.



__________________________________________________



02.
[Star Trek]


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________















07. [WARNING for non-con]



__________________________________________________



08. [WARNING for mentions/discussion of abuse, rape, pedophilia, etc]

[YuGiOh! The Abridged Series, Little Kuriboh]



















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 47 secrets from Secret Submission Post #507.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Advice thread?

[(Anonymous)]

For me, the main component of anorexia was that I simply couldn't STOP thinking obsessively about 1) eating/not eating and 2) gaining/losing weight.

My days were FILLED with thoughts of not letting myself eat, as well as thoughts of what little it would be "okay" for me to eat. I planned and replanned it. And it quickly got to a point where "eating" and "food" were synonymous with "bad" in my mind.

I would say that if you feel as though your thoughts related to eating and weight are becoming obsessive (repetitive and stressful to you), then that's a bad sign. Also, ask yourself whether eating is something you ALWAYS feel bad about (I mean, after the fact), or whether you're comfortable with eating in moderation and you only feel bad when you know you've exceeded the amount of food your body requires to function at its best.

When I was anorexic, there was this weird duality where I never really enjoyed eating because I felt guilty and fat and weak while I was eating, but at the same time, I craved food desperately. I wanted food more than I'd ever wanted food before, but as soon as I gave in and ate I felt like shit.

Bottom line, I think it's really hard not to think about dieting as this thing you have to keep up, day after day, ad nauseum. And that can lead a person down a bad road, because if you succeed in losing weight, you just end up feeling like "Now I have to work even harder to keep up this trend, and I can't afford to fail now that I've made real progress."

It's hard as hell to get to the point where you can make each "healthy" food choice on its own merit, without thinking about The Long Game (aka, losing weight and keeping it off), but I think any time a person can get themselves in the habit of just making each individual food choice on its own merit, that's a really fantastic habit to get into. Because then, when you choose to order a large sundae with extra sauce (just as a random example), it's just one choice, and it doesn't negate the times you chose a small soft-serve cone instead, or the times you chose apple wedges, or the times you will choose those other things in the future. And when you do choose the apple wedges, it's also just one choice, and it doesn't mean you can't choose a large sundae next time if that's what you want.