Time to BEAT BINGE EATING
Dieting fucks up your head. It messed me up. I felt so goddamn guilty for eating chocolate, chips, cake, junk food. I couldnāt live with myself eating those foods. I felt like I needed them so desperately but I couldnāt have them because they would wreck my body. My mentality towards food became so unhealthy, so distorted andĀ absolutely paranoid. Every minute of every waking hour was preoccupied with thoughts about food, obsessing over every morsel that passed my lips, wishing so badly to be thin. I fucking hated myself so much, my self esteem couldnāt have been any lower and any hope of being able to change my situation was lost. I couldnāt focus on anything else, I couldnāt care about anyone, I couldnāt form relationships with people. I was stuck in this viscous, unrelenting cycle for years and years and years. So now i will never diet again. I learnt the hard way dieting leads me to binge eating, hate myself and spiral out of control every single time. Anytime you have rigid rules, you will have guilt, so open your mind to all the grey areas and live happier.
Enjoy your food. Donāt feel guilty no matter what you eat. Guilt is a disgusting, devastating emotion, it will eat you alive. You have to enjoy what you eat otherwise you will feel the need to binge eat toĀ fulfillĀ your needs. If you donāt enjoy your food, you have to keep eating to search for the thing that gives you that kick. And sometimes you binge on everything and you stillĀ canātĀ find it because you canāt get rid of that unrelenting guilt you feel and it will always ruin your enjoyment of food.Ā
Use food to change the way you feel. Eating healthy makes you feel better, so eat healthy. Eat clean, eat good things for your body so you can have clear skin, better concentration, sleep better, look better, feel happier. Food can change your mood, it can shift your entire outlook in life so use it, use it to make you happy. Ā Eating junk all the time feels heavy, it feels like brain fog, it feels like depression and anxiety and hopelessness. So itās not worth consuming all the time.Ā Ā Ā
Life is unpredictable and filled with imperfections, so, as it happens, is eating. Unexpected circumstances pop up and can ruin our best intentions. Embrace it as a learning opportunity and eat at that restaurant with your friends even if you feel like you should be eating healthy. Enjoy the experience. Hope for the best but if the worst happens, adapt. If you make mistakes, learn from it, carry on. No food you eat or way of eating can be worse than a cycle of binging and self hatred.
Your idea of healthy is too healthy. Itās asking too much of yourself too soon. Be honest, is your idea of āhealthyā realistic? Can you really eat no junk food at all for the rest of your life? Can you live without chocolate at this point? Can you go vegan cold turkey? Can you be organic, gluten free today and every day for the rest of your life? Can you just eat one cookie per week? Eating unhealthy is healthy depending on what kind of scale you have. You can eat bad meals a few times a week and beĀ āunhealthyā and still be biologically healthy. So loosen those reigns, itās about sacrificing short term desires for long term gains. You have to do whatās realistic and sustainable and smart. Treat yourself sometimes because you are human and itās okay. And in the grand scheme of things, itās never as bad as you think it is. Ā
Fulfill your cravings with people, donāt do it alone. Purchasing food alone and eating alone are massive binge triggers, so eat junk food with friends, dine out on coffees, greasy food and other dishes with other people. Donāt buy food for yourself, share it. SharingĀ symbolizes generosity but also a lack of guilt for indulging. Itās a form of honesty because you are no longer hiding food in your bedroom, binging alone in the kitchen or stuffing your face alone on the train with headphones plugged in and the your head buried in a book. There is a freedom in that.Ā
You have way more control than you think. You donāt have to go off on every whim, every emotional desire to eat, every fleeting craving big or small, every cue to eat. You are the one in control. You can choose your battles. Not every craving needs to be gratified instantly, think about why you want it and how it will effect you and if you are willing to pay the price. Sometimes you will be, sometimes you wont. Ā Ā Ā
Pimples, love handles, thunder thighs, double chins.. all that can change. Peoplesā bodies can change like the weather. You are alive, you can be anything. Time and effort can turn you into anything. You are beautiful because of all the shit that has happened to you in the past, all the shit you have to live with right now and the demons you battle every day in your head and you are beautiful for the potential that is hidden inside you, waiting to burst out. You are beautiful because you are a survivor and you canĀ accomplishĀ anything you set your mind to.Ā
A strong body will always feel better than a sedentary, weak body. So make yourself strong physically to fight off your demons. Cultivate a strong mind by first cultivating a strong, indestructible body. Be structured, be disciplined and be everything you ever wanted to be.Ā
BE YOUR OWN FUCKING HERO Ā Ā
Donāt compare anything you do to anyone else. Heck no, this is your life, your journey. You do whatever you need to to be strong. You do not have to be like anyone else, go to the gym because everyone else is, be threatened by other peopleās health and weight loss efforts or feel belittled in comparison. Deep down, everyone is just as lost and insecure as you are, some people just wear a better mask than others. You are the captain of your own ship so go and get it. Ā
You canāt let go of this. You can do it, you are capable, you are brilliant, you are strong. You are capable of so many things, you have so much potential, you have so much to offer the world. Donāt let that go to waste. Fight, strike, take a stand. You are so much more than you think you are. You are fucking amazing for battling this mental illness while trying to do something with your life. You deserve to win this battle, you deserve happiness and a rich, beautiful life.Ā
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