Exposing myself on the internet #2 PART ONE
Okay so this is the only place I can truly talk about this without people criticising the fk out of me. And no before you think it, I am not bashing eating issues, I’m talking about my experience with them.
Basically I’d say since I was in year 8 I’ve had a trouble with food but only realised the severity recently. It started off with whenever I was sad I’d eat maybe one extra chocolate bar and wouldn’t think much of it. Then year 9, my biggest cause of stress (besides this year but I’ll get into that later) I wouldn’t eat in the morning, determined each day to try be ‘healthier’ by not eating 😑🤦🏼♀️. Then by the time I got to school I would give up and each at break and lunch like no deal. Then I’d come home and eat several snacks and then dinner. It wasn’t too bad and quite normal.
But, by the end of year nine I was posing a ‘serious health risk’ to myself and this is how my daily meal list would look like.
- eat a brownie or something like that at 9am
- eat my entire lunch at 11:10am
Sit dying of what I thought was hunger during lunch at 1:30pm but it was just the need to eat
Get home at 4pm and have a packet of crisps, a chocolate bar, 4 custard creams, a bowl of cereal, and sometimes cheese
Get stress and my mum give in to making me dinner early at 6pm
At 7:30pm when my parents have their dinner, I’d ask for a serving
10pm have some small snack before bed
I kid you not this was what I ate from about March year 9 to February year 10 (last month).
I tried stopping but when I tried I would always fail and feel so shit about everything and anything that I’d end up eating MORE than I usually consume. I would try starve myself and I would never make it more than 4 days without giving in. At first I thought it was just a unhealthy addiction to food but after talking with my councillor and confusing conversations of how it didn’t fit with my phobia of vomit because normally people with that phobia stay clear of foods that make them feel sick if consumed too regularly, we realised it was much deeper than just liking the taste. Each of the times in the day that I would eat it would always be the most stressful points in my day.
Before school where I’d be surrounded with issues
9am minutes before class started where I would face social situations
11:10am where I would have to sit and try to engage in uneven conversations to show people I’m not close with that I’m ‘confident’ and ‘fun’ to be around
1:30pm where break was repeated but for longer
4pm where I’ve had a stressful day and surrounded by family issues and it’s peak time for arguments to happen between friends online
6pm to 10pm would be my safe time when I could either be in a neutral but comfortable mood or tight and apprehensive about social media problems or issues rising
I was eating to comfort myself as the items I would consume would be things I’m used to and would be the same things on repeat and would give me a moment of peace or ecstasy where I felt happy. I only found out recently that its an actual condition and binge eating classifys as an eating disorder because of the motives and thoughts behind the actions. When you think of eating disorder you think of anorexia and a noticeable difference in body shape. Over the course this my body did not change, in fact I only gained a stone in the year ish I had the problem.