#diet change

[wanderingmind867]

My stomach is still bugging me, and i don't know what's causing it anymore. Is it the iron pill? Is it the fact that I ate a lot of fast food before, but haven't lately? Is it me not exercising enough? I don't really know, but i hate it nonetheless. But for anyone who doesn't understand what I'm going through, here's some context: Around May 20th, my doctor gave me an iron medication. This was because my bloodwork showed that I had low iron, and my doctor was worried about it. For the first month or two that I was on this pill, things seemed fine. There were a few days in June when things really hurt, but nothing too out of the ordinary happened that month.

Around June 30th, it started really getting bad. But I didn't stop taking the pill around July 2nd. And all throughout July, my stomach hurt. Although i never actually had diarrhea, sometimes it hurt enough that it almost felt as if i did. It got bad enough that i decided to stop taking the iron pill for a while because of that (i became legitimately scared to take it). So that makes me wonder if it actually is the iron pill, because the stomach pain persisted even after i stopped taking the pill.

So eventually we went to see my doctor about it (or rather, we saw a replacement doctor about it), and they merely said I was constipated and that i still needed to go back on the iron. Although the doctor seemed like a really nice person, that advice never really made me feel better. And considering the stomach pain still isn't any better, now i really don't feel like that appointment made me feel any better about things.

And a while after that appointment (when it was clear i still didn't feel much better) my dad emailed my doctor to tell her about this, and now she wants to see me about my diet or something. And sure, maybe my diet is responsible for all this. But it still makes me feel like it's implying I'm unhealthy, and I hate that! It's made me awfully bitter, and so i'm now a little nervous for the appointment on friday.

But now we've reached the end of August, and you're all caught up. I'm suffering from either severe stomach pain when i do go bathroom, or constipation when i don't. I don't know what's actually causing all this (is it the iron pill? the change in diet off of fast food? the lack of exercise?, etc), and i don't know if i'll actually get any answers this friday. All I know is: this pain really sucks to deal with, and i don't know what to do when the school year begins in a few weeks. Because if i'm still dealing with all this, i don't think i'll actually be able to go back.

[mod-by-reb]

Hi there

I’m Reb :) 

I’m struggling with disordered eating, so I thought I might as well start a mini accountability blog to see how my relationship with food improves with time!

(see my goals here) 

I somehow managed to recover from my eating disorder, but I’m still stuck with unhealthy eating habits when it comes to how I eat. 

I’ve had an unhealthy relationship with food my whole life (pre-ED) because of how I grew up. We never had any food in the fridge aside from mayo and mustard, and with every trip to the grocery store, it was a free for all and everything was consumed in the first day and a half, and the rest of the week was pretty much just a yikes situation :D When my family got into a better financial situation, despite food being readily available these habits persisted and we still overate every day because of the irrational fear that the food might be gone the following day. Ultimately this resulted in my unhealthy consumption and now that I’ve recovered from a bigger demon, I’ve decided what the hecc, might as well treat my body with respect and fix this too

I do not engage in calorie counting and the food I consume doesn’t impact me mentally. Physically however? As I type I feel a tat bit sick because of my intake, but hey, that’s what this blog is for- overcoming this :) 

I do hope to fully tune in with my body and overall lose around 10kg of fat, but that’s only really for the sake of my hobbies (sports).

Once again, I do not feel bad about what I eat or how I eat whatsoever- during consumption or after the fact. This is NOT an ED blog.

My disordered eating includes some of the habits I developed during my eating disorder too, where I essentially ignore any hunger (not going to go into details). This results in me either eating my daily intake (and sometimes more) in one meal (more or less OMAD, but correct me if I’m wrong- 2500+ calories per sitting is not the strat :D) or eating no breakfast, having a very tiny lunch, eating a decent dinner, and then snacking to keep the feeling of being full until about 3/4 hours before bedtime. 

I estimate the calories I consume instead of counting, and I pretty much eat up to maintenance daily (I’m pretty sporty, so this comes up to about 3000 calories a day) which is pretty darn great. I’ll have to develop a small deficit overall (won’t be an issue considering I literally feel stuffed while eating maintenance) to lose the last bit of excess weight I’m hanging onto. 

The goal for now is to get used to feeling satiated and maintaining that, rather than being at one extreme or the other (ignoring hunger vs being fully stuffed and maintaining that feeling). I'm hoping to learn to notice my hunger by asking my body if it’s either hungry, thirsty or bored  and respond appropriately. If the answer is hungry, the main goal is to stop eating when I'm satiated rather than full to the brim and to allow myself to refuel in this manner for good! 

As the blog name suggests: ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*  moderation is key  *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ 

So wish me luck!

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Throughout my update posts (structured “Day X”) I’ll highlight the thinking I see as problematic, to emphasize what I need to work on.

[starlit-mermaid]

I think the hardest thing is going to be changing what I eat and how I eat. I need to challenge myself more at the gym as well but I feel good that I've been going almost every day for the last two weeks.

I'm also interested in eating clean if anyone has any tips or info on that, would you message me? I'm curious to learn about it and how I can improve my eating with my lifestyle.

[everydayecclecticwitch]

Three weeks without a Coca-Cola. Bought myself a sexy purple pen for a reward.

[gackts-girl-88]

Never thought I'd like lemon with meatloaf, but it's pretty damn good. Changing my diet so I made some meatloaf with carrots and onions in it, crusted with crushed red pepper, lemon zest, and a lemon juice and olive oil drizzle to cook in.

Forgive the paper plate, but I was too lazy to dirty up a regular plate.

[enby-healthblr]

In BLAST the Sugar Out!, Ian K. Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Shred Power Cleanse, will guide you to eat well—and frequently—while controlling carbohydrates and dropping pounds to get to goal. You will lose weight on this diet—and start losing fast.

Hey team! 

This is the book I’m going to use to guide me in removing sugar from my diet. I’m going to start taking small steps to remove sugar now, so that come March 19th I’ll be ready to go completely without sugar. 

Check it out if you want to join me!

[unhappyinparadise]

Going Vegan: Day 24

I feel better today. Yay! I think I’ve figured out what was making me feel extra sick. Randomly I will get allergic reactions to weird things: shampoo, perfumes, certain soaps, I’ll randomly get rashes that I can’t figure out a cause for.

This isn’t all that uncommon for people with fibromyalgia. But I realized I changed my deodorant around the time I started to feel really bad again. So I changed back to what I was using before. Two days into the change and I feel better than I have in over a week and a half.

I changed my deodorant because it has aluminum in it. And aluminum has been linked with breast cancer and altzheimers. So I was trying to switch to a healthier alternative. But apparently something in the new deodorant doesn’t agree with me. So I’ll have to find a different brand and try again.

One step at a time to a healthier me!

What are you EATING?: had a pineapple and banana shake with spinach and cilantro in it. And beans and tortilla chips for lunch. And a whole bag of carrots as a snack. Carrots are my go to snack if I feel like I need to mindlessly eat.

I know it’s just moving poor eating habits onto a different food but it’s better than nothing. And better than doing that with food that are bad for me like chips or French fries.

Pitfall of the Day: your diet may not be the only thing making you sick. It was really disappointing when, a week into feeling so great, I started to feel terrible again. And it took quite a while to figure out why I was feeling so bad.

Everything you put on your body has just as much of an effect as what you put in it. Your skin is actually the biggest organ of your body. And everything you put on it gets absorbed to at least some extent.

[theramseyloft]

I was right! Bless Molasses' sweet little heart, she couldn't swallow most of the components of her mix! So she'd pick ou the seeds she could manage and just make due. But here is a full, healthy poo the day after making her her own mix of tiny seeds! We'll get you recovered and built up eventually, 'Lass.