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One week, I guess from looking at my last post. Back at work which helps a lot. Canāt eat in the middle of a class!
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Day 0 again after binging yesterday 
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Day 1488 : No binge today. 
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Day 5 no binge. Meal prep helps a ton, and having quick and easy healthy options if I donāt feel like prepping. Canned soup, salad kits, frozen burritos, are my go-tos. Current issue is eating stuff in the break room, lots of holiday leftover sweets and we also have basically a bodega that has lots of snacks. My lunch usually lives in that room which is what leads to problems ā but Iām thinking I can just keep it in the car instead since itās below freezing out. Also I went to a small art gallery opening thing tonight, and my dinner was one slice of pizza and a small piece of cake. And there was a lot of other food there too! So that felt good.
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@Misokatsu Keeping busy is a good strategy 
@Jana1988 Sorry to hear that. Be kind to yourself. Listen to what you need, to what you can do for yourself. Itās a long journey 
@Passerina_cyanea Meal planning, a good grocery list and meal prep are my absolute corner stone. Especially when you are surrounded by so many triggering places.
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Oh yeah, I keep meaning to meal plan. Do you use an app or just write it out?
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TBH at this point itās almost automatic. I have a system of generic meal-templates I cycle through the week. So when I write the grocery list I already know what I need for the next week, so I only need to look what needs refilled. Everything else is on auto-pilot.
At the beginning though I wrote up my plans in simple notes on paper or my phone. They changed with time and at some point I got to the place I am at.
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Day 1489 : No binge today.
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Thatās great to hear, I appreciate it. As long as I eat food from my house I pretty much have 2-3 options for each meal. I donāt mind eating the same thing every day. Itās going out to eat or running out of food or being bored at work that gets me in trouble!!
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@Passerina_cyanea Yeah, these are challenging situations. But you can work on those. With meal planning you should have food stocked at home. The boredom thing is tricky. But itās a habit. So you could work on developing a different habit when bored. Changing habits takes a while, but with the steps you are taking you are on a good way.
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Continuing my streak! No binge yesterday. I got some takeout and thatās often a bad idea for me, but I was able to not eat too much of it and saved enough for my partner to have some and for me to have for lunch today.
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Day 1490 : No binge today.
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@Passerina_cyanea Sounds like a successfull day!
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Good morning everyone and happy Saturday
I got a nice Xmas present from my lovely mum 
- a 2025 diary where is for each day a question to think about and answer. Then there are 5 different spaces to fill the answer (each space for different year), so you will see how your answers for the same questions are changing (or not) over years.
e.g. 14 February What is your Valentineās story
The question for today was āAre you living your life fully?ā
I didnāt have to think too long to know that I donāt. Not at all. I realised how much time I spend in my head, constantly thinking about this eating disorder and about my body and how it should look like, how much time I spend checking myself in a mirror and being unsatisfied with my appearance. Itās such a waste of my life to live in that small square created from restrictive thoughts. I felt trapped.
But this question opened my eyes wider and I can see the bigger picture nowā¦ I donāt want to live like this anymore. I donāt want to worry about what and when I eat, then I fail anyway all the time, every day is a failure at the end of it, and Iām so tired of it, because itās overtaking my life!
The other day I refused to pick up the phone when my mum called because I was too busy preparing myself for binge. Yesterday would be the same, but it was her bāday so I just accepted that I wonāt binge. I felt like if the call was burden, but after it I felt it was lovely and I enjoyed calling my mum This food obsession and binging and thinking about it is destroying me and my values. I canāt let it happen.
And so again Iām going to try to give deeper meaning to my work on myself and involve some fun into it. Overthink less and live more.
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Day 1491 : No binge today.
And I wish you the best of luck! You can do it, @Jana1988! 
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@Jana1988 There is no time like now to start 
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@acromouse @Aleyadaisey Thank you very much for support and encouraging words 
Live fully. I tried yesterday which brought me to a question what living fully actually means? Firstly I imagined that itās being outside and having adventures, but soon I realised that life doesnāt work like this - that itās probably impossible to feel excited all time. There are responsibilities I have which arenāt always exactly what I want to do, but it needs to be done and I canāt say Iām not living fully because Iām getting stuff done. There are moments when Iām a bit bored but at the same time I donāt feel like doing anything, that could be easily specified like not living fully and like missing out on doing something more useful. Sometimes itās just too cold for me to go out there and ālive fullyā. I canāt force it. I donāt want to do stuff for sake of doing it - to tick a box without even enjoying it.
And so I came to a conclusion that for me living fully simply means to be at a present moment. Nothing else - nothing more or less. Just to be and to know that I am. Taking every breath with a gratitude for this moment which I live, because I live and that alone is so beautiful There is so much to be grateful for at this moment 
Itās almost a relief to know that I donāt have to plan excessively and break my bank account to live my life and feel fulfilled, because I already have everything I need
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Day 1492 : No binge today.
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Really like that one! Mindfulness and compassion meditation helped me a lot with that.
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