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- seijuul
- Date posted
- 4y ago
- Username
- tiger1111tiger1111
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Change the image to your cells doing a happy dance when you make healthy choices.
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- seijuulseijuul
- Date posted
- 4y ago
this is such a cute idea!! i’ll definitely think about that :) thank you!
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- ThreeLittleBirdsThreeLittleB...
- Date posted
- 4y ago
When my ocd first kicked off I was so stressed that I couldn’t stomach eating more than a few bites of food, my body was in survival mode and food just wasn’t a priority. Then when I started eating again it triggered intrusive thoughts. In order to beat this you have to reduce your stress level so you’re able to get an appetite and if you have any foods that are specifically difficult to eat it’s important to keep trying to eat those foods.
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- nerdlenerdle
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Your so right reducing my stress level really helped me with this also I didn't realize you should just keep eating the foods that feel triggering
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- ThreeLittleBirdsThreeLittleB...
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@nerdle This sounds silly but I used to have intrusive thoughts of penises when I’d eat carrots or open my mouth wide for any large foods. And when I’d take a sip from a drink I recently walked away from my ocd would tell me that someone SPIT in it. It was revolting and I lost 23lbs because of this. Eating was extremely difficult for me in the beginning.
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- FrogsFrogs
- Date posted
- 4y ago
How about yogurt and gatoraid. That is what got me through some awful times.
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- nerdlenerdle
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I don't know if this is a good solution or not but about 4 years ago I would have unpleasant images while I ate and it's always make me spit food up in a napkin and I would really try to do it lo key because it would happen around eating with people to and I love to eat that's what I found weird about it I totally lost weight during that time to. What helped is I just started avoiding food textures that would bring those thoughts about I'm really all about the textures and also I stopped overally caring about me doing that and would just spit a piece of food out when I wanted instead of over analyzing it and it actually did help and I'm back to my normal eating self
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- seijuulseijuul
- Date posted
- 4y ago
what would you suggest to do when i only have one food left that i can eat, after avoiding textures that set me off like that?
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- nerdlenerdle
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Just think of there's any textured food that will not make u have unpleasant images like something super neutral like if u have to avoid chewy meats or meat or lettuce or breads whatever it is just do so
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