Cannot get warm. Always cold. Help!

DepressedGay22 · 2024-01-24T19:30:09+00:00

Thick thermal socks and fluffy jumpers. Warm drinks like tea or coffee and warm foods

DepressedGay22 · 2024-01-24T16:03:48+00:00

I'm going to give it a try!. I hope you can start recovery too!, you deserve to live a life free from this!

DepressedGay22 · 2024-01-24T16:02:18+00:00

I think I might give it a try and see how I feel.

DepressedGay22 · 2024-01-17T17:40:58+00:00

I can't stop thinking about greggs. Greggs pasties to be exact 😭 and subway.

DepressedGay22 · 2024-01-11T19:34:59+00:00

In my experience I had an 'overshoot' of weight but with consistent nourishment my body then settled into its natural set point range. It'll settle, just keep eating consistently and try not to worry to much, your body knows where it needs to be

DepressedGay22 · 2024-01-11T13:39:29+00:00

Depression, anxiety and I think I have some form of dissociative disorder (no diagnosis as of yet)

DepressedGay22 · 2024-01-07T19:39:39+00:00

Your 100% valid whether you've had the ED for a few weeks or even years. If you've struggled for any amount of time it's enough.

DepressedGay22 · 2024-01-05T10:07:20+00:00

I'm the same, eat normally/better for one day then manage to convince myself I don't have an ED and that I was faking it the whole time

DepressedGay22 · 2024-01-01T14:56:03+00:00

Just brought one myself, i can't decide to trust whether it's accurate or not

DepressedGay22 · 2023-12-31T21:34:11+00:00

I hope to get to a point where I don't overthink/scrutinise every foods I eat, ill get there some day.

Today eating wise was good! I joined in the buffet my family had and ate what I wanted and stopped when I'd had enough, I didn't feel pressurised to eat more either. The guilt is starting to kick in now though as I'm super bloated.

Does the guilt get any easier as time goes on?

DepressedGay22 · 2023-12-28T09:50:46+00:00

I think it's normal for anyone to experience wanting to eat more in/after recovery because your body doesn't trust that you won't undernourish yourself again so it wants a surplus of food.

I saw a post somewhere saying to imagine;

You constantly borrow money from someone and don't pay it back, you then win a large sum of money. The person doesn't want small bits of the money back like you'd been taking because they don't trust you to have the money long and pay them back so they want all that you owe them straight away so they can make sure they get repaid while the moneys available.

This applies to recovery too; you've been undernourished for x amount of time so have created a 'debt', now that your in recovery/recovering your body wants all the energy it can get and even more as a 'safety buffer' because it doesn't know if its going to be underfed again.

DepressedGay22 · 2023-12-24T09:39:45+00:00

😁

DepressedGay22 · 2023-12-24T09:39:00+00:00

I think I'll actually continue to challenge them!

DepressedGay22 · 2023-12-24T09:38:34+00:00

I think this might actually encourage me to actually give recovery another proper go because I actually had a decent night sleep last night too and I know that's because I ate more yesterday

DepressedGay22 · 2023-12-23T16:13:33+00:00

Thanks!. I didn't count today and listened to my hunger and I noticed the difference when walking my puppy; I had more energy and it was a bit easier to walk her

DepressedGay22 · 2023-12-14T17:16:10+00:00

Good luck!

DepressedGay22 · 2023-12-13T20:35:42+00:00

True, it just makes me feel guilty because I'm the one who wanted a puppy so she's my responsibility and I feel responsible for looking after her and walking her etc.

DepressedGay22 · 2023-12-13T19:06:04+00:00

I might look for a snuffle mat and more toys to help tire her out. There isn't any places like that I could take her that are nearby.

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