*~^How about a check-in^~*
Find a Conversation
*~^How about a check-in^~*
| Fri, 08-06-2004 - 5:19pm |
How is everybody doing? Please check in, share what's going on with you, and how I/we can help (if possible).
Kristina
PMSing but not letting it get to me so far
Emotionally feeling good
Love & hugs, Kristina
The opinions I have expressed here are from my own experience and are not intended as medical advice or to take the place of your own physician's advice.

Hugs, Michelle
It's not the speed, but the distance.
I'm doing ok. i had a really rough day on friday and i haven't been able to figure out why. then this weekend i drank quite a lot, and didn't intend to. so i feel like i've wasted a weekend and here i am on monday morning, at a job i don't like at all. i guess what i'm feeling is disappointed in myself. also my therapist is out of town this weekend so there's another week to go before my next therapy session, and i may be nervous about that. but i'm still plugging along.
glad to see the boards picking up a bit :)
Other than that, I'm doing well. Last weekend I celebrated my 23rd b-day and ate far too much b-day cake, but I managed to keep it down. I decided that moderate exercise was a better solution! Right now I'm going to go sit outside and read some more of a new book I just bought, Confessions of a Shopaholic. It's so beautiful outside I just have to take advantage of it!
Ooh, something I just thought of.. are there any good novels about people over coming EDs? I tried to find some in the library, but nothing really caught my eye. I obviously found self-help books and such, but I'm looking more for a novel (fiction). let me know if you've read anything at all:)
Thanks!
Steph
as far as books about ED goes...most of the novels i know are either kind of childish, 70s-ish, and teen-oriented, or else don't offer much hope (i.e., the person with the ED dies).
the memoirs of survivors are better, in my opinion. try:
Inner Hunger: A Young Woman's Struggle through Anorexia and Bulimia by Marianne Apostolides
Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher (many people really like this one because she speaks very plainly and angrily about her eating problems. however she is not recovered at the end, and some people also find this book triggering)
Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery by Lindsey Hall and Leigh Cohn has some memoirs of bulimia at the beginning, with about half of the book dedicated to a recovery plan that worked for the author.
i find books that point out the hypocrisy and rampant exploitation of the diet industry most helpful when i need to read something to inspire my recovery. the ones i've liked are:
Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in Today's Weight-Obsessed World by Frances M. Berg
No Fat Chicks: How Big Business Profits by Making Women Hate Their Bodies-and how to Fight Back by Terry Poulton
Losing It: America's Obsession with Weight and the Industry That Feeds on It by Laura Fraser
Today is going well. The last time I wrote I was upset and sick of being a bulimic. Well, the good news is that I have made a few minor changes and they have been working. I run a trail by my apartment with my dog everyother day and I am trying to work up the courage to head to the gym, but at least I am running and enjoying some time outside.
I have a couple of worries. One deals with my bf he is a diabetic and had been overstressed and working alot, but not eating. He isnt one to watch his glocuse level. I get worried about him and how he is doing. Sometimes I feel like I should be doing more, but at the same time I realize that in a way that I have no place to talk to him hwen I have spent about 2 years mistreating my body. I think in a couple of days when I have everything sort out.. IE my feelings. I will talk to him about it. He knows I am trying to improve myself, so maybe that will help him realize what he is doing to himself.
The second deals with the fact that I am 3 weeks late. I know that running and having an ED causing misperiods, but I worry about the fact that I had a football size tumor removed over one ovary and I lost it and now I am 3 weeks late. Kinda freaks me out. I always end up freaking out and nothing was wrong.
Does anyone else alaways jump to the biggest worst conclusion about certain things all the time?
Also, I need some help with soemthing. I think planning out meals would be great for me. But I can't seem to get at elast three meals set. See, I work from 7 to 1 or from 7 to 6pm. I do not know if I should eat before I leave to go to work in the morning or if I should eat at work ( I work at a Vet. Hospital). Usually, I try to come home from work and go workout. This way I feel upbeat and healthy. Work can kinda get me down. I was wondering wht you guys thought about it. I am sure that some of you plan out meals and I was wondering how you did it and what you thought of my situation.
Thanks again for the help and support.
Meg
As for lunch and dinner, I packed lunch so even if I didn't get a break i could nibble a bit. And dinner after a walk/run wiht the dog sounds great! Anyother help you may need on setting up a meal plan, etc... just let me know! I have alot of experience!
Alexis