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This is a discussion on How do you distract yourself? within the Eating Disorder Discussion forums,----- Do any of you guys constantly think about food?
If so, how do ya'll distract yourself? Right now it is ...
If so, how do ya'll distract yourself? Right now it is all I can think about, and I can't distract myself like I normally can. I think I'm gonna scream or go crazy soon if I can't think of anything else.
I have those moment where food/binging consumes my mind...I usually play around on the internet to past time and distract myself, so I chew a lot of gum...It usually makes my tummy feel 'blah' which makes me not want to put food in it
I'm one of those girls that ALWAYS anticipates her next meal...it's kinda whacked I'm always looking at the clock and as soon as it hits the 2-hour mark, BAM I'm upstairs eating something, LOL!
I get hungry even between meals sometimes, but if this happens I just drink tons of water...or if it's at night, I drink water with a little metamucil. Does the trick.
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"It's funny...the harder I train and better I eat.....the better my genetics seem to get." - G. Diesel
If you could look in my head these would be things you would see:
food,
sex,
some snippet of a song
and doggies (if one passes me by),
oh & of course some sort of worry or two which leads to thinking of food.
Haha maybe I need to learn to distract myself from food. I do think abut it alot but my meals are pretty much planned eat every 2.5- 3 hours. I have a pop up reminder at work or I will get busy and forget and binge on something later. I drink alot of water sometimes that helps and when I am eating at a deficit I tend to drink some psyillum hust with a few meals to stave off hunger pangs.
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I'm one of those girls that ALWAYS anticipates her next meal...it's kinda whacked I'm always looking at the clock and as soon as it hits the 2-hour mark, BAM I'm upstairs eating something, LOL!
I get hungry even between meals sometimes, but if this happens I just drink tons of water...or if it's at night, I drink water with a little metamucil. Does the trick.
Pfft, I start getting anxiety WHILE I'M EATING just thinking about having to stop eat and waiting to eat again. Now that's what I call nuts.
WHY DOES FOOD HAVE TO TASTE SO GOOD??
Tea saved my life though, tea+stevia=me being able to wait
I'm one of those girls that ALWAYS anticipates her next meal...it's kinda whacked I'm always looking at the clock and as soon as it hits the 2-hour mark, BAM I'm upstairs eating something, LOL!
I get hungry even between meals sometimes, but if this happens I just drink tons of water...or if it's at night, I drink water with a little metamucil. Does the trick.
Good to know I'm not the only one staring at the clock!!!
Okay, this may sound corny, but lately I've tried to distract myself by thinking or writing down what's going through my head. And surprise, surprise, more often than not, my need to binge has been triggered by something that happened earlier. Once I'm able to figure out what triggered the "binge button", then I can talk to myself about why eating won't help the problem go away. My hope is that this self-analysis stuff will help me keep the binges at bay long term. If I dig deep enough, I find all kinds of stuff throughout my life that caused me to binge. Maybe I should just get a punching bag and take out my aggressions on that...maybe it would stop some of the binging...who knows?
Okay, this may sound corny, but lately I've tried to distract myself by thinking or writing down what's going through my head. And surprise, surprise, more often than not, my need to binge has been triggered by something that happened earlier. Once I'm able to figure out what triggered the "binge button", then I can talk to myself about why eating won't help the problem go away. My hope is that this self-analysis stuff will help me keep the binges at bay long term. If I dig deep enough, I find all kinds of stuff throughout my life that caused me to binge. Maybe I should just get a punching bag and take out my aggressions on that...maybe it would stop some of the binging...who knows?
Thats not corny at all...its incredible that you are taking that approach! There is a reason we binge and we have to get to the bottom of it to stop it. Thats a huge reason I started to keep a journal...to fix the problem, you have to find the cause.
How do you distract yourself?
I'm always looking at the clock and as soon as it hits the 2-hour mark, BAM I'm upstairs eating something, LOL!
Good to know I'm not the only one staring at the clock!!!
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