i really want edtwt to talk more about extreme hunger, not only during recovery but also while still actively engaging in your eating disorder. it’s such a complex phenomena it has to be normalised
my experience with extreme mental and physical hunger as someone suffering from an eating disorder pt. 1
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food/ meals i ate during extreme hunger pt. 1
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a thread for edtwt🧵 likes & retweets are appreciated
ps: these are all from me still actively engaging in my eating disorder. please keep in mind that the best ana doesn’t exist and we can’t always restrict and starve
food/ meals i ate during extreme hunger pt. 2
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ps: these are all from me still actively engaging in my eating disorder. please keep in mind that the best ana doesn’t exist and we can’t always restrict and starve
so im thinking about posting a thread of food i ate during extreme hunger both in recovery (i didn’t know what extreme hunger was back then) and even now (while still actively engaging in my disorder) when i seriously can’t resist the urges anymore (because it is normal !!)
because it’s so so awful. i can pretty easily resist physical hunger but the mental hunger is the worst thing to happen to me. i think about food 24/7. my entire world revolves around food. i can’t escape it.
food/ meals i ate during extreme hunger pt. 3
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ps: these are all from me still actively engaging in my eating disorder. please keep in mind that the best ana doesn’t exist and we can’t always restrict and starve
my tiktok fyp is full of mukbangs, wieiad, triggering recovery videos, taste tests, cooking and baking videos. i can’t even watch tiktok’s next to other people anymore because it’s embarrassing how everything is around food
pastry/ bakery items. personally i crave bakery items and pastry the most. as someone that lives in germany its literal torture to walk through the streets
my extreme mental hunger usually starts in the night. while i suffer a lot from restriction insomnia, i mostly do fall asleep after some time. but when my mental hunger is too extreme i don’t sleep at all. not a single second cuz i can only think about food. i often start crying
here are a few examples of lunches i made for my mom. and every time i want to eat them myself so bad but seeing my mom loving my food really makes me happy. i hope that i genuinely have a love for cooking and it will stay even if i one day might hopefully recover
same with my instagram explore page and youtube homepage. i delete everything but because i keep watching them over and over again they keep getting recommended like a plague
back to the not so pretty parts again… i go on walks to the supermarket and take pictures of food i dream to eat but only leave the market with either nothing or yet again my three safe foods
fyi: i’ve been diagnosed with an-r when i was a very young teenager, recovered and then relapsed 2 years ago in 2022. ever since ive been constantly restricting but my mental and extreme hunger genuinely got unbearable in september 2023
i need to be around food 24/7. not only on social media but in real life as well. i cook for my family so that i can be confronted with food without actually eating it. it also occupies my mind so that time passes faster. i get super angry if someone in my family
i usually can’t eat in public. part of my ed is being ashamed of eating. but when i have eh i eat a lot outside because i can’t go a second without food as im a bottomless pit
im writing my paper about a book focusing on consumer culture, feminism and eating disorders. im doing that so that i can still be around food and disordered thoughts even while working on my university project.
i do eat sour dough bread even when restricting, but i always use the tiniest slices and low cal toppings so i add reaaaal good stuff when i have extreme hunger
also i know that there’s this stereotype of people with ed’s cooking super fattening food for others but for me it’s the opposite? i make extremely nutritious foods for my family. they’re not necessarily low cal because i use healthy fats, good carbs and protein sources etc
99% of the time i go for sweet and sugary food so this part will include a lot of sugar
all you can eat buffets are a heaven, tho this wasn’t the same day
im a literature student in my last year and currently writing my bachelor thesis. obviously restricting gives me brain fog and the mental hunger wont allow me to concentrate. so its really hard for me to even slightly focus. that’s why i even chose a disordered bachelor thesis
i often avoid meeting my friends because im scared of triggering my extreme hunger. here’s an example of me eating with my friend who knows i have an ed. not once has she judged me. i explained eh to her
the difference between us disordered people and normal people is that they usually honour it by eating their mental cravings. we try to resist is as long as we can. but im here to tell you that no one can do that. or idc if there’s a person that can. i can’t. im still anorexic
this thread is coming to its limits so i will focus on the combination of mental and physical hunger in a second part but i thought it would be really important to even understand the mental aspect at first and if you recognise yourself in these behaviours
since this is doing numbers im gonna make a more detailed thread on how extreme hunger feels. how to differentiate it from binge eating and how you !! should !! not !! feel !! ashamed !!
i really want edtwt to talk more about extreme hunger, not only during recovery but also while still actively engaging in your eating disorder. it’s such a complex phenomena it has to be normalised
and mental hunger is just as important as physical hunger. if your friend is craving a snickers, you don’t tell them to not eat it or replace it by a cucumber right? i highlighted the last part cuz it’s really important to understand. everyone can experience mental hunger
went to a healthy poke bowl restaurant with my mom that lets you build your own bowl + see the nutritional info which is why i chose this place. it was super delicious and made me feel good 🫶🏻
she’s not an almond mom that poor woman has full blown anorexia but let’s play it down because she’s a grown up right and grown ups can’t have eating disorders right 👍🏻
Habits I have noticed from my Eastern European bmi 16 almond mom
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since this is doing numbers im gonna make a more detailed thread on how extreme hunger feels. how to differentiate it from binge eating and how you !! should !! not !! feel !! ashamed !!
@59calz
hope you never get to the point of being so underweight a literal cucumber will make you look 9 months pregnant ❤️ walking is not gonna fix that
@brownie_edtwt
sorry but that’s not 44cals. the cals are provided for the cooked noodles, not the uncooked. and since cooked it weighs much more it’s uh,, a lot more than 44
im desperate so im gonna do an introduction lmao i want moots edtwt and orthotwt
- 23
- ana + ortho
- not new but new acc cuz my irls know about my old one (rip)
- rt or like for moots
@prttykttykals
yes i know the struggle of not being able to tell if it’s a binge or not but i can tell you it’s not a binge in a sense of binge eating disorder. it’s extreme hunger, a symptom of your disorder just like idk hair loss is a system
here we have some savoury meals. all the time i prepare my moms food i get so jealous and on these extreme hunger days i actually made them for myself 😭
@eur1a
honey is always usually in a 300-350 (at most) range. if you want u could go for 320 but keep in mind how healthy honey is so whether it’s 300 or 350 ur body won’t notice that few calories
@oobaay
i’m so sorry i get this so much. mentally and physically. please make sure to drink a lot of tea and give yourself some rest. it’s not a binge, it’s eh
lw faces trigger me so much more than lw bodies like those recovery videos and their faces are so,, god im so triggered cuz im ✨blessed✨ with big checks :))
@angel_will_die
please keep in mind that the so called “binge” is extreme hunger i know you feel guilty but it’s a natural reaction and you should not be angry at yourself/ your body for trying to save yourself from dying angel