we're getting bad again..

☆ Workout tips when u have low motivation ☆

just dance is such a fun workout!! keeps you entertained and you loose weight by dancing, i can keep this up for a couple hours so its quite helpful for me to get me motivated to do more workouts!

just dance is easier however kpop dance workouts are better! ive just done an hour and thirty minutes and i plan to do more, have a good day everyone <3

I'm so sick of pro anas glorifying anorexia by saying how "wonderful" and "lovely" it is to feel empty. This feeling does not last.. there might be a very short "honeymoon phase" with your restrictive ED where you think you're being "strong" and "pure" by starving when you first start losing weight, but it ends.. QUICK. I spent 13 years feeling what they described should make me feel "pure" and "lovely" and I HATED EVERY MOMENT. I was miserable, I developed organ damage, osteopenia, lost a good portion of my hair, my joints and ligaments are destroyed, my face was covered in lanugo, my gums recessed so bad my skull was exposed- clearly that would be painful, and it was- it got so bad I needed expensive, not covered by insurance surgery, which was the beginning of my recovery. Starving is never worth it. Now that I'm in recovery sure I gained weight, but I also gained satiety from food every day multiple times a day (which I can confirm feels better than starving), holidays don't scare me so much anymore, I eat more and exercise less than I have in 13 years and life is so much better. Weight is the least of what I've gained in recovery- I've gained the ability to eat at restaurants, not always know the calories of what I'm eating, a sense of humor (now that I'm not constantly angry/irritable that I feel like shit 24/7), a better relationship with my husband, and all the little joys that food, especially holidays surrounding food, can bring to our lives. If you reach your "ugw" and get diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, it is not an accomplishment. It is a sickness that will destroy your family, other relationships, body, and mind. Recovery or death are the only ways out of anorexia, and as I've recently learned through trial and error, I do not, in fact, want to die. I want to live- to wake up next to the love of my life and my cats, to have at least 3 meals a day so I'm never running on empty; it's amazing. Recovery is worth it, always- anorexia never is. So stop promoting it as some sort of badge of honor; it's not. Recover while you can, because 1/5 of anorexics die- either by starvation or suicide. I've been closer than anyone ever should be to dying of both. Being thin is not the most important thing in life, it really doesn't matter as much as the sickness in your mind convinces you it does. So get better, before your body and mind are so ravaged by your ED that there's no way out anymore.

having a supersize vs super skinny marathon for dinner

TRIGGER WARNING, THIS POST IS ABOUT EATONG DISORDERS!!! KEEP YOURSELVES SAFE!!!!

I'm in my developmental psychology class in college and I am PISSED that my middle AND high school totally misexplain eating disorders!!!!

They always told me anorexia is the "not eating one" and bulimia I'd the "purging/vomiting one" BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE!

Anorexia is categorized but being dangerously underweight, a relentless pursuit of thinness, and a distorted body image

This can be achieved through purging behavior!

This is the one you may hear about having a specific weight criteria

Bulimia can be normal weight or even slightly over!

They are characterized by regular engagement in binge eating episodes followed by purging or compulsory weight loss behavior

Not necessarily vomiting!

They might feel a loss of control around food and will end up trying to "make up" for it by vomiting, laxatives, other medication OR over exercising!

I know high schools and especially middle schools tend to 'dumb down' their information to make it easier for children to learn and to get through enough material but is it really appropriate to dumb down eating disorders?!

Come on!!

I think this is very important for people to know! If you think you may have an eating disorder, including binge eating which I didn't mention in the post bc it is usually taught correctly (or at least it was to me), but please seek help!

There are people who care about you! You matter and there is nothing wrong with your body or your brain!

You are perfect how you are, please don't feel afraid to ask for the help you need!

rose hreidmarr ❦

every time i start missing how my body looked when i had an ed i remember i was scared to eat TOAST 💀💀 like i deadass had NIGHTMARES about eating toast w butter and jam. are u hearing this i was LOSING MY SHIT over TOAST bro 😭😭😭 im not going back to that are you kidding

“wow how did you get so skinny so quickly???”

self hatred & diet coke :)

I have a sad headcanon

So, I was watching “to the bone” that was launched as a Netflix original because I’m working on a Nimona (movie genre) pregnancy fic…

And I’m the movie they cover someone gaining weight and getting her period and getting pregnant and having a miscarriage because she purged.

But, that’s legit the scene I wanted to watch for my story, but the entire movie is very interesting and made me think about the following:

What if Ambrosius suffered from anorexia nervosa?

What anorexia nervosa is you suffer from an eating disorder and you irrationally fear weight gain and through that you throw up what you can because losing weight is better than gaining it.

It’s more common in females in their teens (high schoolers mainly) but it can happen in males as well.

So, what if the fear of being overweight while being a descendant of Gloreth made its mark and as a teen Ambrosius had to be taken out of knight school for a hot minute because he’s so sick.

What if they knew Ambrosius was close friends with Ballister and said that if he didn’t eat, they’d stop letting the two hang out together.

What if after the wall collapsed Ambrosius relapses and gets to below his original starting weight (the lowest he was at when he did his first in-patient stay)

And Ballister tries so hard to help but knows Ambrosius needs help, but he won’t threaten leaving because he knows that won’t do any good.

Just, yeah. I can’t stop thinking about the possibilities of Ambrosius having medical relapses because he’s so stressed about what his life was and now he has control his mind attacks him.

Just… the what if’s are too strong.

October 2001, the esteemed French symphonic black metal pioneers, Anorexia Nervosa, unveiled their magnum opus, "New Obscurantis Order."

This album epitomizes the essence of dark symphonic black metal, featuring fast drumming, profound vocals by RMS, and captivating riffs. It is an absolute imperative for any discerning listener to experience this musical masterpiece.

While certain lyrics may be in French, they pose no obstacle to the overall enjoyment and appreciation of the album.

By: Suzanne Moore

Published: Apr 9, 2024

The alarm bells have been ringing for some time, but now the entire narrative around adolescent gender dysphoria is breaking apart

I remember as a teenager reading about a strange disorder called anorexia. I had never heard of it – and then I noticed one of my best friends cleaning her teeth several times a day and exercising manically. And it wasn’t just her that was acting weirdly. Several girls I knew were clearly suffering. Then came bulimia, which turned the school loos into sad places in which certain girls spent worrying amounts of time.

Then, as a mother of daughters, I remember reading about an epidemic of cutting among teenagers. Surely this highly unusual behaviour was not rampant? Well, the internet told me it was and an NHS psychiatrist informed me about self-harm circles in certain schools. 

These thoughts occur because I am trying to understand how we started talking of “trans children” and thought this was somehow some kind of “progress”. This, after all, is a new phenomenon. In 2010, for instance, with the Equality Act, which made gender reassignment a protected characteristic, the intention was surely to avoid discrimination against adult transsexuals. This is a laudable aim, but no one was talking about children then. The phrase “gender dysphoria” was not bandied about. It was rare to come across a child who had such severe gender issues they needed specialist services. Indeed, in that year, only 75 children were referred to Gids (the NHS’s Gender Identity Development Service, based at the Tavistock Centre in north-west London). By 2021 it was 5,000.

Now we are in a situation where celebrities wear T-shirts saying Protect Trans Kids and where schools, even primary schools, are colluding with the idea that children are whatever they say they are, that their bodies are somehow wrong and that they can change their names without parental consent.

The alarm bells have been ringing for some time about Gids. What was most alarming was this sudden spike in girls presenting with gender dysphoria and the increasing evidence of the harms of puberty blockers.

When Dr Hilary Cass was commissioned to report on standards of care within the NHS, it was as if finally an adult had stepped into the room. She and her team have looked at the evidence and practices that had recently evolved the affirmative model (designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity) and found much wanting. She also signalled the high levels of comorbidities with gender dysphoria. A high proportion of these girls who did not want to be girls were autistic. Many had troubled childhoods or had been in care. Many were gay. All of this resulted in the unravelling of Gids and a ban on puberty blockers.

In the full report, which is due to be published this week, Cass is not only concerned with medical intervention (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgery) but is also expected to come out against “social transition”. Though this is not something that happens within the health service, it is, she says, an “active intervention because it may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of psychological functioning. There are different views on the benefits versus the harms of early social transition… it is not a neutral act and better information is needed about outcomes.”

Some believe that socially transitioning kids will lock them into a gender identity and medical pathway that is detrimental. Cass emphasises that gender expression is indeed fluid and changeable for adolescents and that many may take till their mid-20s to settle. In other words, leave these kids alone.

Indeed, faced with this huge increase in kids saying they are trans, many schools have acquiesced. Yet teachers are not clinicians, nor are they there to diagnose children. Do they understand what they are doing? The entire narrative around trans children has been imported from America, but it is breaking apart.

Those who want to see themselves as compassionate and modern have embraced some seriously dodgy ideas. The evidence against puberty blockers, which were sold as “a pause” and reversible, mounts up. The Mayo Clinic has suggested that these drugs can lead to cancer. There is a court case coming up in Italy, and many predict that once the dam breaks, many who have been prescribed these drugs will sue their doctors. 

This has all been allowed to happen because children have been lied to. They are told they can change sex; they are told that puberty will be awful; they are told they will feel suicidal. Anyone who challenges this has been deemed a pariah. So we end up with newly qualified English teachers now deciding that they are doing the right thing by keeping a child’s fantasy identity secret from their parents.

Many are terrified of this issue and go along with what they must know to be dubious. We have yet to see where the Labour Party will go on this, because it too quakes in front of its own activists. Yet any serious person must address the issues around safeguarding. The gender dysphoric child must be protected, of course, but so must the other kids in the class who have a right to single-sex changing rooms.

Now is the time to step back and ask ourselves how we got here. The trans child is a manifestation of a recent story that the culture has told itself. This is a story of social contagion combined with the genuine distress of mostly young girls.

Children cannot be blamed for acting out, but the adults who have encouraged this, while patting themselves on the back for their progressive views, still need to be challenged. Cass is but the start. 

Does chugging water in the morning help with weight loss?

My friend awhile back told me it does, but she was also like praying on my downfall so like was she trying to make me gain😭😭

if im able to do this, so are you.

Just dont eat like the fucking pig you think you are. You can be skinny if you try. You're just not trying hard enough.

Just dont eat.

yo what do you guys do to keep your electrolyte/ potassium levels up? trying so hard to eat a variety to balance nutrition but my heart still isn’t happy

born to have Bulimia and Anorexia forced to be diagnosed with eating disorder unspecified

fun how you have multiple disorders and they just invalidate you..

we were gonna be dx with exercise bulimia but we have anorexic and bulimic traits (not gonna go into detail) and we just get… EDU/UED… we feel so invalid being fat with an ED is rough!!

the devil works hard but my ed works harder