I have realised Tabitha in the nicest way I’ve stopped watching your videos - I have no interest it in anymore. Now that I’m a much more stable weight - my interest in all things eating disorders is going 😊 I still don’t like my body but I’m also not obsessed with this sort of content so thank you 🎉
Hahaha I left treatment weighing my freaking meat. I was nutty when I came home with weighing and portioning and sticking to my meal plan, it was what I learned while at residential treatment. I thought it was the only way. So glad to be done with all that craziness. Never again!!!! Tabitha is exactly correct, as always!
Thank you for saying this. I always felt like meal plans limited me or I had to do it a specific way and follow more rules. Didn’t feel natural or normal, especially when you’re dealing with extreme hunger, etc.
Oh my God this is so true. I found treatment so awful. They had to on a plan and only eat what was on plan. If you ate something different then what was on the plan we got in trouble or if we are more too we got in trouble. They say we were binging then. It was so awful. Not helpful at all. It was you that saved me not them. I Thankyou so much 😊
I HATED EXCHANGES! mine was based on choosing w items as long as 1 was a carb. Still felt limited, but I liked it over exchanges. Still had odd rules in treatment though.
Exchanges are common with diabetes, and have been for eons. For some of us with eating disorders and diabetes, the exchanges are a constant. I'm in the middle of another relapse at 59 (and getting help), and because of diabetes and kidney disease, I have to watch everything- and will for the rest of my life. It's incredibly difficult to have to pay attention to "numbers" while knowing that numbers are part of the problem (at the surface)- but at the same time, I know how to plan and what will keep my blood sugars and kidney function as stable as they can be. It's just part of being responsible for what I can be- and it's not easy. It'd be great to just eat for the sake of eating. Not there yet- and while I'm using a more relaxed type of exchanges (per my therapist, who has the final word on food for now) but still have to weigh everything to know protein and carb counts. Exchanges are still a sense of order with food that most 'normal' people will never have to deal with. I guess for me, it's something that has been 'safe' since I was diagnosed with diabetes many, many years ago (and earlier as I worked as a RN) that helps me. For those who don't have to deal with that, I can see why it'd be annoying. It's annoying to have to shoot myself with insulin 4 times a day, but that's another thing that I have to do... health isn't always about what's easy and less hassle, and everyone has their own combination of things to contend with.
