Bonnie Wishes to be Beautiful

Bad day.

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:42:57 -0400

Ate chilli that my boyfriend made last night for breakfast. Didn’t eat all of it, but felt really guilty for eating at all. Purged almost straight away, but I don’t know if I got much of it up. I did eat it with HEAPS of water, so I couldn’t tell if it was just mixed in with the water really well, or whether I was throwing up just some of the food with mostly water. I did purge until I wasn’t getting anything else up, but I still felt like I could feel food in my stomach so idk. Felt guilty later for purging, but also for having eaten, which doesn’t even make sense. Haven’t had anything for the rest of the day except water, peppermint tea, and a small hot chocolate (skim milk, cocoa powder, artificial sweetener.) I feel bad about the hot chocolate, and I also feel bad about feeling bad for eating, because that’s just absurd.

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Thu, 17 May 2012 19:57:35 -0400

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Thu, 17 May 2012 19:49:40 -0400

healthiie: What is Binge Eating Disorder? Binge Eating Disorder...

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:47:05 -0400

healthiie:

What is Binge Eating Disorder?

Binge Eating Disorder is the most common kind of ED. Its characterized by:

Frequently eating unusually large amounts of food

Feeling out of control, unable to stop eating once a binge has started

Hiding the amount of food eaten & binging in private

Feeling embarrassed and shameful of the amount of food eaten

Eating when not hungry and to the point of physical pain and nausea

Feelings of depression and worthlessness

Rapid weight gain (although not all people who suffer from BED are overweight)

Unlike anorexia or bulimia, there’s usually no attempt to reverse the calories taken in. People with BED do sometimes purge (make themselves vomit), but usually to make room for more food or to alleviate stomach pain from eating too much.

What are the first steps to moving forward from Binge Eating Disorder?

Stop, take a deep breath, and acknowledge that what you’re putting your body through isn’t healthy. Acknowledge that you deserve better. Decide you want to treat your body and mind better.

Talk to someone about it. Tell your closest friend, family member, or whoever you trust. If you have access to a therapist or counselor, use them! Consider looking into Overeaters Anonymous. OA is free, private, and very nonjudgmental.

Make a recovery blog. Be anonymous if you want, but even updating it once a week with your thoughts and progress can help a lot. Be honest, even if its hard. There are thousands of fitblrs, recovery blogs, and other people struggling with the same thing you are. Take advantage of the free support. Reblog anything that inspires and motivates you. Submerging yourself in a culture of recovery, even online, will help keep you in the mindset you want.

Keep a simple journal. Write down when you binged, what you ate, what you were feeling, and what led up to it. Be totally honest with it. This will help you recognize patterns & help you avoid them in the future.

What Can I Change in My Day to Day Life?

Plan, plan, plan. BED is chaos. Add structure to your eating habits to help regulate them. When you’re feeling motivated, make a meal plan for your week. It doesn’t have to be ultra healthy. You don’t even have to count calories. Just pick some things that you think your body would appreciate. Try to include a source of protein, a grain, and some veggies/fruit in each meal. Don’t make the meals too small. Include a snack or two. It doesn’t have to be perfect. The point of this isn’t to lose weight yet, just to get your body used to eating normal amounts at normal times. Once you have your meal plan, turn it into a shopping list. Go to the store and buy ONLY whats on the list. No exceptions. Cook and separate what you buy into ready to grab meals. If that seems like too much, just do what you feel capable of and try to increase the structure as you go. Baby steps are still steps.

If you’re not planning on buying anything while you’re out, don’t bring your debit card. Keep a small amount of cash for emergencies in your glove compartment or tucked away in your purse. If your money isn’t easily accessible, you can’t buy a ton of junk while you’re out.

Put pretty notes/reminders on your fridge or cabinets. “Are you really hungry?”, “Is it time to eat?”, “There are other things to do when you’re bored”, “Count to 100” or a personal reason you chose to recover.

Be mindful while eating. Don’t watch TV or scroll through tumblr while you’re eating. Pay attention to how your body feels and if youre full. You’ll enjoy your food more, and learn your body’s specific needs.

Try to eat with others.

Keep food in one room of your house. Eat in one room of your house. Don’t eat in bed, on a couch, or at a desk.

What Can I Do Instead of Binging?

Paint your nails with a bunch of coats. Keep it wet by using lots of layers. Check out some nail art and try to imitate it. You’ll get distracted by the cool designs and the wet paint makes you ultra aware of what your hands are doing. Its also harder to reach your hands into bags etc

Drink cold water or hot tea. As you sip, feel it in your body.

Try yoga. You absolutely don’t have to be fit or skinny to do basic yoga. Your body will thank you, and it will calm you down. Click here for a list of free yoga videos.

Take a bath. Use bubbles, candles, whatever. Treat yourself like a princess and relax.

Go for a walk around the block. It doesn’t have to be a long walk. Just enough to stretch your legs and get out of the house.

Make yourself a glitter jar. Shake, stare, relax.

Play a game. Try one of those free for an hour download games or get into a game on your phone.

Go for a drive. Blast your music, sing along, and let it alllll out.

Watch a good stand up comedian on youtube

Clean. If youre living in shit, you’ll feel like shit.

Do something you need to do. Homework, updating your calender, organizing your purse/binder, laundry, etc. You’ll gain a sense of accomplishment, relieve stress associated with having unfinished tasks, and distract yourself from wanting to binge.

Check out autogenics or progressive muscle relaxation

Call someone and vent

Journal

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Thu, 17 May 2012 19:44:46 -0400

God these are inspiring! I think the left is whereabouts I...

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:43:40 -0400

God these are inspiring! I think the left is whereabouts I currently am, and the right is where I’d like to be!

makemeskinny: love this

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:41:31 -0400

makemeskinny:

love this

Reblog if i'm allowed to go to your ask box and be bestfriends with you.

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:40:51 -0400

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Thu, 17 May 2012 19:37:12 -0400

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:35:59 -0400

Lol Tumblrbot, I was so excited to possibly have an actual question from a human-being! My earliest memory is being at the markets, where my Aunty used to run a stall. I remember sitting in the grass, and I was wearing this dress that sort of flaired out around me when I sat cross legged. I remember eating a sausage sandwich, and watching a man with a little dog walking past. Not an exceptionally interesting memory, but it’s still the first thing I can remember. I think I must have been about three.

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Wed, 16 May 2012 20:26:59 -0400

1. Catch the running bug. You’ll continue to burn fat after...

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:26:35 -0400

1. Catch the running bug. You’ll continue to burn fat after your jog: People who run for at least four hours a week melt more calories than non-runners, even when they’re not running, a Yale University School of Medicine study reports.

2. Crank it up early. Working out harder during the first half of your workout and taking it easier during the second burns up to 23 percent more fat than doing the opposite, according to a study from The College of New Jersey.

3 & 4. Go hard — and make it quick. Staying at 80 percent of your max heart rate for 40 minutes can amp your metabolism for 19 hours afterward, research published in Obesity notes. And doing a shorter workout at 75 percent of your max aerobic capacity will give you a greater metabolic boost than sweating longer at 50 percent, a Colorado State University reveals.

5 to 7. Lift dumbbells … slowly. More muscle equals mega metabolism boost. Strength training can help you trim major fat, research reveals — and doing super-slow (versus normal speed) reps increases strength by 50 percent.

Plus, using dumbbells activates more muscle fibers than using machines, explains Gregory Haff, Ph.D., an associate professor in the exercise physiology department at West Virginia University.

8. Speed up, slow down. Alternating bouts of high-intensity and low-intensity cardio has been shown to torch pounds.

9. Put on weight (literally). Wearing a weighted vest (about 10 percent of your body weight) while walking can boost your calorie burn by 8 percent.

10. Download Rihanna, not Brahms. Listening to up-tempo songs actually makes you run faster and harder than listening to slower-paced music, British scientists say.

11. Let kettlebells ring. Not only does working out with kettlebells build muscle, but doing it for 20 minutes burns as many calories as running at a 6-minute-mile pace for the same amount of time.

12. Keep it up. As few as 80 minutes a week of aerobic or weight training helps keep you from regaining belly fat after losing weight, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

13. Add poles. Use Nordic poles while you walk, and you’ll burn 20 percent more calories, says research from The Cooper Institute in Dallas.

14 & 15. Lift first, nix the rest. Doing strength training before cardio can torch more fat than cardio alone. And if you do one move after another without pausing, “you’ll see more gains in strength and muscle mass,” says Dr. Pierre Manfroy, M.D., consultant for the book “100 Ways to Supercharge Your Metabolism.”

16. Add pounds. Lift heavier weights for fewer reps to make your workout more intense — and burn more fat — Manfroy says.

17. Try aromatherapy. Exercisers who inhaled strawberry and buttered-popcorn scents torched more calories than those who sniffed neutral odors, according to research from the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.

18. Box yourself in. Wii boxing knocks out nearly twice as many calories as some other games, like Wii golf.

19. Kick it. Playing soccer not only torches more fat and builds more muscle than jogging, but it feels less tiring, Danish research reveals.

20. Stay in shape. Fit people have more fat-burning metabolites in their blood than couch potatoes do, scientists say.

IN THE KITCHEN

22. Get more protein. Eating a protein-packed breakfast and lunch helps you burn more post-meal fat than if you eat lower-protein meals, according to Australian research.

23 & 24. Guzzle green tea — or coffee. Downing five 5-ounce cups of green tea a day boosts metabolism, says Lyssie Lakatos, R.D., author of “Fire Up Your Metabolism.” Two cups of coffee will also do the trick, one study shows.

25. Have an omelet. Eating two eggs for breakfast while dieting will help you trim more weight and body fat than if you ate the same amount of calories noshing on a bagel, scientists say.

26. Stay above 1,200 calories… ”The average person’s body goes into starvation mode if she eats fewer than 1,200 calories a day,” says Eric Berg, author of “The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.” “That’s stress, and stress creates more belly fat.”

27. … and cut calories gradually. If you diet, don’t trim more than 250 calories a day. Cutting calories too quickly slows your metabolism down, Dr. Manfroy says.

28 to 33. Munch on these. Almonds, cherries, yogurt, grapefruit, whole grains, and spicy foods have all been shown to torch fat.

34. Fuel up right. Eating a low-glycemic-index breakfast (such as muesli and peaches) will help you burn more fat during a subsequent workout than eating a high-glycemic-index meal (like waffles), researchers from the University of Nottingham reveal.

35. Think before you drink. Sipping as few as 90 calories’ worth of vodka can slow your metabolism by 73 percent, one study shows.

36. Graze. Women who go without eating for long periods are more likely to have higher body-fat percentages than women who nosh more regularly, one study notes.

37. Dine like a Greek. Eating a diet rich in monounsaturated fat (think olive oil, avocados) can help trim both weight and fat, research published in the British Journal of Nutrition shows.

38. Stop gorging. Your body can only handle so much food at a time, so stick to 600 calories or less per meal to maximize fat-burning, says Leslie Cooper, co-author of “Flip the Switch: Proven Strategies to Fuel Your Metabolism and Burn Fat 24 Hours a Day.”

39. Skip juice. Reaching for an apple instead of apple juice is not only better calorie-wise, but it’ll also do a better job of boosting your metabolism, Dr. Manfroy explains.

IN YOUR LIFE

41 & 42. Get C and D. Vitamin C can help you burn more fat, and D may help you lose fat, research notes. Aim for 400 to 500 mg of C and 800 mg of D a day.

43 & 44. Walk more (in denim). Researchers found that fitness-friendly offices (think treadmill desks, mobile headsets) helped people trim pounds and fat, as did wearing jeans to work, since dressing casual encourages you to move more. Wear comfy clothes when you can, pace while on the phone, and stand while chatting with co-workers.

45. Add fish oil (And work out). Taking 6 grams of fish oil per day and hitting the gym three times a week can help nix body fat, an Australian study reveals.

46. Work the day shift. Keeping nontraditional hours lowers levels of hormones that trigger satiety, increases blood glucose and insulin levels, and raises levels of the stress hormone cortisol (which can drive you to eat more), scientists say.

47. Nix the boob tube. Cut your TV time in half, and you’ll burn more calories each day, research from the University of Vermont suggests.

48. Go mental. People who visualized themselves training a specific muscle boosted the strength in that muscle group, researchers found.

49. Eat a smaller dinner. Your body may not digest food — and burn fat — as efficiently if you down a huge meal right before bedtime, especially because your metabolism is slower while you sleep, Dr. Manfroy says.

50. Jump-start your morning. Wake up your metabolism — and get fat-burning started — by doing some sort of exercise within the first few hours of being awake, Cooper suggests.

51. Get your snooze on. Sleep for a solid 81D 2 hours instead of 51D 2, according to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and you’ll lose more fat. Sweet dreams!

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Wed, 16 May 2012 20:21:34 -0400

togetherwecangetfit: Never quit. Your future self will thank...

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:20:15 -0400

togetherwecangetfit:

Never quit. Your future self will thank you for it .

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Wed, 16 May 2012 20:13:06 -0400

fatasstoskinnybitch: tonethatbitchup: obliteratingmyfat: resis...

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:08:45 -0400

fatasstoskinnybitch:

tonethatbitchup:

obliteratingmyfat:

resist-temptati0n:

healthyisalwaysbetter:

mackenziegetsfit:

healthnhope:

my-fat-days-are-over:

justbeingjacqui:

amygetsfitandhasfun:

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chrystidoeslife:

rookcanrun:

45pounds:

droppedthreads:

Never, Ever Give Up. Arthur’s Inspirational Transformation! (by Dallapage)

i can’t hear it all, but just watch. i’m crying.

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THIS!

What determination!!

Never ever ever give up.

Totally cried.

I have to reblog. This is beautiful.
It’s amazing what you can achieve when you try.

DO NOT SCROLL PAST THIS! Watch it right now! You may cry like a baby (like I did).

Holy shit this is amazing.

yep. there were tears.

Oh my gosh, this is amazing.

wow, this is amazing! See what yoga also does to your body!! REALLY need to start with yoga!!

Oh my god this made me cry. I really want to start yoga and this made me want to even more!

WATCH THIS NOW
It’s short, and it started looking like it was going to be just a good short motivation. Made it to nearly 4:30 thinking “Okay I can see how people would cry” but I wasn’t. Then something happened, and my immediate uncontrolled reaction was a sharp intake of air and I was crying and smiling. Then two seconds later another thing happened, another intake of air and I was weeping.
Seriously, it was amazing. I just want everyone who struggles to watch this. Everyone who’s been told by doctors or nurses that they’ll never be what they once were to watch this.

What she said ^^^^

Crying uncontrollably. What a GREAT video

This guy deserves all the hugs in the world for being so amazing.

joeysweightloss: So, I discovered today that I’m absolutely...

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:02:18 -0400

joeysweightloss:

So, I discovered today that I’m absolutely terrified of back photos. I hate them. I never noticed what my back looked like, until I took that 1st picture, because I never looked at it. Well, today I decided to get over that fear and take another back picture, because I’ve only taken front ones this entire journey.

Well, here ya go.

20 lbs difference, 180lb to 160lb.

I’m still terrified of these pictures, but now I have more motivation than ever to lose the next 10 lbs in this 6 weeks!

Wish me luck, and stay strong!

elizabethplaid: nevver: Behind every great novelist … My...

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:01:37 -0400

elizabethplaid:

nevver:

Behind every great novelist …

My “pathalogic ambition” is more like “If I get it out of my head, maybe it won’t consume my thoughts.”

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