What stops me from eating
1. Stay in bed, be too lazy to get food.
2. Make your own personal thinspo folder in your iPad or phone, or your laptop or personal computer.
(Mine’s honestly just full of Lily Collins)
3. Distract yourself with tumblr or Netflix (or other social media) or read or draw, or write in your journal.
(But sometimes it doesn’t really work for me)
4. Organize your closet, or go window shopping online and look at the models.
5. Do laundry, and while you wait around for the cycle do some light exercising in your bedroom, I personally like to do a set of 10 push ups, crunches, pull ups, and donkey kicks.
6. Take a really long shower, really clean yourself. If you can’t afford to use that much water I like to make a large bowl of warm (tiny dollop of soap) water and shave your legs while sitting on the edge of the bathtub, and a clean damp cloth to get the hairs off your legs, take a lot of care washing, toning, and moisturizing your face (and cleaning all my piercings and using really good lotion on my tattoos) put repairing product in your hair, I take your time brushing your teeth and using non alcoholic mouthwash and applying lip scrub and healing balm.
(I don’t use shaving cream, I use shitty low price Walmart hair conditioner because it makes my legs a lot softer than any shaving cream ever)
7. Use teeth whitening strips. I get the crest brand half hour ones, and for about an hour after it’s done my teeth feel too weird to eat anything or even drink water. It’s a great way to stave off a binge.
8. Do your make up (if you’re into it) and really take your time and make it perfect. If I took my time and did my make up and hair to make it perfect, I can stretch my get ready time to three hours.
9. Get a million ziplock bags. Those cheese it boxes and cereal boxes and huge bags of chips - all your snacks and items you sometimes binge on - put every single serving in one ziplock bag. Usually it’s only 150 calories, and veggie straws can vary between 120-140c
Do you know how easy it is to burn off 100c? Casually fast paced. Don’t burn yourself out in the first 2 minutes, just moderately with a slightly raised heart level.
20 minutes of slight incline bicycling/elliptical workout
20 minutes of dancing
10 minutes of jumping rope
5 minutes running stairs / 10 minutes walking stairs
15 minutes of purposeful swimming
20 minutes of treadmill walking
30 minutes of purposeful cleaning
20 minutes of washing a car
30 minute leisurely dog walking
10. Play an intense video game, like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, Diablo, Starcraft, Leauge of Legends, etc. When you get quests or objectives it can sometimes take hours to complete and you’re too busy moving your hands to eat.
11. Read a lot of books, you can’t spill any drinks or get any crumbs all over it.
12. Take a nap, I have a really fucked up work and sleep schedule so I try to get sleep whenever I can, and I never can get to sleep so I use Life Extension Melatonin 300mcg (I get it from GNC) and it knocks me out after 30-40 minutes. But if you’re in school or have a 9 to 5 job, you can always try to stay late or take a longer time getting home so you can just eat dinner and then get ready for bed or whatever.
13. Try to find a job, I know that’s cliche and stupid, but seriously it works. I have a (usually a 12-20 hour week) part time job working at a veterinarian’s where I’m literally always moving and standing and walking around, and I work (5-8 hours a week at the most) part time for Lyft, and I have an apprenticeship (time varies on that, so anywhere between 2-10 hours a day)
It’s so easy for me to be busy, and I hardly think about food, the only giveaway is that I get stomach cramps and I can’t exactly say I’m on my period forever, and once in a while my stomach actually screams for food and people are like “damn are you okay??” And I’m like ‘ha ha yeah that just digestion noises, sorry my body is fucking weird lol’
This is all I have for right now, but all of these things can add up to 15 - 18 hours. That’s over half a day of no food. That’s a good distraction from food.
