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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • One thing I do to limit my intake of a single type of snack is to pour a serving or two into a bowl and allow myself to eat the whole bowl without thinking about the restraint. I may go back for a second serving but I usually find myself not eating a whole family bag of chips in one sitting that way.

    Everything in moderation!


  • My therapist told to try this thing recently where you suck on a candy or snack that you really like, don’t allow yourself to crunch it. Suck it until it dissolves.

    Resisting giving into the frustration but of not being able to crunchit helps you with emotional regulation, feeling the emotion but not immediately reacting to it

    Resisting crunching it because you want to taste that explosion of flavor helps you increase your ability to not only resist temptation but also to increase your ability to have the will to do the things you want to do.

    It also interacts with that same oral fixation as eating, so you’re helping qualm some of those binging urges.

    I do it with sugar free werther’s originals, it works surprisingly well










  • Yeah sometimes. I know that even if I did nothing in a day, if I go work out I feel like I did something.

    It also feels good to get a personal record on a machine or at an exercise.

    It also feels great to get a good pump in.

    After a workout you feel satisfied and tired and it’s great!

    Also seeing your strength and stamina go up in everyday tasks is satisfying.

    My advice is start slow. Even if it’s a light day and you’re kind of miserable, you still feel good about getting it done. Try to convince yourself to go for a week, and go easy, very easy. Like just get any amount of exercise done. It’ll become easier and easier to go to the gym and to do exercises. And you’ll find that you’ll start to like some of them.

    You might like how it stretches a muscle or tendon that is always a little tight. Back extensions feel AMAZING

    You might like how strong certain exercises feel

    You might like how the extra muscle alleviates pains you’ve had in the past

    You might like how much definition a certain exercise gives you.

    You might even just become proud of how good you can do an exercise. I used to have that. “Yeah I’m not bad at working out, but crunches? I’ll beat anyone”

    it’s fun sometimes to bring a friend along and compete a little as well. You can also motivate each other to keep going.