Top 5 Triggers
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1) skinny friends complaining they are fat
2) clothes sizes that differ store to store
3) work
4) media
5) plus size models that are not plus size0 -
1. Boredom
2. Skinny friends
3. Being undressed
4. People talking about dieting
5. My parents.0 -
1. Stress!
2. Pictures of me now (fat)
3. Pictures of me thin when younger
4. Thin people, especially from high school (when anorexia began)
5. Husband0 -
1. When people say I look better the thinner I get or that I'm a "skinny minnie now!"
2. When people eat food around me that I deem "unsafe."
3. When I'm alone.
4. When I'm hungry due to restriction
5. Media images/TV, models, manniquins, etc.0 -
1) skinny friends complaining they are fat
2) clothes sizes that differ store to store
3) work
4) media
5) plus size models that are not plus size
Wow, completely agree about number 5. I didn't even think about that, but it's triggering for me too when I think about it...when plus size models are actually fairly "thin" or not really plus size. It makes me feel like "normal weight" is "overweight."0 -
1. stress
2. anxiety
3. depression
4. media
5. cycles of restricting turn to bingeing0 -
1. Dessert
2. Other ladies at my treatment centre
3. ANY stress
4. Missing meal time (makes me want to skip entirely or binge!)
5. My mother and her constant diet/weight/fat talk0 -
1. My mother
2. The scale
3. Loneliness
4. Fat pictures
5. Pics of me at my thinnest0 -
1. When I've made a mistake (this is the same trigger for anxiety and panic attacks)
2. If I miss a meal (because I either don't eat for the rest of the day or I binge all evening)
3. My mum, who always comments on my weight/size.
4. Adverts and articles about weight loss 'wonder products'
5. TV shows or articles about ED when everyone is much smaller than me.
My top 5 motivational tools:
1. I stopped weighing myself and only use measurements and a body fat caliper.
2. Using plastic containers to divide my 'high risk binge foods' (eg. big bags of tortilla chips) into smaller portions.
3. I stopped buying fitness magazines, as I think they're even more triggering for me than regular womens magazines.
4. Every time I think about purging, I drink a 'detox' tea instead, and take some rescue remedy.
5. Trying to keep my streak going on MFP.0 -
1.having mostly skinny friends
2, seeing my previously thin self in photos
3, Sugary food
4, My Mother
5. Feeling unsuccessful
I want to change this cos I relapse recently...these are all triggers yes, but the main one is Trauma. After something that reminds me of trauma it triggers my PTSD which in turn triggers ED. What a domino effect. Yes that means I had a traumatic event happen recently.0 -
1. When people talk about how they skipped a meal to me
2. Skinny friends
3. Fat friends
4. Looking in the mirror or photos of myself
5. My weight0 -
1) loneliness
2) being alone in my house with binge foods
3) when people tell me how they "haven't eaten anything all day" and I have already had two meals
4) my mother
5) losing weight0 -
1. other people's success stories. "i've lost 27lbs in 3 weeks!!!"
2. advice that says "losing weight is easy, it's all about the calories. just eat less!"
3. seeing people who grew up skinny.
4. my mother.
5. deep, intense hunger pangs and growling stomach.0 -
1. Worried I'll get worse again
2. Anxiety
3. Feeling full
4. Eating 'bad/junk' food
5. Eating out/away from home0 -
1.Clothes that are tight
2.fear of gaining weight
3.my stomach not being board flat even after I eat
4.seeing sickly skinny celebrities (like Nicole Richie)
5.seeing pictures of myself after I had my kids when I had not lost baby weight0 -
5. Eating out/away from home
That's a big one I didn't put....I'm always afraid of not knowing how much calories the food has when eating out and then at friends and families I'm always afraid they are watching what I'm eating or a lot of times they do make comments about how much i'm eating so I eat more just so they don't make comments, then I freak out when I get home about how much I ate!0 -
1. Looking at my stomach while sitting on a full tummy.
2. Of course, girls thinner than me.
3. After drinking alcohol or smoking pot. (Had to give up both)
4. Wanting to get into my old clothes sooner.
5. Almost any fast-food/fried-food. Which is why my vegan - based diet has been such a success thus far!0 -
1.my mother
2.my sister
3.my friends
4.when people talk about weight loss and diets at work/school.
5.when people congratulate me on losing weight when I used symptoms to achieve it.0 -
1. upcoming performances
2. springtime
3. skinnier dancers
4. comments about my body/ weight
5. loosing/ gaining weight0 -
divinitydancer wrote: »1. upcoming performances
2. springtime
3. skinnier dancers
4. comments about my body/ weight
5. loosing/ gaining weight
Almost exactly the same!!!0
