Top 5 Triggers
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1. My family, the stress they give me and low self esteem
2. My clothes, the feeling of them fitting looser
3. Thin people I see out or in movies
4. losing weight (even just a little)
5. Depression in general if that counts
Bonus: Myself lol0 -
1. Hearing naturally skinny girls say all the junk they can eat without gaining weight/watching skinny girls at school eat junk food.
2. Thin/perfect body girls at school because they are like living REAL thinspiration NOT photoshopped
3. My brother who eats junk abd doesnt get fat
4. Looking at skinny pictures of myself (I dunno why???)
5. Pictures of junk food that I can't/refuse to eat because they are unhealthy and watching my famy eat unhealthy food and not worry0 -
1. Getting older.
2. People commenting on my weight.
3. Seeing obviously emaciated people (IRL, not so much online).
4. Flashbacks/dreams of my old unit and treatment team, finding old letters & meal plans etc.
5. Stupid adverts & spam for ~super amazing effective weight loss!~ diets/products, the ridiculous 'What will you gain when YOU lose?' Special K ad on TV etc. etc.
But pretty much anything can be a trigger for me if I'm in a particular mindset.0 -
1. Losing weight, nothing makes me want to lose weight more
2. Gaining weight, not quite a triggering, but still freaks me out
3. High levels of stress (i.e. deadline at work or school)
4. Making a mistake and it is my fault
5. Arguments with those I love0 -
1. My mum (always praises weight loss, and comments on weight)
2. my son and teenage moods
3. anxiety/stress
4. the number on the scales
5. too little sleep0 -
1.) the urge/rush to be smaller
2.) giving myself little time to achieve my goals
3.) wanting to feel good with AND without clothes
4.) the need for control
5.) to urge to fit in my 'skinny' clothes0 -
This would be me...0
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Top 5 reasons to not let my triggers get results-
1. Knowing I want to live a long life
2. Knowing lying about eating or purging makes bigger problems
3. Knowing being healthy is more important than skinny
4. Knowing no flashback can harm me, I am bigger and stronger now
5. Having dreams and goals to accomplish
THANK YOU so much for adding this. I think we all need to make this list
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It really helps to read all your lists. Mine don't feel so frightening because I don't feel so much like a freak on my own.
1. Talking about binging/ED (mine or other people's)
2. Feeling sad or hopeless (am bi-polar so these are dark days made darker)
3. Mirrors
4. Photographs of me (any)
5. When I feel overloaded and am avoiding something - it's like I escape into the darkness...0 -
1.having mostly skinny friends
2, seeing my previously thin self in photos
3, Sugary food
4, My Mother
5. Feeling unsuccessful0 -
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
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