What I do when I feel "stuck"

Oftentimes, I realize that I’m going down the same wrong spiral again with my thoughts and trying to lose weight when I need to focus on eating enough to be healthy. These are some of my mechanisms to cope with these thoughts:

What I do when I feel “stuck”

Oftentimes, I realize that I’m going down the same wrong spiral again with my thoughts and trying to lose weight when I need to focus on eating enough to be healthy. These are some of my mechanisms to cope with these thoughts:

1.I ask myself, “Do I want to continue living like this for the rest of my life”?

When I am in these pits, I feel really miserable, hopeless because I am so dissatisfied and discontent with how I look. I feel like I should not have any of the foods that I want to have to achieve a perfect figure. However, I tell myself that I want a happy life, which helps me rethink my negative thoughts.

2.I write everything down.

When I almost fell deep in my spiral around a month ago, I desperately needed to vent my feelings somehow. Therefore, I created a doc called “brain dump sessions” where I write ALL my thoughts regarding eating and my body when I feel worthless, hopeless and in the wrong mindset of damaging my health. After these short sessions of just me feverishly typing out my thoughts of how I feel and what I SHOULD do, I feel extremely better.

3.Distract yourself

I like to distract myself from my thoughts by doing something, whether that is homework, practicing my viola or watching some youtube videos.

4.Watch your social media usage

My ed started coming back primarily because I was at home and I was seeing these weight loss videos of people on youtube and also just seeing kpop idols and comparing myself to these people and feeling bad for not transforming my body like theirs. I also realized that I was watching “what I eat in a day” videos and comparing how much they eat to how much I eat in a day, and not really for meal inspiration. So, I don’t watch any what I eat in a fat videos now, or any diet related videos (like how I eat on a diet) because it triggers so many thoughts. I also try to not spend too much time on social media, especially looking at kpop idols or influencers too much because they bring me down. Please please, get off the screen if it is making you feel sad. Go outside and enjoy the sunshine. Go have lunch outside and just sit under the sunlight!!

Here's a quote.

-C.