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so you just binged..

what are some safe alternatives to purging?

- make some tea with ginger, cinnamon, lemon juice, and castor oil. go for green tea or a probiotic digestive tea. it’s easy on the stomach and expells the food quickly and safely. a natural alternative to laxatives

- safe amount of laxatives. do NOT overdo it with laxatives, you run the risk of ruinging your stomach lining and posibly developing hemorrhoids. also, if you take too many, you’ll be on the toilet for hours, shitting and crying, this definitely raises eyebrows. if you have trouble swallowing pills, they make chewable laxative chocolates that taste halfway decent and do the job just as well.

- intese cardio workout. do lots of russian twists, crunches, blanks, leg lifts, and anything else that you wish. it doesn’t expel the food, but it speeds up your digestive system and gets it out quicker, while also burning off the calories you took in

- taking dietary pills. the prescribed amount. I cannot stress enough how dangerous it is to abuse or misuse pills. this gets rid of extra waste, including water weight and bloating, and speeds up your metabolism, while making sure your body takes in the vitamins it needs to survive, so you’ll get rid of the fatty stuff and keep the stuff that keeps your body running

as always, stay safe. i dont promote eating disorders or anything, but i do support those that have them. if you ever need anything my inbox is always open. <3

[the-dandylion]

Pssssst.

Breakfast no long exists.

Only coffee.

Maybe lunch if you are with people.

Eat some dinner though

I once went 10 days without pooping.

Eat some dinner.

Walk it off

Have some desert on weekends

Don’t go crazy

[the-dandylion]

I’m baaaaaaaaaack. I’m just struggling. I’m binging. I’m restricting and I ‘quit’ tumblr to just hand write all my ramblings in a notebook.

I’m ready for the check-ins and the self destruction. Interact with me, give me some diets that you want me to try and let’s get it

[the-dandylion]

What to Eat: Fast Food Edition

Here are some low-cal/macro food suggestions for popular fast food restaurants! I am ABSOLUTELY pro-recovery; this is just a list of foods that have helped me!

McDonalds:

Cinnamon Coffee Cake (160 cal)

Egg White Delight McMuffin (260 cal)

6 McNuggets (270 cal)

Premium Southwest Salad w/ Grilled Chicken (350 cal)

I always get this ^^ and it’s soooooo good, just omit dressing!

Starbucks:

Petite Vanilla Bean Scone (120 cal)

Oatmeal (160 cal)

Turkey Bacon & Egg White Beakfast Sandwich (210 cal)

Spinach, Feta, and Egg White Breakfast Wrap (290 cal)

Burger King:

Side Salad (60 cal)

Cheeseburger (270 cal)

Wendy’s:

Grilled Chicken Wrap (270 cal)

Panera:

Kids Low-Fat Chicken Noodle Soup (110 cal)

Kids Summer Corn Chowder (210 cal)

Most of their kids soups are around 200, these are just my faves

Vegan Lentil Quinoa Broth Bowl (270 cal)

All of their bowls are under 390 cal and SUPER filling!

In-N-Out:

Protein Style Burger aka. Replacing buns with lettuce (160 cal)

Hamburger, without sauce (300 cal)

Taco Bell:

Most of the tacos are under 200 cal :)

Mini Skillet Bowl (180 cal)

Shredded Chicken Mini Quesadilla (200 cal)

Spicy Tostada (210 cal)

Beefy Mini Quesadilla (230 cal)

Spicy Potato Soft Taco (230 cal)

Gordita Supreme w/ Chicken (260 cal)

Chik-fil-A:

Grilled Chicken Nuggets (140 cal)

Barbecue, Sweet & Spicy Sriracha, Honey Mustard Sauces (45 cal each)

Zesty Buffalo Dipping Sauce (50 cal)

Grilled Chicken Cool Wrap (340 cal)

Papa Johns:

Garden Fresh Pizza, one slice (200 cal)

Shake Shack:

Chicken Dog (300 cal)

Hamburger (360 cal)

Subway:

Rotisserie Chicken Sandwich, 6 in. (350 cal)

Panda Express:

String Bean Chicken (190 cal)

Dunkin Donuts:

Veggie Egg White Flatbread (330 cal)

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Safe Drinks at Starbucks (most under 100 calories, ALL under 150)

Hot drinks: 

Brewed teas are 0 cal! 

Caffé Misto with almond milk: 30 calories (Short), 40 (Tall), 50 (Grande), 60 (Venti)

Caffè Latte with almond milk: 50 calories (Short), 80 (Tall), 100 (Grande), 130 (Venti)

Cappuccino with almond milk: 50 calories (Short), 80 (Tall), 100 (Grande), 130 (venti)

Caramel Macchiato with almond milk: 80 calories (Short), 130 (Tall)

Chai Latte with almond milk: 90 calories (Short), 140 (Tall)

Cold drinks:

Iced Caffé Latte with almond milk: 50 calories (Tall), 70 (Grande), 100 (Venti)

Iced Vanilla Latte with almond milk: 100 calories (Tall), 140 (Grande)

Iced Skinny Flavored Latte with nonfat milk: 60 calories (Tall), 80 (Grande), 110 (Venti)

Iced Skinny Cinnamon Dolce Latte with nonfat milk: 60 calories (Tall), 80 (Grande), 110 (Venti)

Caramel Light Frappuccino with nonfat milk: 100 calories (Tall), 140 (Grande) 

Coffee Light Frappuccino with nonfat milk: 90 calories (Tall), 110 (Grande)

Iced Chai Latte with almond milk: 140 calories (Tall)

Iced teas and refreshers:

Teavana Shaken Iced White Tea: 30 calories (Tall), 45 (Grande), 60 (Venti), 70 (Trenta)

Teavana Shaken Iced Black Tea: 30 calories (Tall), 45 (Grande), 60 (Venti), 70 (Trenta)

Teavana Shaken Iced Green Tea: 30 calories (Tall), 45 (Grande), 60 (Venti), 70 (Trenta)

Teavana Shaken Berry Sangria Herbal Tea: 120 calories (Tall), 150 (Grande)

Cool Lime Starbucks Refreshers Beverage: 45 calories (Tall), 60 (Grande), 90 (Venti), 120 (Trenta)

Strawberry Acai Starbucks Refreshers Beverage: 80 calories (Tall), 90 (Grande), 130 (Venti)

Very Berry Hibiscus Starbucks Refreshers Beverage: 60 calories (Tall), 70 (Grande), 100 (Venti), 150 (Trenta)

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20+ recipes below 150kcal (Pt. 1)

I was on pinterest and I thought I must share the recipes with you guys. I picked all of them, and the limit is 150 kcal so yeay!!

here’s the list of the recipes.

cheddar egg muffin (150 kcal)

italian baked egg and vegetable (149 kcal)

quick cauliflower stir fry (114 kcal)

shrimp stir fry (117 kcal)

cauliflower stir-fry (57 kcal)

stuffed strawberry and cheese french toast (149.3 kcal)

chicken miso soup (132 kcal)

prawn salad with pickled cucumber (100 kcal)

spanish tortilla with artichokes (107 kcal)

tarka dhal (137 kcal)

warm rainbow cabbage salad (129 kcal)

fruity prawn cocktail (130 kcal)

leek and potato soup with peas (134 kcal)

strawberries in balsamic yogurt sauce (51 kcal)

skinny mini blueberry cheesecakes (138 kcal)

slow cooker fudge (114 kcal)

white bean avocado toast (140 kcal)

squash and kale gratin casserole (104 kcal)

avocado breakfast toast (140 kcal)

individual egg and spinach bowl (84 kcal)

fast fish burger (141 kcal)

roasted ratatouille (150 kcal)

chocolate cake (95 kcal)

vegetable balti (131 kcal)

baked aubergine (81 kcal)

Chinese dumpling (63 kcal)

You can always find substitutes for the ingredients to lower the calorie count.

If you made any of the recipe, don’t forget to share the outcome with us ❤

Stay safe lovelies ❤✨

[the-dandylion]

now vs. 1 month ago

not only has my confidence boosted but people are beginning to notice the weight loss and it’s the most motivating feeling ever ☺️

[the-dandylion]

Black color themed thinspo

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Workouts You Can Do In Bed

To Get Rid Of The “Are You Pregnant?” Belly :

20 crunches

35 sit ups

10 full body crunches

50 crisscrosses

10 wide leg cross sit ups

20 leg raises

To Get Rid Of The Jello Like Thighs :

100 pillow squeezes

30 side leg lifts (Each side)

To Get That Bubble Butt :

40 butt bridges

25 lying kick backs (Each side)

50 clam lifts (Each side)

20 forward kicks (Each side)

30 knee tucks (Each side)

There is literally no reason why you shouldn’t be doing these workouts ESPECIALLY if you’re in bed. You can do this! You reach that UGW

Made by: ThisIsAnaMyFriend

[the-dandylion]

Me during a binge and dedicating myself to my own bullshit

if you pull the bag out of a cereal box you’re fucked. you’re so absolutely fucked. it’s never gonna go back in there the same way again, the box was protecting you and you disrespected it and you will get what you deserve 

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TIPS FOR EATING LESS THAT DON’T INVOLVE ACTUALLY EATING LESS

🍨 🥄 Use small spoons. I’m serious. Get the smallest spoons you can find and eat everything with them. It will take way longer to eat something and you will feel more full. 🥄 🍨 🍿 ✍️ Use chopsticks for things you don’t need spoons for. Can’t use chopsticks? Great, too bad. Use them anyway. If you’re very good at using chopsticks, switch hands. Eating will be frustrating and slow, and you might end up deciding it’s not even worth it to eat right now. ✍️ 🍿 🥞 🍴 If you’re eating something too big to put in your mouth all at once (like steak, toast, a whole cucumber) cut it into tiny pieces. But not all at once – just cut one piece and then eat it and then another piece. Make every piece as miniscule as possible. Chew 20 times. 🍴 🥞 🍹 🥃 If you’re craving some kind of non-water drink, get a shotglass. First measure how much it holds (so you can record how much you drank, if you count calories). Then pour yourself a shot. You can have as much of the drink as you want, but only from a shotglass. Preferably, take a gulp of water between each shot. 🥃 🍹 🍲 🔪 If you can, make even small meals into an ordeal. Eat every apple with a knife. Cut your toast into complex shapes before eating. Cut your carrots into the thinnest matchsticks possible. Count to thirty in a foreign language between each bite, or count backwards from 90 in pairs of 3, if you don’t speak any other languages. 🔪 🍲 🍏 🍉 🍑 🥗 Do whatever you can to make eating tedious, time-consuming, and unenjoyable. I find myself looking forward to a meal a lot less if I know i’ll have to cut it into 50 pieces first. 🍏 🍉 🍑 🥗

[the-dandylion]

fasting

1-6 hours: body burns glycogen

6-72 hours: body burns fat

72+ hours: body burns protiens ( body starts burning muscle, tissue, etc )

1-2 weeks: may die from lack of minerals or heart failure

3 weeks- 70 days: death

( this all may vary depending on weight and activities )

[the-dandylion]

do NOT offer me a big spoon if you see me with a small one. i know what im fuckin doing

[the-dandylion]

🥵Weird Shit I Expienced/Did While My ED Was At It’s Worst 🥵

Okay, leggo

1) music sounded slower to me

- okay, so idk why I experienced this. But while I was at my worst, all the music I listened to was just really slow. And I would listen to like, kpop and shit. Yeah, I was going through my BTS Army phase and I would run on my treadmill while listening to their music. And their songs (for the most part) are pretty upbeat. And when I listened to it, it just sounded so slow to me. I’d be running and like torturing myself to go another mile, and I’d be like “this shit slow, can you rap faster plz??” But my man yoongi was already rapping as fast as he could😔

- But after I got to a healthier weight, music began to sound normal to me. It wasn’t as slow and I was enjoying it a lot better. I told my therapist what I happened with the music and how it sounded while my weight was too low for me and she was kinda just like, “oh lol, fr?” And Idk if she believed me or not but whatever.

2) I would say the dumbest shit to my crush

- I don’t exactly remember what I would say, but I just remember cringing at all the shit I would do and say around him. And it wasn’t because of my immaturity, it was because my mind was not working correctly because it was not being fed properly and my weight was not good for my body

- OKAY ILL MAKE ANOTHER POST ABOUT THIS, BUT I WAS SO NOT THINKING CORRECTLY CUZ OF MY ED AND I SAID SOME DUMB SHIT AND DID SOME DUMB SHIT, LIKE FR IM EMBARRASSED JUST THINKING ABOUT IT OKAY MOVING ON

3) my sex drive got so low that I thought going to an all girls school was a good idea

- my sex drive just disappeared. And I didn’t think much of it unil I saw it as a sign of anorexia and I was like “oh…”

- I still had like, a crush, but like idk, all of like my “thoughts” and stuff never came up and my search history was so clean and boring (actually is was mostly just “how many calories are in…?”)

- but because I was like, “lol, I have no sex drive, I can live without guys”, I begged my mom to let me go to this really nice and expensive all girls catholic high school in our neighborhood.

- big mistake. Once I became myself again (not fully, but I was coming out of who I was during the worst of my ED) I felt really not in tune with the all girls school and the ppl there. Girls from catholic schools are very different from girls from public schools (me). So I was kind of like “why did I beg my mom for this?”. Plus I was starving without guys:/

- but we were already committed to me going there and I’ve kinda grown to like it there

4) my PE teachers would think I was lazy, but in reality I was just so weak from eating nothing that I could literally not do anything in PE

- okay this is actually not something I did, but my stupid PE teachers would yell at me to participate in class a lot because I would either hide in the bathrooom after attendance (our PE class was so big you could disappear without the teachers knowing) or just sit in the shade and try and save my energy for swim team.

5) I’d work out for three hours while living off of three protein bars a day

- yeah…, I did that for a while. I ate those bars called perfect bars and only ate those and only 3 a day

6) I’d chug apple cider vinegar

- I wasn’t eating enough to shit, and like I really wanted to (I had this rule that I wouldn’t step on my scale unless I had worked out, peed, or took a shit idk). And I hadn’t taken a dump in like two days cuz there was like nothing to shit out, so I drank like I ton of apple cider vinegar cuz I read somewhere that it helped with digestion and then my stomach hurt like a bitch

7)I’d drink 4.5 lbs of water in 2 minutes (which is not safe and could kill you❗️❗️❗️)

- this was kinda after I had gone to treatment and gotten back to my pre ED weight. But I had slowly gone out my range my doctors gave me and I was like, “shit, I legit was just trying to maintain my weight”. (Little did I know that 2,500 calories a day was not enough for me). So I’d water load before my mom would weigh me. I stopped though, cuz too much water could kill you (I didn’t know that before lol)

8) I was such an irratble and angry bitch

- oh. my. god. I was such a bitch while I was at my worst. I would cry at everything. Get angery with my friends at like, everything. And just get so pissed off at my mom for nothing. My mood was OUT OF CONTROL cuz I was so malnourished.

9) I painted my room with all my strength so I could burn more calories

- my mom and I redid my room the summer my ED was super bad, and I remember just painting my wall so fucking hard so could burn more calories and gain arm muscle.

10) I’d add up all my calories on every paper I got because we weren’t aloud to use our phones in school

- if I pulled out my eighth grade math journal, you’d mostly just find calorie calculations next to some pre algebra shit I didn’t get

11) I’d walk into stores just to look at food labels and practically torture myself

- I would go into Vons and window shop with the food they had. I’d just stare at the baked goods and everything in the chips aisle.

12) Chew and spit (which is bad for your teeth, my teeth became extremely yellow)

- when my mom wasn’t home, I’d sit at our toilet with a bucket of ice cream and just put ice cream in my mouth and spit it out (I never threw up my food)

13) I’d make a list of safe foods at common restaurants ( this is what I did instead of having an actuall hobby)

- I had this list in my notes that had the calorie content of foods at places like Panera bread or Wendy’s in case I was ever forced to go there and needed to pick the lowest calorie item on the menu

Basically, I was just preoccupied with my food and weight and my ED took away my life for a good amount of time. Some days it still does. But all these things that I listed here are things that I honestly don’t like to remember I did because I felt awful and lifeless when doing them and it was mostly my ED that was doing them.

Eating disorders are in no way glamorous or fun. They suck. They take the life out of you and make you preoccupied with your body and food. And you weren’t born into this world to live your life that way. You’re here to experience all the great things life has to give. Not to count calories, macros, or how many laps you’ve swam or reps you’ve done.

PERIOD.