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[trans-native-tokipona]

adding onto some of the points as a trisana person!! same tw applies here!!

goal weights: don't hesitate to break your big ugw into smaller gws. if you use pounds, i'd recommend to place your smaller gws every 10lbs until your ugw, if you use kilograms i recommend 5kg instead. also don't hesitate to lower your ugw. mine used to be 75lbs (around 34kg), now it's 20kg (about 44lbs), it's pretty common to lower your ugw after a while

fasting: start small, holy fuck please start small. don't immediately start doing 2 days fast otherwise you're very likely to fail. intermittent fasting is good, i recommend tracking it with an app (i use zero personally) but honestly just using a timer app is fine too. my biggest advice in general (i'll talk more about it in the food section) is to first observe your current habits, and build your new habits around them. if you're already used to not eating breakfast, you can already start with 16:8 fasts daily, and slowly start pushing your lunch later or your dinner earlier. personally my preferred way of fasting is OMAD (one meal a day) because i live with family and can't get out of eating dinner lol

food: this might be controversial but hear me out. don't immediately start restricting, especially not low restriction (low res = low amount of cals, some people might see it as not restricting a lot but this is how i use low/high res). instead, give yourself a week of simply tracking your food, without counting the cals, to get yourself used to doing it. then, one week of counting the cals but not giving yourself any goal. look at the numbers, try to see if there's a pattern (for example, eating more on weekends, etc). keep this pattern throughout your restriction. start slowly, SLOWLY, getting those numbers down. i repeat, do not suddenly restrict to 500 a day, you're setting yourself up for failure. and the "doing it slowly" part is especially useful if you're still living with your family because slowly eating less and less is less suspicious than suddenly barely eating. i personally find using an app for calorie tracking not that useful, i like writing it down in a notebook, but a few app suggestions i have are myfitnesspal, calory, cronometer, and lose it

other stuff: WATCH!! ED-RELATED!! MEDIA!! to the bone is a classic, my personal favorite is ★ving in suburbia/th!nsp1ration, the first is available on netflix i think and the second is on tubi (use a vpn if you're not from the US). that, or watch wl shows. supersized vs superskinny, secret eaters, my 600lbs life, it's your fault i'm fat, etc... other than my 600lbs life they are all on tubi too, not sure where to find my 600lbs life without tlc tbh. i know the first two are also on youtube if you prefer that

specifically, if you decide to watch supersized vs superskinny, observe the superskinny's habits, replicate them. in the second and third season, they also have a segment where they follow anorexic people's treatment, it's also full of behavior to replicate. documentary about anorexics are a goldmine in that way.

i could have sworn i had a post saved somewhere with a list of ed media but i can't find it. oh well. edit: found it (link) :)

more other stuff: workout, for the love of everything unholy workout please. if you're not a bug workout person (same) just pick two or three exercises you know you can do, and do 200 of them in a day.

i do recommend having a notebook to track your wl and keep some advices, maybe cals in specific foods you eat semi-regularly, some motivation, etc. having a physical object that is decicated to wl helps me focusing on it, it also serves as a good distraction.

anyway i've yapped too much. last advice go on twt and find some of those "how i lose x kg/lbs in y days!!" they will have more advice

>> Transan0rexia tips!

tw: eating dis0rder!!!!

>> first of all i recommend thinking what you want your ultimate goal weight to be and always keep it mind! >> you can also make shorter term goals when it comes to weight to help you be motivated! (for example if your ultimate goal weight is 90 lbs then a good goal weight could be 110-100 lbs) >> Fasting: i recommend starting small and working your way up! >> so i would start with intermidiate fasting (fasting for like 16 hours and having a 8 hour window to eat) >> then you can start 24 hours fast!! >> drink lots and lots and lots of water when fasting, not only does it keep you full but dry fasting is super dangerous! >> try to keep yourself as occupide as possible, keeping yourself occupide helps with not thinking about food as much!! >> foods: have a calorie limit! >> it can be any cal limit!! is up to you! >> you can have a few meals per day that are under your limit or have one big meal ones a day thats is your limit, which ever works <33 >> i also reccomend having a food ritual, it helps with making feel eating like a task and makes you want to eat less! >> some examples of food rituals: drinking on cup of water before during and after a meal, taking a sip of water after every bite, chew 30 times, have 20 bites of your food, ect >> the food rituals can be anything, its just to make eating as tasky as possible!! >>if possible i recommend making a 3dblr acc >> theres lots and lots of tips there! >> some abbrevations(?? idk how to describe it) that are use on 3dblr! : ugw: ultimate goal weight, gw: goal weight , cw: current weight , hw: highest weight , lw: lowest weight , sw: starting weight, b/p: binge purging , c/s : chew and spit (if there any i miss let me know!!!) >>also look into bmi! bmi is your bodies mass percentage!

[aropride]

when i was 17 and in the eating disorder trenches i saw people online talking abt how the fat liberation movement & unlearning fatphobia helped them recover and i did NOT like hearing that i was SO mad about it i was like well having an eating disorder doesnt mean im fatphobic!!! This is ableist etc etc. And then i learned abt the fat liberation movement and started unlearning fatphobia and guess what . it does help

[gayvampyr]

fat people are allowed to be fat even if they don’t starve themselves or push themselves physically past their limits btw

[serial-unaliver]

i'm actually going insane over the rise in pro-ED content and obsession with weight loss because if you dare criticize it like 8 million insecure bitches say "you're obviously jealous" well keep telling yourself that when it hurts to SIT DOWN because there is not enough fat on your body. I have struggled with EDs my entire life (primarily anorexia) and if I wanted my "original" body i'd need surgery from all the shit I put it through. you can only "maintain" an unnaturally underweight body by risking your health because your body does not want to be in a deficit. this is why losing weight becomes harder the lower your weight is. so, that influencer posting pro-ED content you idolize is living in a permanent weight loss diet and will struggle more and more to maintain it as they age, leading to either a binge/purge cycle or death.

i've mentioned before that i've been on both 'extremes' as far as weight goes but I haven't mentioned that my quality of life is significantly worse underweight. in fact it seems pointless to be alive sometimes! why do you want this?! and you know, some of us can't log off tiktok and stop hearing "starve yourself" from other people, my weight is a beauty standard in my family so if I ever try to even eat a fucking cookie someone's got something to say about maintaining my diet. every time I see one of those "mean motivation" videos and open the comments to see people saying "I wish I had someone remind me this in real life"...GOD, SHUT THE FUCK UP, IT'S GETTING IMPOSSIBLE TO SYMPATHIZE WITH ANY OF YOU.

[bunnieswithknives]

Obsessed with his brain

[dreamdropsystemarchive]

we're getting bad again..

[doppelganger-ana]

Ed Films

To The Bone

Girl Interrupted

Dying To Be Thin

THIN (documentary)

When Friendship Kills (A Secret Between Friends)

Perfect Body

Sharing The Secret

Hunger Point

[junglejim4322]

Btw when I was at my worst with anorexia I genuinely think what most people just assumed was going on was that I was on hard drugs although it was ironically the most stone cold sober I’ve ever been in my life. I acted so fucking bizarre I was constantly zoning out in the middle of conversations and I’d say things that just straight up did not make sense and I had absolutely zero memory retention I still don’t remember a lot of that period of time. that shit will literally rot your brain in half no ability to feel happiness absolutely nothing just an empty mind. @ the ed thinspo coquette blogs that I know follow me no you’re not going to feel happy when you meet your goal weight because you’re not going to be capable of feeling emotions anymore in fact you probably won’t even remember hitting it

[she-whodreams]

So basically

[teaboot]

So I've been trying to buy pants and it reminded me that everything is sized so small and I got angry again because

BEHOLD: AN OBESE PERSON

[angelshizuka]

One of the (many) reasons I hate fatphobics' "we're just worried about your health uvu" comments so much is because they literally couldn't be any more transparant. If they really cared about health they'd have the exact same energy to unhealthy thin people (not saying they should, just pointing out their double standards).

As someone who suffered from an ED back in 2012-2013 (and still struggles with relapses from time to time) that made me lose 65 pounds in less than a year and despite my BMI technically being the healthiest it's ever been in my adult life, it was literally the unhealthiest my body has EVER been. Yes, even unhealthier than all the times I've been overweight.

But these people don't give a single fuck. I was thin, so what tf did it matter I didn't get my period for half a year, was constantly cold and dizzy because of low blood pressure and was literally losing my hair by the handfulls (if even a hairdresser says you're losing a lot of hair, you better believe them), because my body had gone into survival mode and literally didn't have the energy to function properly.

And even when I was recovering and trying to get back into eating properly, I ended up fainting and going into shock at a restaurant to the point an ambulance had to be called, because my body literally couldn't process the food (it took years to feel comfortable in restaurants again).

So, please, how about you tell me again how "we're just worried about your health" when you fatphobes don't give a single fuck about my body literally giving up on me from malnutrition, because "hey, at least you're thin uvu".

[canongf]

i love you self shippers recovering from eating disorders and disordered eating habits. i love you self shippers that have been officially diagnosed and i love you self shippers that have not been officially diagnosed. i love you self shippers who are trying to unlearn everything they’ve been taught. i love you self shippers who are trying to let go of everything they’ve been told. i love you self shippers in small bodies, i love you self shippers in big bodies, i love you self shippers whose struggles are overlooked or dismissed because of the size of your body. i love you self shippers that have been in recovery for years and i love you self shippers that have been been in recovery for a day. i love you self shippers that dream of recovery. i love you. your f/os love you. they will be with you and they love you every step of the way.

[serial-unaliver]

without tiktok you know your life will amount to nothing. you convince yourself your eating disorder is a form of self discipline but I know you're internally exhausted every second of the day. you desperately search tiktok for validation--even body shaming other users who did nothing to you--because being skinny is quite literally all you have to motivate yourself to keep getting up in the morning. you tell everyone who can see through your confident demeanor that they're insecure and jealous, but anyone with the same disorder, myself included, feel second hand embarrassment from how blatant you make your self-hatred. but eventually you'll get older and realize personality matters in relationships much more than you thought, and your world will come crashing down

[dollspo2]

[aropride]

i remember being like 17 and thinking i was going to always have eating disorder thoughts and horrible self esteem and that i'd remember the calorie information in every food forever. and well now im 21 and happy to say i have no clue how many calories are in a pizza and i also don't care