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Feeling anxious after eating.

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I'm always feeling pretty nervous and I'm in horrible fear right after eating. Even if it was like 400 or 600 as my only meal for my day. Yesterday, I started panicking doing my omad, I couldn't even finishing my meal. Logical, i know there's no reason because I can't gain on that amount of calories but still.

Anybody else?

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#2 ·
Yes I understand. I feel exactly the same. Yesterday evening my husband cooked me fresh fish with boiled potatoes and peas… I genuinely believed that just a couple of boiled potatoes would 100% throw away any progress and make me gain. I always feel anxious after eating. I want the food sometimes so badly but after regret having it. It's awful :( I definitely relate to how you feel. Logically you can't have gained from what you had my lovely, try to remember it's the ED brain believing this and not your own xx
 
#3 ·
I feel the same way. So, before I had my after-work "meal" I was only at 100kcal, but I was panicking about eating anything else? I did end up eating more, but I've been borderline panic attack ever since. I haven't even gone over my limit, but because I feel like anything else is going to make me gain :(
 
#4 ·
Yes, same here
Something I discovered that really, really helps: planning beforehand on what I'll do right after the meal (an activity, a chore, somewhere I'll go...)
So during the meal I think about what I'll be doing, and after eating, I'll have that thing to occupy my mind and calm down that fear
I hope it can help you too ❤
 
#5 ·
Yes I'm the same. It's funny because I sometimes bp but when I'm in restriction mode I'm afraid of every bite like I'll plan exactly what I eat be fine with it then start eating and panicking and I end up not finishing it most of the time. I also panic when I'm at like 100 calories but my goal is at least 500 I know I'll have to eat something else for the sake of my health but I also think it would be so easy not to eat anything else I don't deserve to eat more. It sucks. I feel like the less we eat the more irrational the thoughts become. The lower in calories I go the more I'm struggling to ever go above that calorie number again

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StarvingLlama*-* said:
The lower in calories I go the more I'm struggling to ever go above that calorie number again
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This exactly this!
Also, I'm sorry you are struggling so much xx
 
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Yep. Just ate a more "solid" food and feeling weird about it. Actually struggled to finish it (it was a twister, no sides), whereas I used to be able to finish a twister meal (or bigger like a Whopper) with no problems and even would have had dessert.

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