i'm not sure what you mean by triggers? what are ou triggered to do?

 

i'm not sure what you mean by triggers? what are ou triggered to do?

Triggers are what cause to to engage in certain behaviors. In this case it's what causes your obsession with clean eating.

For me it was a response to my treatment for my ed. Because I couldn't restrict I changed to just restricting to my safe and clean foods. Anything can trigger my behaviors though. Mainly when I feel out of control or stressed is when I latch into my behaviors the most

 

Getting sick or fatigued would be one. I'd recently done this diet that pretty much cut out fruit. While doing it, I felt really good and looked pretty good; had plenty of energy. Acne was better and all that. This past week I added the fruit back in because I'd planned to relax a little more with the carbs and all of a sudden I'm not feeling so good, acne is back and I've got migraines and digestive issues so now I'm dropping all but the lowest fructose fruits again. I'm thinking maybe I don't process fructose too well.

 

Triggers are what cause to to engage in certain behaviors. In this case it's what causes your obsession with clean eating.
For me it was a response to my treatment for my ed. Because I couldn't restrict I changed to just restricting to my safe and clean foods. Anything can trigger my behaviors though. Mainly when I feel out of control or stressed is when I latch into my behaviors the most

when I'm stress I will binge on healthy snacks but when there are junk food arnd the house I will junk too but that's when my parents around. I will feel guilty but I wont purge, just restrict my calories or eat only fruits the next day.

Just realised I got many triggers to different eating patterns, pffft

 

Getting sick or fatigued would be one. I'd recently done this diet that pretty much cut out fruit. While doing it, I felt really good and looked pretty good; had plenty of energy. Acne was better and all that. This past week I added the fruit back in because I'd planned to relax a little more with the carbs and all of a sudden I'm not feeling so good, acne is back and I've got migraines and digestive issues so now I'm dropping all but the lowest fructose fruits again. I'm thinking maybe I don't process fructose too well.

I think different people will reaction differently to different fruits. Like I eat meat such as chicken or pork or beefI will start to have acne (I used to love meat & can't live w/o them).but now I rarely eat them unless on certain occasions or gathering. Do you know about the blood type diet? I followed it & works quite well. Through that diet I know what food I can't digest & absorb which I realise usually cause my acne outbreak!

 

I have heard of the blood type diet, but that is one that I have not read. And I kid you not, there are very few diets that have been on the market that I have not read. I have an entire library of them here at my house. It's pretty much an obsession. Unfortunately, I haven't the foggiest as to what my blood type is.

 

I have heard of the blood type diet, but that is one that I have not read. And I kid you not, there are very few diets that have been on the market that I have not read. I have an entire library of them here at my house. It's pretty much an obsession. Unfortunately, I haven't the foggiest as to what my blood type is.

You can find out your blood type really easily if you go to a blood donating event! They will do a sample and let you know.

My biggest trigger is food documentaries. Food Inc, Forks Over Knives, PETA videos like Kentucky Fried Cruelty....SuperSize Me....King Corn is terrifying because of it's info about HFCS.

The list goes on.

 

I have heard of the blood type diet, but that is one that I have not read. And I kid you not, there are very few diets that have been on the market that I have not read. I have an entire library of them here at my house. It's pretty much an obsession. Unfortunately, I haven't the foggiest as to what my blood type is.

ME TOO! What's ur favourite diet so far???

 

You can find out your blood type really easily if you go to a blood donating event! They will do a sample and let you know.

My biggest trigger is food documentaries. Food Inc, Forks Over Knives, PETA videos like Kentucky Fried Cruelty....SuperSize Me....King Corn is terrifying because of it's info about HFCS.

The list goes on.

Food documentaries wld kinda trigger me too if I happen to watch any but mostly on the internet, particularly animal cruelty which turn me to opt for plant-based food for most of the time,

 

ME TOO! What's ur favourite diet so far???

It's the one I'm kind of attempting and failing at right now. Dr. Michael Eades put out a book called Thin So Fast in 1989. In it he put out his version of a protein sparing modified fast. It's pretty low calorie; around 800 to 1000. And the macros are as follows: 40g carbs (total, not net), 53g fat and 100g protein. There is also a supplement protocol that goes with it which includes 3g of fish oil, an electrolyte replacement like Electro-mix, a multivitamin, coQ10, vita D... I'm trying to remember this stuff off the top of my head... The great thing about it is that even though it's pretty low calorie because of the way it's set up, you can still workout while doing it. Anyway, I did the diet for two weeks in February. I only lost 2 lbs, but managed to lose 3 inches off my waist and hips so I had to have been gaining muscle at the same time. Which is great, my opinion. I'd rather be smaller and more toned than be bigger but have a smaller number on the scale. Skinny fat, which is what a lot of anorexics end up being isn't pretty. I digress. But the other thing that was great about this diet is that I felt absolutely fantastic while doing it and my mood was up more than it's been in a very long time. I went off it this past week, but within days my mood was down again and physically I wasn't feeling too great either. So now I'm trying to work out a version so I can kind of be in maintenance mode, but which has a few more calories so that I don't go binging every third day.

 

i got persistent oral candida after a run of antibiotics. i was restricting heavily at the time and wasn't eating the right foods. my immunity was low, my stress levels were high, i had to deal with nasty yeast growing in the back of my mouth...it was horrible.

i've always been concerned with eating healthy, but not so strictly. that situation made me rethink my entire diet.

there are lots more triggers i can think of, but that was the first big one.

 

I've always had some interest in healthy eating from years of dieting and reading about "perfect diets" thinking that everything would just fall into place. Nope.

First big trigger was gallstones. I got gallstones a few years ago and found that a "liver flush" cured them. Well, after I did it twice. Just once and it made it worse (pancreatitis). I ate a very specialized diet for a while after that to flush out my gallbladder, and my interest in the "perfect" foods just cascaded from there. Other little triggers have included a boyfriend with MS (which I hoped to help), patches on my skin that looked like psoriasis (which runs in my family - and which I cure each time by a diet change), acne flareups and any other physical thing in my body or someone I care about that goes wrong in any way. Fitspo and reading are mild triggers by comparison.

 

Besides my acne, now my biggest trigger is losing weight & my sis has notice it! I get addicted when my weight is dropping and there is a obvious lost of thigh fat when my weight drop! For my situation, weight drop = slimmer thigh = TRIGGER

happy or sad?

 

Currently, I think MPA in my trigger. Ever since I found out this forum, I realise I become so addicted that I have to check out here everyday. It is one of my daily rountine now...

 

My bladder condition triggers orthorexic behaviors in me BIG TIME. In fact, I never really struggled with compulsion in that way until my symptoms got completely out of control a couple years ago.

I have intercystial cystitis- constant bladder inflammation with general renal system upsets (my kidneys ache). It got to a point where I had been flaring up BAD everyday for about 4 months straight. Once I was finally diagnosed and I looked into treatment and management of symptoms I saw that diet was pretty directly linked to the severity of the pain. After that it was kinda downhill. My symptoms got better but my fear of certain foods and my compulsion about staying away from irritating foods became overpowering.

Having that pain and linking it with certain foods causes me to associate foods with horrible pain. I had always had issues with my body and food (I was purging multiple times a day for a few years before) but I have never had the fear of food that I do now. Although, there are some foods that I fear NOT eating, like some plant/natural foods that I see as "medicine foods".

Now I go through cycles of extreme clean eating mixed with some cheat days that are really hard for me. I berate myself in my head and then I have the physical pain from all the junk foods.

In all I guess I am in a better place now, it's certainly nice to be able to pee without horrible burning pain every time.

 

My bladder condition triggers orthorexic behaviors in me BIG TIME. In fact, I never really struggled with compulsion in that way until my symptoms got completely out of control a couple years ago.

I have intercystial cystitis- constant bladder inflammation with general renal system upsets (my kidneys ache). It got to a point where I had been flaring up BAD everyday for about 4 months straight. Once I was finally diagnosed and I looked into treatment and management of symptoms I saw that diet was pretty directly linked to the severity of the pain. After that it was kinda downhill. My symptoms got better but my fear of certain foods and my compulsion about staying away from irritating foods became overpowering.

Having that pain and linking it with certain foods causes me to associate foods with horrible pain. I had always had issues with my body and food (I was purging multiple times a day for a few years before) but I have never had the fear of food that I do now. Although, there are some foods that I fear NOT eating, like some plant/natural foods that I see as "medicine foods".

Now I go through cycles of extreme clean eating mixed with some cheat days that are really hard for me. I berate myself in my head and then I have the physical pain from all the junk foods.

In all I guess I am in a better place now, it's certainly nice to be able to pee without horrible burning pain every time.

I totally can understand how you feel! Just that for my case it is acne that is causing the pain! I also have fear for some food which can trigger my acne outbreak that i would not dare to eat. Food such as chickpeas which i used to love and wouldn't eat now bc i fear i would have an outbreak. Just recently that i have this cycle of eating clean for most of the time and more relax on one day (usually friday), and this is definitely triggered by my sis! Now that she is single and if i dont have classes, we will eat out but most of the days we will cook ourselves.

On a side notes, i just got to confessed that i am my sis's biggest trigger ever since she started on dieting few years back. I am so regret bc i used to be so much slimmer than her and now we're about the same weight that i fear i will be heavier than her and i would control my calorie intake, sigh big time! I know it's wrong but i can't help thinking this way.

 

My trigger is stress and boredom :-( Must always keep myself busy.

 

what initially triggered me was blemishes and being overweight. I began to read everythimg about what to do for it and I kept reading about eating clean. I became obsessed basically and still am.

My recent major trigger was being really full on bread. I had started not worrying about my eating as much because of money, but that last time of feeling stuffed has put me off eating anything that isn't organic or vegan.

So sadly..my trigger atm is feeling really full <\3

 

Not being attractive to men. Fucking sucks.

 

My trigger is stress and boredom :-( Must always keep myself busy.

I know right! That's my triggers too! But currently is acne outbreak that I started on juice cleanse

 

what initially triggered me was blemishes and being overweight. I began to read everythimg about what to do for it and I kept reading about eating clean. I became obsessed basically and still am.

My recent major trigger was being really full on bread. I had started not worrying about my eating as much because of money, but that last time of feeling stuffed has put me off eating anything that isn't organic or vegan.

So sadly..my trigger atm is feeling really full <\3

sorry to hear that! I usually feel guilty if I stuff myself to bloat and will start detox afterwards. But that is like once in awhile when I feast or eat out w friends. I wont allow myself to feel full on most day unless I'm on egg mono which I feel full and satisfied but not bloated

 

My trigger was health problems from restricting food/purging... since I was a vegetarian, I was barely getting protein or vitamin B. For a couple of months, I was constantly dizzy with vertigo, numb on my extremities, having heart palpitations, and lots of other weirdness. When I ate meat again, the problems went away pretty quickly. The light went on about how important nutrition was, and I started to really value my health.

 

My trigger was health problems from restricting food/purging... since I was a vegetarian, I was barely getting protein or vitamin B. For a couple of months, I was constantly dizzy with vertigo, numb on my extremities, having heart palpitations, and lots of other weirdness. When I ate meat again, the problems went away pretty quickly. The light went on about how important nutrition was, and I started to really value my health.

Since you're vegetarian, egg should be a good source of protein! try juice cleanse, it helps to reboot your body, systems and health! try a 3-day cleanse

 

I can't eat ANYTHING unless it's planned at least 48 hours in advance, and I usually plan my meals once a month so that I can buy most of it in bulk. I know exactly what I'm eating from now till early July. Having lost over 100 pounds in a year (and the BMI still calls me "overweight", though my doctor claims that it's because of all the loose skin and empty fat cells), I am terrified of taking an unplanned bite. I don't eat anything that I don't bring with me, because there's too much of a chance that a restaurant will be out of a menu item, or their portion sizes are not weighed and measured to be exactly identical to the info on their website, or there might be something in it that isn't listed on the website.

I was a binge eater for over 50 years (yes, I'm that old!), and though I recognize that my eating is now disordered in a different way, it is a fact that strict healthy eating has put my lupus into remission and literally saved my life, and I have no intention of putting myself at risk of weight gain and a lupus relapse.

 

My trigger was health problems from restricting food/purging... since I was a vegetarian, I was barely getting protein or vitamin B. For a couple of months, I was constantly dizzy with vertigo, numb on my extremities, having heart palpitations, and lots of other weirdness. When I ate meat again, the problems went away pretty quickly. The light went on about how important nutrition was, and I started to really value my health.

This is pretty much exactly what happened to me. I had been restricting pretty heavily and then all of a sudden I just got really, really sick. Ended up with low potassium and low iron and I had the runs constantly (sorry if that's TMI). It was about that time that my ND outed me for my ED to my therapist and that switched gears fairly rapidly. Now, I'm so scared of getting that sick again, especially the heart palpitations, that I'm just petrified to restrict like that again.