*Trigger warning* Eating for Health and Wellness

[Guest_1055]

I have been struggling eating and eating healthy foods over the last couple of weeks. I really do not want to go back further to how I use to eat, that is eating junk food, takeaways, copious amounts of chocolate, processed junk and comfort eating.

Finding it challenging to stay motivated to actually prepare what I know helps me feel better mentally, emotionally and physically. Plus I have been feeling overwhelmed with other stuff happening in my life, which somehow makes it more challenging. The old unhealthy comfort eating thing is coming back. And I think I am getting concerned and scared about that. I so much do not want to go back to how I use to be. I was so sick. Plus I now have some physical things not right in my body , so I need to be more careful and mindful of what I eat. ( Pre cancer cells , high blood pressure )

I was eating really well since Febuary of this year, it’s just the last couple of weeks I haven’t.

So I would like to use this thread to help me be accountable to Beyond Blue people. So like a diary where I can post and report what I eat. And also any healthy eating tips, motivating strategies to help eat better or anything related to healthy eating for our bodies including our mental health.

[Guest_1055]

I felt much better today. Struggled seeing myself in the mirror though.

No chocolate (only hot chocolates but I don't count those, because they are made on water, have raw cacao instead of cocoa, no refined sugar and organic soy milk)

No processed foods or other junk. Though currently I am eating sultanas. Not necessarily junk in my eyes, but high in calories. Figured it was better then the chocolate eating.

Breakfast... Smoothie. Pineapple, mango, orange, coconut water and kale.

2 figs

Lunch... Toasted lebenese bread with left over runny cashew cheese, tomato and spinach.

Hot chocolate

Dinner.... Vegetable and split pea soup. ( potato, carrot, red spilt peas, corn, onion, garlic, spinach cauliflower, cumin, chilli powder, tumeric, smoked paprika, tomato paste)

Hot chocolate

Still eating these sultanas. May just eat the whole packet.

[Guest_1643]

I love the dinners you eat they are so fresh and beautiful! I'm drinnking the hot coco now from Loving Earth - it's pretty simple isn't it? But hits the spot!

Mirrors terrify me, my GP wanted me to practise looking in the mirror and confronting it - that's one thing I've rarely done for my recovery. I still avoid. I don't like my skin for whatever reason and it bothers me.

sounds like a lot of yum food and enjoyable eating today. happy for you.

I ate again not so much today sadly

Start the day with oats (bit of maple syrup, nut milk) and had some pineapple and quite a few timtams.

Not really enough to fuel the day. I have a sore back and need to take voltaren wit meals so hope it will help me actually eat the meals.
Trying to eat more durig the day, otherwise I mostly just use coffee to keep going or sometimes chai but don't eat enough foods which leads to snacking

I dont also cut off eating at any time at night and sometimes snack later which is bad but I dont like to be too rigid eg stop eating at 8pm because it makes me feel controlled...

[blondguy]

Hey Shelleybelly!!

Im getting hungry reading your thread 🙂 Always a bonus to read anything you post Shell!

Not that I recommend this diet to anyone...yet here is what my wonderful 89 year old mum eats every week...

• Full cream milk...approx 1-2 liters/day
• Cheese....omg....approx half a kilo a week...Coon or equivalent
• Thickened cream....premium. 2 x containers a week
• Butter....my mum has a spoonful when she is cooking..and on bread of course
• Kooka buttermilk cookies....a pack a week
• Large pizza..Supreme with extra anchovies......once a week
• 1 x Kilo of T-Bone steak a week
• (its not food..yet amazing)....50 cigarettes a day...seriously
• Eats her vegetables every day without fail....(with butter)

My mum's blood pressure is normal and her LFT (lung function test) is also normal

Mum is nearly 90 years old...slim and has some memory loss....physically she is fine

I dont know how she does it....bless her Scandinavian heart!

Have a great day Shell and all

my kind thoughts always

Paul

[WaitingToLetGo]

How can you go about eating like that? (no offence)

I'm just curious though, because I don't really eat much, and I nearly passed out the other day at school, from not eating enough food, what can I do to help this?? It upsets me knowing I might get sick if I don't eat enough food, or the right foods, and I get stressed which isn't good and I don't know what to do about it....

Any thoughts??

[Guest_1055]

Struggling at the moment with the desire to eat chocolate. So thought I would write in here in hope the craving will vanish as I write. OK.

Food log

Breakfast... None

Hibiscus tea

Couple of pieces of cooked cold potato

Lunch.... Large salad with greens, red cabbage, carrot, capsicum, corn, roast sweet potato, tofu and quinoa. With lime and date dressing

Smoothie, the same as yesterday

I will go and make a hot chocolate and see if that helps

[Guest_1055]

Sipping a warm hot chocolate and nibbling on a fig.

[Guest_1055]

Hey Sleepy.

Yeah I want the meals I eat to look fresh and if possible with lots of colour. It just helps if it looks beautiful to me.

Unlike you I do try to cut off eating into the night. I tend to sleep better. But I don't always get it right. Control is not mixed up in that for me though like you. Just realised it was better for me to not eat into the night.

Were you parents controlling at all?

Sorry about your back, is it feeling better now?

You did good with the oats Sleepy. First thing in the morning too.

I hear you about the mirror issue. So many factors get affect our skin. For me it is how fat my face, actually my whole body looks. And I often feel ugly. I dislike photos taken of me as we'll. Are you the same there with the photos? I am not sure for me if this is all vanity or not. No idea

And yes the loving earth chocolate is quite nice. I just was sipping some then. I found the dark chocolate one. I have also eaten there chocolate bar that they make. I thought I recognised the brand name, when you mentioned it before.

Hey I have come across an app you may find useful. Maybe you already have it. I think it is called RR.

[Guest_1055]

Hey Paul

Wow your dear mum is a dairy girl all right.

You sound like you really love her. I love that about you.

Shelleybelly

[Guest_1055]

Hey,

Which bit about eating are you referring to? Maybe not enough food? And ah no offence taken.

Properly I good thing that you have going there that you realise you may become sick if you don't eat enough or not eat foods that will supply everything your body needs.

I think if I was at school still and I felt faint. I would properly eat something. And drink water. As maybe it's our body saying its dehydrated or in need of food.

If that didn't fix it, well I guess I would research it (that is personally what I would do) or go see a naturapath or doctor to see if my body was low in some nutrient perhaps iron.

Are you able to take some healthy food or snack to school? I like cold sweet potatoes. Sounds weird I know. And just recently figs.

My sister has a small jar that is in her car. For anytime she is in need of something to eat. In it is raw almonds and other nuts and raw figs.

Is that something you could do. I will be doing that soon, as I thought it was a good idea.

[Guest_1055]

So thankful that I ate mostly foods that are helpful and nourishing to my body today.

I did have a craving for chocolate, but waiting a while and drinking that hot drink and fig helped a lot. I will hopefully remember that in future. Did not feel sad, angry or irritable. Did feel a bit tired. Felt pretty calm today.

Snack.... Tinned pineapple chunks in natural juice

Dinner.... Cauliflower and pea Soup. (cauliflower, frozen peas, stock, rosemary, oregano, thyme)

1 mandarine

Sultanas