Food tips

Planning

"...something I found helpful when I first started living on my own was to plan my meals/snacks a week in advance – I’d sit down once a week and plan out my lunches and dinners and snacks (I was ok to do my breakfast without planning by then) – this way, I didn’t have to face choosing what to eat when I was upset/anxious as it was all decided in advance – it also made food shopping easier as with my meals planned, it gave me a shopping list already. 

Depending on how things were at the time, I would alter the amount of detail in my meal plan – I started off by specifying the type of sandwich filling I would have, or the kind of chocolate bar, and with time, I moved onto to choosing my sandwich at the time rather than in advance.  Another way is to plan 7 days worth of meals, but not specify what day to have them on, or to plan one day in advance the night before. "

Fear foods

"Something I decided to do was make a list of  all the "scary foods" that I wanted to eat, but was too afraid to. I made a rule for myself that I'd have to challenge myself and eat one of my fear foods every week. by planning it, I didn't feel so greedy and I was able to see that eating these foods didn't actually cause me to gain loads of weight as I'd feared. It also gave the message to my anorexia that i was willing and able to fight back!"

Anna

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