Challenge 10 - 04/05/08
 

This is for everybody at any stage of there recovery suffering with any eating disorder heck even if you don't have an ed you can join in :)

So in the Attn: Ed board thread I suggested this and it got a good response so with a new month/new week and new day here goes!

I will update the challenges every Sunday and then if they start on the Monday we have one day to prepare for them.

The aim of this thread is to challenge ourself to do something for ourselves to look after our bodies, mind or health. With so many different people on here in all stages of recovery suffering from all sorts of eating disorders the challenges will sometime's be slightly vague!!

Each challenge last's one week but if you can't manage the whole week then don't beat yourself up - you tried and maybe you will manage a whole week shortly. If you manage the whole week fantastic here is to next week. If you don't think you can manage the challenge at the moment then here is to you getting to a point in your life where you can attempt - remember some challenges will be harder and some will be easier depending on your personal situation.


SO WITHOUT RAMBLING MUCH FURTHER THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:

Is to take up a hobby :burger:

So often when we are in the depths of an ed we forget what we used to enjoy - concentrating only on what is going on in our immeadiate surroundings. We need to get out more and so with summer coming along we need to march out loud and proud to ensure that we enjoy ourselves learning new things.

I was just thinking about what you had said about challenges!
Must have been a bit of telepathy going on there...
Anyway, this is one of the best ideas ever!
I will try my best

xxx

That's such a good idea! Count me in. I'm going to make more of an effort to take my vitamin & mineral supplement every day, and to have something rich in calcium every day as well.

Yay. I was wondering about this actually, nice to see it set up so quickly :)
I'm definitley taking part, especially since I found out our school has some really tasty yoghurts on sale :)

*makes mental note to actually take her calcium pills*

I think I drink enough milk though.. >.<

This looks like something I could really try and do, the only down side is that I'm Lactose Intolerant, so none of those things sit well with my stomach. I am a cheese lover though, so I'll see what I can do, fantastic idea! I look forward to the next challenges!

Swing

I'm in, more soya milk and i'll buy calcium supplements, i have been meaning to do this for weeks.

im going to try and give it a go.
great idea.

good idea cam, i'm in :)

*goes downstairs to have some cottage cheese*

First Day :)

Those taking part currently:

Jetblackfeeling
Sorrowfree
KatieFrank
thumbelina
Carmen
luzin_grip
claireyfairy
Swingline
pinkbuzzybee
x-dieing inside-x
x.silence
impossibility
summer stars

If you want to take part at any time during the week put your name down and go for it :)

I am going to have a yoghurt for pudding tonight :)

And remember just trying your best is enough
xox

I have been having milk with my cereal for once :)
It's going ok so far.
I love this idea, it makes me feel proud after i have milk, as opposed to horrid.
Hope everyone else is doing well

xxx

I bought myself some yoghurts and small milk bottles so I can have a 'milkshake'

Anyhow it was good and I have managed to have cheese on both my lunches as well :)

I am not a fan of dairy products and thus struggle eating them but so far so good :)

Yay for Cheese on pasta - I like my sig to :P!!
Yay for having milk and feeling good that is fabby :)

I had a yoghurt drink and a calcium-containing multivitamin yesterday, plus a little bit of milk on my muesli.

I make a chocolate milkshake to make the milk bearable - otherwise milk is rank - scooby Doo vitamins sound fab :)

Yay for milk and yoghurt drinks as well :)

Okay so I was silly enough to read the cartons of yoghurt at my school canteen and got scared off them but I have been having milk in my tea for once. And extra milky tea before I go to bed.
So I'm still trying :)

i had a pint of milk today :)

Katie trying is all that matters!

Ami thats fab :)

i've been having milk instead of diet coke for at least one meal in the dining hall for the past few days. and seeing as how i dont like milk that much to begin with/i'd much rather be having something with no nutritional value but no cals.. shocking

*throws party and dumps milk on everyone just cause* (my excuse... its 3 in the morning :P)

ive been having loads of milk in my coffee the last couple of days.

This is a great thred.
I already get enough calcium as my N stresses about it so much...but well done to everyone who's added it in!

Me too. I tend to have quite a lot of calcium purely because I'm very vain about my teeth and stuff. All my 'safe foods' have calcium in them, like smoothies and yoghurts.

Everyone who has added it in, or has been trying to are doing amazing!

Yay for people being able to do it!

I had a hot chocolate yesterday and will have a yoghurt today.

I will announce the new challenge later today but for now have a good last day :-)

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:

Is to challenge the negative thoughts :yeah:

We are all experts at putting ourselves down, declaring ourselves as incompetent, bad, fat, hopeless and so on.... but 99.99999 percent of the time we are far superior than we give ourselves credit for.

It is bloomin hard to change how we feel and think so what I want us to do this week is each day pick one negative thought and change it so we have a positive viewpoint and thought processes associated with it.

Common negative thought - I am fat

Challenge the thought - I may feel fat but realistically I know that my BMI places me in xyz category and so I am not fat.

The only criteria is that you believe what you say each day post your thoughts in here (if triggery hide them) and go for it :)

Okay, I'm going to start this one right away today because I think I need it

Negative thought>>

Positive Change>> I am a very realistic weight for my size, I am curvy and beautiful, and people love my curves. I do not wish to look like the emaciated girls that can hardly stand, I want to be strong and full of glow and life. My ED will not give me that, and if I continue at the rate I am, I am putting my life at risk. I am beautiful just as I am

Positive thought>>> Deep down I do actually believe I can do this. I have people who care about me who are willing to help me through it. Tomorrow is a new day, and it's going to be ok.

Negative thought:

Positive thought: I am underweight, it is okay to occasionally eat unheathy foods.

oh dear... this one might be slightly harder.. *tries anyways*

um yeah, mine is jess's O.o
cept minus the underweight part.
but it is 'normal'... and i know logically it wasnt *that* much

Negative:



Positive: I know deep down that fasting/purging is not the way to go about getting healthy so I am going to make myself a nice healthy breakfast when its a more practical hour =]

Negative - Positive
 

I only joined yesterday but I've got so much out of it already. This is an amazing site!!! And this challenge is great, so I'm definitely in....

Negative:

"I'm never going to be good enough at anything I do"

Positive:

"I'm good enough"

Sounds simple, but I've never felt good enough, in relationships, in my family, in my work, in my creativity, in my body, in my eating, in the little things, in the big things, etc, on and on and on.....

But I'm really going to try to change this.

Thanks,

And good luck to everyone.

Kate xx

I shall try my best.





Positive: Deep down i know that's rubbish. If someone told me that they think that of themselves i would gladly spend a whole day telling them otherwise. It's not going to get me anywhere thinking like that and i want to get better. I really do. Purging will only make me ill and i'm tired of being ill. I want my life back and i'm not going to give up. Not ever.



Love you all xxx

Ive only just read this thread and its an absolutely fanstatic idea!.. Well done random swirls.

Everyone on here is doing so fab, its brilliant!!! Well done everyone!!!


I dont feel able to join in right now but i will keep reading for inspiration from you guys until i can contribute.

oh actually maybe i can

Negative-im a failure for not being able to try this challenge

Positive- i would have done last weeks if i had seen it because i ate cereal and weetabix with milk and had scrambled eggs with the yolk in it aswell.

negative: i hate the way i look.

positive: people always tell me how great i look and how pretty i am, and they starting to make me see that they are right and i maybe i can start to love myself.

omg i soundlike i have a big head.

The more big headed the better :woot:



Positive - Being healthy is more important.

negative

positive- i'm not huge and i have loads of friends at uni

Negative: im fat and ugly

the truth: if i was, i wouldnt pull a fair amount of people on saturday night ;)
x

Yeah, last week's challenge wasn't a challenge for me because I normally eat a yoghurt each day.
But this week is sooo hard for me because I think so negative of myself.





Oh, I hope that it is O.K. to hide the "truth", too :-( .

The truth: People love me for who I am, not my eating disorder. My parents are proud of me, even if they don't express it how I would like them to.

Everyone deserves to go to the Dr. and if nothing is wrong how much better is that :)

Ok i'm in

Yesterday

Negative

Positive: i am very underweight so i do *need* the snack even if its difficult for me

Today

Negative

Positive: A meal plan is needed 'coz i *need* to gain the weight. Having a evening snack is *normal* and without it i will not have had the calories my body needs

Today:



Positive: My day begins right NOW, and I'm going to be OK for the rest of the day.

Go people go!!



The Dr was a jerk who thought peaches gave you gas.

I shouldnt have had junk food but I hadnt ate anything else all day so my body needed the cals and energy. I deserve to eat *healthily* today.

she's probably ill too if she's *that* tiny... and i need food to survive.

truth: I have some good friends who like me for who I am and who like me, although I am not an easy person.
Moreover, beauty is something that is a personal concept and of only people who look perfect would leave the house, the streets would be empty :Wink: .

nagative


positive: what you ate was 'normal', your not fat, Ian ate more than you

ok so maybe some dont fit... but that doesnt mean all of them make me look disgusting

Negative

Positive: What your doing is what you need to do to recover. You need to stick at this. its the closest to 'normal' eating youve been in years.

negative

Positive Kelly you know you want to get well an this isnt the way to do it. keep going. You still have along way to go this isnt actually THAT many calories