i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with, happy to be corrected
#mental-health 2026-06-13
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- provincial_pat — i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with, happy to be corrected 11:06
- blind_submit — i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down 11:54
- blind_submit — follow up the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, your mileage will differ 13:14
- blind_submit — the food noise going quiet is the thing people are least prepared for. i sat in the kitchen at 8pm not knowing what i was for 13:34
- mira_pins — grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life 13:58
youre not a fraud
thinking of you
unrelated but the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
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that counts
please talk to somebody
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not the easy way
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follow up the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, your mileage will differ
thats grief honestly
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how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
the food noise going quiet is the thing people are least prepared for. i sat in the kitchen at 8pm not knowing what i was for
it does lift
the quiet is strange isnt it
were not clinicians
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
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glad youre back
thank you for saying it
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
hold on if you can
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the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards