Mini Challenges :)

I thought it would be cool to start a thread of personal mini challenges, a list of things that we want to accomplish in ONE WEEK. Don't write down anything impossible, but try to push yourself a little past your comfort zone at the same time. Goals can be anything from trying a new food to upping your amount of calories to putting yourself in a new situation to gaining a certain amount of weight. That way we can encourage each other, share ideas, and celebrate with each other when we succeed. If you don't meet your goals this week, you can always try again next week. Any takers? I'll start:

Before next Friday I want to...
1) Take healthy, balanced, high calorie lunches to school everyday and eat in front of my friends.
2) Go to an end-of-summer party despite having to eat in front of others.
3) Try a new smoothie shop that just opened up in town.
4) Try the macaroni and cheese I bought with pasta (a food i usually avoid) and cheese, which I have yet to eat since my ED. (Nobody makes a big deal out of this since I didn't really like cheese before, but I can tell that my aversion to it is more than just a preference. Therefore I have to be the one to push myself to eat it.)

I think that this is a great idea and I really like your challenges.

My Goals!

1.  To eat out with my co-workers at least one day next week.

2.  To try a new smoothie recipe that i got on this website.

3.  To remember that I am worth recovery and I deserve to have a full and normal life like everyone around me.  Also, to realize that not everyday is going to be perfect, but to keep pushing no matter what.

I have some small goals! This is a great thread!

1. Try to avoid a binge this week (this has been difficult for me lately).

2. Follow my meal plan, even when ED is screaming at me!

3. Cut back on cardio (it obviously isn't helping me gain any weight!)

4. Do something fun with my friends!

I'm going on holidays with the family, and we're going to be staying in a hotel for a few days -- which means continental breakfast, and dining out for both lunch and supper.  My challenge is to order whatever I want -- not the low-calorie options -- despite eating out twice a day.

1. Boost my caloric intake even more

2. Hang out with my friends and eat what they're eating without a second thought

3. To stop worrying about the macronutrients

4. Try not to compare myself to others once school begins next week

this is such a great idea!

1. I want to try to balance my eating habits and my workouts

2. I want to pack healthy lunches for school, and finally start eating infront of people again

3. Try to remain happy and confidant in myself next week when I go back, even though it will be hard

I like this post and the goals look good from everyone

For me

1. Stop this new body checking during the day. I know it makes no sense but for some reason I am doing it like a nervous habit

2.Find a pair of jeans

3. Keep my meeting about the volunteering

4.Work on being less obsessive on food choices

Good luck all.

what a cool ideas mine are

to keep the 2500 up everyday not just a few days and cut back

to have some choclate i was given at christmas

to stop beating myself up , and feeling like im always doing the wrong thing this may be tough good luck everyone

1. Not eat all my calories in one sitting to "get it over with", and then restrict the rest of the day.

2. Have a weigh in and not feel like the number has anything to do with my personhood.

3. Stop constantly keeping my body under the microscope and comparing it to other's.

This week I will try to :

• Not stress over the protein content of my foods ( I get get really stressed about whether they contain enough protein and it causes me to eat only certain things)
• Increase my intake to 2700, Im gaining on 2500 but I think I should maybe go a bit higher?
• Try to cut down on my exercise rituals
• Eat something different for my breakfast again

• Eat in front of people at school and not feel so awkward about it. It's not so much that I am afraid to eat with others around, I'm just paranoid that they will make fun of what I'm eating.
• Break my ruts, both food- and exercise- wise. I want to try some new things. New recipes. New foods. New ways to work out. New is good.
• Not let comments from other people bother me so much. I'll hear someone say one thing about my body and that seems to let ED automatically have permission to think they were saying "you're fat".
• Keep up my calories every single day.
• To not let the number on the scale make or break my day.

I like this thread

My goals

1 To study. For four hours a day. I have college repeats coming up. This involves putting my attention into something useful and productive rather than focusing on my ed or distracting myself from my ed by running around all over the place.

2 To eat three meals, breakfast,lunch and dinner of sort this week (not high cal snack foods all day). Ive purely been eating high cal low vol foods to not feel full and now im scared to eat a "normal meal" and dont see the point in wasting stomach space on some low cal foods. Ill still eat high cal low vol but make proper meals at the same time. This will be good for my overall weight gain and recovery

3 To spend one hour a day doing something i like to do, so to feel more relaxed.

4 To include carbohydrate and protein at each meal, ed doesnt like doing this.

Great idea!

1. Increase my net calories by 100 a day...either by cutting back on activity or increasing my food calories

2. Find and try out some smoothie recipes now that I have a blender

3. To monitor and start working on stopping my tendency to worry and overthink things

4. Get and start taking Omega 3 supplements

5. Follow through with the CT scan that I have scheduled for Thursday.  I'm REALLY anxious about it, especially getting an IV

Goals

• By October weigh 110 or 105
• By next Week Increase to 3000 calories
• Stop worrying about Fats & saturated fats !!!

- Attend school this coming September. Last year I was only in school for the first month or two (at the most, it was the end of October).

- Fit into a pair of jeans that are not a size '00' or '0' and then my long term goal would be able to fit back into my old jeans.

- Get my weight more up in time for my next weigh-in in 3 weeks. I want to be able to show my Dr. that I can do this. I just want to live up to everyones expectations and for them to be proud of me.

- Try something more "challanging" like pancakes or eggs for breakfast again.

I am sure there is more but that is all I can think of at the moment. Great thread idea.

 

nice thread!

• To normalize my meal times
• Stop checking my figure in the mirror
• Im allowed to start 2 short weight sessions per week now:) - so to make sure I have my required protein bar after each session

I love this thread:)

Tomorrow I'm going for a meal in the evening with friends and I don't know what the food will be, so I'm challenging myself to:

1.  Not save calories during the day so I feel "safer" eating out in the eve.

2.  Choose what I WANT from the menu, not what I think will be "healthiest"

Hey guys! I've done really well so far. I've spread my calories out, and I weighed myself this morning and was okay with the number! ED tried to say otherwise, but I shut him up :) I also haven't been keeping a food journal(I used to write everything down in my phone and it became obsessive). I've also been working on not weighing/measuring everything.

truly inspirational ecwk6! I find your post very motivational and want to get to this asap!!!

So, I had a weigh-in with the nutritionist today...and I lost 2 pounds. So, my goal is to GET THIS GOING and gain the weight! I move into my apartment for senior year of college in 2 days, and I am not on the school meal plan. I have roommates, but I will be cooking all of my own meals. Doing that plus juggling school and work is going to be hard, especially when in recovery and when trying to GAIN, not just maintain.

So, my goal is to plan out my dinners each week and to really stick to them so I can be sure I'm getting enough.

And to not be obsessive about exercise, which is what tends to happen when I'm stressed. Long runs = zoning out. For normal people, this is good, but for someone recovering from ED who is still underweight, this is BAD! I'm sticking to YOGA only!

I am going to set a short-term GW of 115 by October 1. That gives me a little over a month to gain 8ish pounds!

Keep it up everyone. You guys are great 

you can do it coco we are all behind you h xxx