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Blueberrybook · Apr 12, 2025, 01:18 PM

Good to admit you have a problem, muddy. For me, I got rid of all my size 0 and 00 clothes because I wanted to be able to fit back into them again and it was a trigger. It was SO freeing!

I have lost weight exercising though and can now fit back into the clothes I set aside that I could wear if I lost the weight I gained on Zyprexa. So that's good enough for me. Back to baseline, so to speak. I don't have an eating problem so much as I have an exercise problem but it is considered a purging calories through exercise so it's still considered an ED. In college I was diagnosed anorexia-purging type but the guidelines for diagnosing anorexia were different in that version of the DSM, the diagnosis came from me weighing too little, losing my cycle, there were other changes to the DSM criteria but I don't remember them.

As for me, I'm still recovering from that sinus?/upper respiratory infection?/whatever? infection. I really should not have exercised today, but what did I do? Take a power walk, though not as far as I normally go. I still have a sore throat, postnasal drip, sinus pressure, ear pressure, and for good measure, I have the type of killer backache that presages a period. Wonderful.

I was busy this morning, read with the SAD lamp a bit, cut up & sauteed chicken & sausage and diced onions & green bell pepper and minced garlic & chopped parsley to prepare for dinner (jambalaya). It makes it so much easier to have all that done in advance as mornings are generally easier for me. I folded laundry, drew 2 pics but my dove got stained with coffee, no coming back from that (still posted in the creative corner). Just had lunch and I have to get the dishwasher started and fold yet another load of clothes from H (luckily much smaller). Then, I don't know, but I think I may take some Benadryl and try to nap. I am exhausted!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

I drew a BOO cat as well just because I felt like it