Eat Food Today!

naps wrote:

solemnlysworn wrote:These reminders from Dulcet have gotten me to eat at least 1 meal a day since she started them which is more than I was managing to remember beforehand. Appreciated.

She should make it an app.

Concerning body image, I always wished I was bulkier, but any attempt to gain weight always settles in my gut and nowhere else.

Since most posters here are reclusive, I'm curious to know how important body image is. Do any of you never bother looking in mirrors? Do you forgo certain hygienic or grooming rituals if you know know you're not going to be seen for days? Any dysmorphic tendencies?

Agreed about the app.

I'm in the normal range weight-wise, however I would get a half-@$$ed version of ED when I consumed too much to keep up energy. I'd wind up exercising a lot in secret for instance. I live with someone though, so that was mainly to keep him from noticing weight gain and fussing over it in concern. He fusses a lot without me worrying him...

I'm hygienic, but do the bare minimum in regards to grooming. If I know I won't be around people for days, it's a good chance I won't bother to look at my reflection, I'll be in a robe or something equally easy to slip on. I don't believe I have any dysmorphia issues. Few years back I was way overweight (near 200), and I never felt depressed about it either, simply annoyed. I went from working fast food to a desk job (both were over 8 hours a day) and had a husband at the time who was a chef.

I figure if I ever lost too much I'd get worried of if it's an unhealthy weight, but that's about it.

I ate some chili and now I'm in the bathroom every twenty to thirty minutes

naps wrote:Since most posters here are reclusive, I'm curious to know how important body image is. Do any of you never bother looking in mirrors? Do you forgo certain hygienic or grooming rituals if you know know you're not going to be seen for days? Any dysmorphic tendencies?

I forgot what my face looks like for a little while. I didn't like that imagining myself in my head was different to looking at myself in the mirror. I wasn't an idealised version of myself in my head. Just different. So I didn't like taking photos. Gotten over that now though through a blast of exposure to mirrors and photos it's fine.

Hygiene goes out of the window frequently. I can be a disgusting slob.

I wish I had more weight to me. I'd put on maybe 10kg and go back to my army weight which was ideal. I'm about 65 now which is underweight for my height (6'2). My chest and shoulders are naturally pretty wide/broad so with a tiny 28inch waist I have a good shape but look kind like I starve myself which is vaguely accurate.

I don't think I have a dysmorphia. My pics for reference: https://imgur.com/a/tPRAs
But I have been more conscious of being underweight recently. It undermines my ability to get quick sex when I want it.

This is me at my very worst when I wasnt eating at all
https://imgur.com/a/jAJuR

naps wrote:Do any of you never bother looking in mirrors? Do you forgo certain hygienic or grooming rituals if you know know you're not going to be seen for days? Any dysmorphic tendencies?

Reclusive, yes. No to all of the above.

And because it is a new day, we shall eat again!

naps wrote:Since most posters here are reclusive, I'm curious to know how important body image is. Do any of you never bother looking in mirrors? Do you forgo certain hygienic or grooming rituals if you know know you're not going to be seen for days? Any dysmorphic tendencies?

When I know I'm not going to be seen for about a week, I won't have a shower for a week. I don't have much facial hair and the hair on my head just gets a same-length-all-over 3 mm cut from time to time, so there isn't much grooming involved for me. But neither do I bother about just that little bit of necessary grooming as long as I don't have to face anyone. Already for some time now, I've been thinking about growing some facial hair in a way that would actually highlight the thin looks of my face, but the necessary grooming involved just feels like too much effort to me, so sadly, it will likely never come from it.

I was an ugly, funny-looking child and I got a lot of shlt for it. Thankfully I grew into my face and body by high school but for years every time I looked in the mirror I saw an adult version of that goofy kid. Not literally, but I exaggerated my bad features with my eyes and mind. I look at pictures taken of me in my twenties and think I looked fine, but at the time they were taken, these same pictures looked hideously embarrassing to me. I think this has less to do with dysmorphia than AvPD traits.

solemnlysworn wrote:This is me at my very worst when I wasnt eating at all
https://imgur.com/a/jAJuR

You looked like Jessica Rabbit!

Skinny waist compared to hips

I have that too. It's annoying. Hard to find pants that fit well.

As for hygiene, I'm lucky I have OCD or else I'd have flies all over me. I'm scruffy, but very hygienic. I wash my hands and brush my teeth constantly. I clip my fingernails way too short because I hate the feeling of something being under them, but I let my toenails get too long before I cut them.
My hair is no problem because I keep it short. I use deodorant only when necessary, never when I'm home alone. I'm phobic of chemicals and there's no need to swab my skin with that crap and let whatever's in it absorb subcutaneously. I shower regularly because of the hygiene thing, but also because I can feel the dead skin cells on me and I hate that.

Mhmm. I only start to take that shape when my waist drops below 27inches. At 28 I have equal widt. Never been a 30. Maybe that should be my goal

solemnlysworn wrote:Never been a 30. Maybe that should be my goal

Give it about 25 years.

Yay Food!