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    Default strange things you get addicted to?

    i think i have posted something about this before...but atm i am ADDICTED to jawbreaker bubble gum.

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    these!! omg...i cant get enough...im going throu like 10 packs a day which cant be good

    heres the problem:

    im struggling atm and dont tend to eat in the day apart from anything but these. I know that isnt good but i have this negative voice of anoxica telling me that these willmake me fat and ugly. So then i rescrit more. Then i munch away at these and feel guilty. Im in this stupid trap i cant get out of. Truth is... i feel that these are the only things that are keeping me going atm...

    i dont know im so confused atm...

    Does anyone else have these strange things that they are atticted to?

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    I'm obsessed with buying a particular type of barbeque sauce, it has to be that brand and it has to be that exact one. It helps that it's low calorie and 0% fat, but I'm just obsessed with having it just to have it, even if I'm not using it. I bought the last one on the shelf today at the shop and I felt so safe and good about that. My obsessions come and go, but they are so intense, this one is a cheap one, but I've spent so much money on 'my' food in the past.

    This sounds silly but I am addicted to owning books. It frightens me to not have a book with me at all times, I can shut myself away from people holding it up to my face, people don't approach you when you're reading and I can escape from my mind by intensely reading. I don't have an eating disorder, depression or obsessions when I read as I am too busy reading. I buy so many books, I know I can't possibly read them all but they're so safe.

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    Default strange things you get addicted to?

    I'm addicted to candy. Like, it can even be a safe food for me, regardless of the sugar and fat calories. I have rituals with it and everything, and I can easily eat several bags in under two hours.

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    I remember them jawbreakers from when i was a kid! I am shocked they are still doing them. They always reminded me of ed edd and eddy cos theyre ultimate prize was a humungous jawbreaker. I didnt like them cos i was scared theyd hurt my teeth cos i cant suck on things, i have to bite; Like them mints aswell. I couldnt do the fruitpastel challenge

    Im addicted to sugar. i cant go a single day without it and if i just go a couple of hours i get headache and really short tempered and hate everyone. every other day im buying a bag of sugar. Thats just at home! Its not funny i want to stop but i cant be dealing with the withdrawel symptoms so i just stick with it.
    Sometimes when things are falling apart..

    They may actually be falling into place.

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    Ditto on the candy. Love of my life. Half a sandwhich is way too scary, but a bag of skittles I can do.

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    Ever since my eating disorder started, I've gone through food ruts where I obsessively eat one food at the exclusion of basically everything else. I'll eat that one thing to excess for months, abruptly get tired of it, and never eat it again. It's not because they're "safe" (I don't have safe or unsafe foods); I just really like that one food and want to have it all the time.

    For the better part of a year, oatmeal consisted of at least 1/3 to 1/2 of my daily caloric intake. Then I moved onto Luna White Macadamia bars. Then Quest Cookies 'N Creme Bars. Right now, Quest Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars constitute 1-2 to 3/4 of my calories. It's really terrible I'm trying to break from the habit, but... fuck I love those things. (Thankfully, once I get tired of the Chocolate Chip bars, I'll be done with Quest bars forever because the other varieties taste like shit.)

    The worst part about these food ruts is that I'm not even restricting :X I haven't eaten below 1400 since I came out of residential almost two years ago. I really do eat a ton of Quest bars. I am pretty sure that the shopkeepers around here think I'm some kind of freak.

    Come to think of it, I do the same thing with music. Obsessively listen to one band for months and then rarely listen to them again. I've barely listened to anything other than Electric Light Orchestra and JAM Project for the past year.
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    I get in those same food ruts and it drives me crazy.
    Like at one point I was obsessed with eating carrots to the point where I started to turn organism. It was so bad.
    Right now it's apples and popcorn- the people who work in the school food store pretty much know what I'm getting every day now and give me the dirtiest looks (or at least, I feel like they're dirty looks idk though)
    The amounts of apples I eat in a week, let alone a day, is disgusting.... Why do I do this to myselffffff

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    This may sound strange but I use to hoard food.

    I use to buy all my safe foods and keep them in my room. Low calorie chocolate drinks, low calorie biscuits, apples, Special K porridge etc.. NO ONE was allowed eat them. Or I would get pissed if anyone so much as looked at my food xD

    I am also obsessed with fruit salad. When I go food shopping I always buy the same foods. I love buying pots of fruit salad and pouring yoghurt over it.

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    I work part time at a fast food restaurant anddddd the soda machine they have there is AWESOME!

    They seriously have every light & diet drink imaginable. I drink the same 5 every shift in the same order: light lemonade, diet gingerale, diet sweet tea, diet sprite grape flavor, dasani lime.

    I love diet drinkssssssssssssssssss

    Oh and I'm addicted to the hills bros cappuccino mixes-- white chocolate caramel & english toffee are my favorite though.

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    Oh god, you work in a place with one of those machines? I would be in heaven. I fucking love those soda machines. They're the best. They have them at the movie theatre close to my apartment, and I swear it's the best thing about going to the theatre. Way better than actually seeing the movie.

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