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If I count calories, I spend much time trying to work out how many calories in a one-meal-sized helping of whatever the hell I cooked up for work lunches this week, and noting down every single Hershey's Kiss and Pringle that passes my lips, and generally making myself crazy.

If I count calories where people can see, I risk triggering people with histories of disordered eating. If I don't count calories where people can see, I don't count calories.

If I don't count calories, paying particular attention to making sure the total is somewhere up in the 1800s-2000s, many days I don't eat enough, and some days I miss meals altogether.

You know, it's a good thing I'm not diabetic. I might be in serious trouble if I were.

Also, given the quantity of carbs I stuffed in my face an hour ago, can my blood sugar stop being pits now? Also also, since I don't think I can physically eat any more tonight, can the hungry feeling fuck off already?

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I don't have the best advice to any of this, but so far as doing it where people can see but not be triggered: Can you create a filter on DW with people who have opted in, so that anyone who has issues with it can absolutely avoid it, but you've still got some kind of audience for it?

Could do, yes. It'd duplicate a lot of my health filter, and I don't like having a lot of different access filters to keep track of, but that isn't exactly a problem on the order of triggering someone.

There's also the option of a seperate journal, or doing a tumblr or something, but I don't know if that'd be harder to keep track of than filters for you or not.

Whatever it comes down to, even if it's IMing people at random -- I have no eating issues, so if you need to find someones to poke about this, I'm more than willing to be on the shortlist.

Nodnod. Thanks much.

I second this. (I'm not going to opt-in - I'm not quite at history-of-disordered-eating, but counting-calories is a pretty big stressor for me, and my ability to cope with it varies wildly. Right now I can deal, tomorrow, next week: who knows.)

I will note that being my current weight (very overweight), and physically active, and breastfeeding, means my calorie requirement to not-lose-weight is something around 3000-3500 a day. And that feeling of being full but still hungry is horrible, and I utterly sympathise.

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I guess just for FYI purposes - I count calories (or 'round' calories when I'm being lazy) so I am a safe person to chat about this with if you just need to vent, and PMs or emails are fine too! (You've got my email, right?)

I...might have your email? No, I don't think I do. I have SPN Bitesized Hosting's email, which I think is you, but which I also doubt is checked much anymore.

Thanks for telling me.

I'm not sure if brainstorming/advice is welcome, here -- if it is, I'm happy to talk ideas, and if not I totally understand. (I'm accessible on AIM as AtlanteanMage and gchat as niqaeli@gmail.com, as well as obviously via gmail.)

Regardless, this is rough and I sympathise. I've had times when I was behind the calorie curve and hit the over-full while still hungry and it's fucking awful because there's so little you can DO about it. :/

Thanks.

You don't really know me, but as someone who guesstimates calories with some varying degree of dedication every day, may I recommend Sparkpeople? It's free, and I find it to be the right amount of accountability/level of accuracy without making me get obsessed or causing me to annoy people who don't want to hear about it.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

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