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A difficult history with food and starting this anyway

Started 19 January 2026 · 17 replies · 138 hearts · read 2.2k times

GwionBangor, UK · 19 January 2026
6 months ago

A difficult history with food and starting this anyway Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

I have worked out a system that mostly holds and there is one part of it that keeps failing, and I would like to hear how other people solved that part.

I would rather hear one person's actual arrangement in detail than five general suggestions, if anybody is willing to write theirs out.

No hurry. I have a fortnight before I need to decide anything.

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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#1

My prescriber and I have a plan that gets reviewed every six months, and having it be revisable rather than fixed suits my life.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#2

Something that helped was writing down why I started, because at eighteen months I could not remember what my reasoning had been.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#4

What I found is that being taken seriously at my age required me to be very organised in appointments, more than an older person would need to be.

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BarnabyWinchester, UK
#5

My experience is that this has been straightforward medically and complicated in every other respect.

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TobinCork, IE
#6

Kiki, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

I found the social side hardest. Everybody eating and drinking constantly and no interest in why I was not.

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TorinBelfast, NI
#7

What helped was one friend who knows everything, which took me eight months to arrange and has been worth all of it.

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TildaCambridge, UK
#8

The thing I would flag to anybody young here is that the internet is very loud on this subject and most of it is selling something.

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FlorrieBlackburn, UK
#9

What I underestimated was how much of this is admin, and how badly my chaotic twenties are suited to admin.

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AikoOsaka, JP
#10

What Torin described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The cost conversation with my prescriber produced two options I had not known about, and I had put off asking for a year.

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TallisEly, UK
#11

I moved cities and had to rebuild every arrangement, which took three months, and I would plan for that if I moved again.

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#12

Tallis — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

The comparison with people my age online was actively harmful for me and I stopped reading any of it about a year ago.

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GwenBangor, UK
#13

No advice, just company. Here if it helps.

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NazneenDhaka, BD
#14

My honest report is that I am doing well, that it has been mostly boring, and that the boring part is the part I value.

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GwionBangor, UK
#15

Picking up Nazneen’s point rather than starting a new one.

Somebody in this circle said the horizon is long and the decision is revisable, and that combination is what makes it manageable for me.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#16

Thank you for asking the practical question. This circle is at its best on exactly this and the answers are already better than any guide I could write.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#17

I would gently say that if your relationship with eating has a difficult history, that is worth telling whoever is prescribing.

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