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speaking of comparing

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Last night we were discussing how ed thinkiong has us looking at everyone and thinking that they must have and ed too if they are skinny. Has anyone experienced something like this. (First time I have had the courage to share this fkd up thinking). Whenever I have to fly or get into a car that I have not been in before i am in a total panick that i will have to make the seatbelt bigger because that means that the person who sat there before me was thinner. It actually messes me up for days!
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i do this too. I can walk down the street and think she's bigger or she's thinner. If i see a lot of people who are what i consider thinner (which according to my hubby mostly aren't)I panic and think i must lose more weight and punish myself. I know how messed up it sounds but i think its the ed talking trying to give me an excuse to b/p more. I know its not rational but i always do it.
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i definitely do/think those things too. It gets REALLY annoying when i'm tring to do my best not to judge, plus it doesn't help recovery one bit!

-Debbie
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i've never done that..but hey most people don't wear a seat belt so just tell yourself that and just don't think about anyone who coulda been there before you...just think that you're the first one..you can't compare yourself to nothing right??? And you really shouldn't compare yourself in that way anyway because everyones body is different....
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I remember walking in the park with my best guy friend, and out of the blue saying: "See, look at that girl...I wish I were as thin as her."

He just looked at me aghast, and said: "Lily, you're probably 20 pounds lighter."

Wake up call.
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You could be reading my mind. I compare myself to everybody, and constantly feel the need to seek out the thinnest person in the room. The pathetic thing is that it is never me, and I spend the rest of the day berating myself for it...
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