RR: Eating Disorder Management

I don’t have an eating disorder, but have gained a lot of weight related to mental health issues. Sometimes I eat to avoid or just to self soothe. I’m not sure if their nourishly app might be a better fit, but this app works for me. I use another app to count calories, but when I’m feeling lazy or overwhelmed, I tend to stick to this log more often. I love the daily backgrounds and the motivational rewards at the end of each log. I wasn’t using the coping methods and goal setting functions until recently, because I didn’t want to complicate the already seamless functions. But, after I added a bunch of the preset clinical tools, it just seemed to work automatically. You can personalize your food log so that it doesn’t show certain eating disorder questions, if they’re not relevant, and you can set your own goals and coping tools based on your own triggers. Assigning my mood at each food log had been very useful for me as a mood journal in general, to be more mindful, since doing it along with meals makes me log more often than I normally would. It’s a great combination to keep track of food and mood together. And as stated, the focus on mental health in this app has been very useful to me. I recommend it for anyone that wants to focus on these two aspects of life in one place.

Eating disorders are really emotionally charged and are hard to work on because for many it’s a coping skill of dealing with other emotionally difficult life experiences. This app was recommended to me by an eating disorder center/clinic and it’s really in depth and if you actually follow through and do the thought diary you provide insight to your recovery process once you are able to review the past days, weeks, months,years, and you’re able to understand the triggers of what’s going on in your life that has lead you to binges (in my case) or other symptoms that better explain your struggle. You have to want to do the work, if it becomes a chore and you’re getting annoyed with it then it’s going to be a rough road from my experience as if it’s a chore for Me then I’m not 100% in it or am on that path towards recovery. Turned out to be more motivational I guess but it’s a great app and it’s FREE!!!!! Do the work and have the appropriate support necessary for your recovery and it will make a difference for you, I hope!

I never learned how to properly eat and as an adult at age 51 it was time. What I was eating and not eating had taken it’s toll on my health. I learned through the words of a top notch a dietician that I have “disordered eating.” Essentially I have a diet mentality with all that I ate or restricted. These sessions with my Dietician are incredibly eye opening. I gained enough weight for diabetes type 2, neuropathy, horrific IBS, and a completely broken view of food. One of the most important tools that I was given the choice to use was this amazing app. I’m a huge procrastinator (except for my business).. especially when it’s anything to do with being healthy. Until now! This app is simple, fun, thought provoking, wise, motivational and challenging all in one. It’s helping this food junkie completely change what, how and when I eat. It’s not restrictive and not a diet app. It’s a life app that is teaching me much more on a daily basis. This is unlike any app I have ever used. 5 stars and my highest possible rating for ease of use, reliability, and beauty.

I love this app. I have been using it a couple days and it’s a gear way to store all the inspirations, journals, quotes, coping skills I need at mealtimes, etc in one spot plus the build your own meditation is AWESOME and I love the little inspiration section - I only gave it 4 instead of 5 stars because I would love to see that in that section a bit more ability to personalize just like in the other sections. I am not a huge fan of some of the quotes and inspirations to choose from and I have tons I would want to use that I could add there that would be much more meaningful to me. Also images. But it’s ok. You can submit them for community review or log them in another part of the app, but I would like to just have them there for myself even if they aren’t for the community. Also would like the little scrapbook to have a few more options for personalization, but do love that you have to complete challenges to use it. Motivation!!

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I started using the app not too long ago and I really liked it especially like the first week or so. I had some time off work and figured it was a good opportunity to try to help myself since I have a weird work schedule and sometimes that makes remembering to eat, let alone having the motivation to eat, difficult. What I found though was when I went back to work my meal reminders kept creeping up earlier and earlier and now my breakfast notification that I set for 6:30 literally pops up at 4:30 in the morning which is basically the busiest part of my morning. That’s not the only notification that does that either. Basically every notification that I set around my work schedule goes off at the most inconvenient times. It’s just super frustrating because I did set them for when I should be eating. It’s such a small thing but it really discouraged me from using the app and it doesn’t really help if I’m trying to get myself to remember to eat in the first place