If you were suicidal at all this year, or any year in the past, and are alive right now for Christmas and new years then I just wanna say I am so freaking proud of you. Me and thousands of other people are. You are amazing, strong, and definitely made the right choice.

Please make the right choice next year, and in all the years to come as well. 

Merry Christmas. 

How to Bounce back after a Binge!

1. Don’t purge. I know it’s really hard to hold back from it, especially if you’ve done it before, but it will not benefit you in any way.

2. Don’t reduce your calorie intake for tomorrow (or any of the days following) to nothing. It might seem like a logical plan, but if you restrict tomorrow, you’ll never get into a normal cycle of eating. You’ll be constantly ricocheting between binge and purge, starve and binge, purge and starve. You’ll never be eating normally.

3. Remember that it takes 3500 EXCESS calories to gain a pound. This means 3500 calories on top of what your body already requires to function on a day-to-day basis. It’s highly unlikely your stomach can even hold this much, much less double that, so it’s very unlikely you’ll gain more than two pounds from this! Your progress is not back at zero. Your efforts so far are not null. This is just a little bump in the road.

4. Put on comfy clothes. Honestly. Tight clothes will just make you feel worse. Feeling bad = more binging. Take off those tight jeans, and put on some cozy sweats.

5. Use your binge as a learning experience. What triggered it? Did you feel out of control? Did you actually want all the food you were eating, or were you just eating for eating’s sake? Did you even like the taste of some of it? Do you think you binged because you deprived yourself of a treat you wanted earlier? Did you binge because you’ve been starving all day and just couldn’t take it anymore? Try and understand your binge, understand what your mind went through when your hands were reaching for all that food. The more you can understand the reasons behind your binge, the better you’ll be next time at preventing them—when you’re standing in the middle of a binge, it actually has nothing to do with willpower, it’s usually the result of decisions you made much earlier. For more information on how your brain can trick you into binging when its not getting enough nutrients, click here and here.

6. Remember that you are NOT a failure, bad for eating, undeserving of life, or ugly because you decided to give yourself what you really wanted.

Now for the fun part.

Tomorrow, wake up all bright and sunny. Leap right out of bed (Note: when wondering how to get out of bed, the answer is always “leap.”) Have a delicious bowl of healthy for breakfast and get really excited about feeling awesome all day because of all the healthy food you’re going to bless your body with. Take a walk, if you’d like to. Smile all day long. Drink some water. 

But don’t purge and don’t restrict. Eat how you’d normally eat, cause you’re a normal eating healthy person who does not fall prey to freak eating cycles. You don’t need that shit, look at you, you’re hot as hell.

Needed this today

My therapist told me something meaningful yesterday, she said “It’s important to remember that when you’re depressed you have to nurse yourself and be extra gentile towards yourself. Just like an athlete wouldn’t break an ankle then force themselves to run that ankle. They rest as it heals and do not think “I am a failed athelete” they think, “right now something isn’t working so i’ll take care of myself until it does.“ 

Just like a broken bone, depression can change the way your daily life plays out, and pushing yourself too hard and getting frustrated when you don’t feel better is just like trying to run on that broken ankle and getting frustrated when it doesn’t heal.

Read this. Then read it again. And then save it and read it over and over when you are depressed.

Life Lessons by Tina Belcher

ATTENTION ALL MY TRANS AND NB FOLLOWERS.

any of you who bind or are currently looking for a binder, please buy from gc2b-apparel.

Underworks are a widely used brand and considered pretty safe, but binding doesn’t have to hurt, or be unsafe!

this brand of binders have been created by trans people for trans people. they are EXTREMELY comfortable and breathe super easy.

not to mention they get you 10x flatter than Underworks or other popular brands. and they run about the same price as Underworks.

I sound like an infomercial lmao but seriously I just want to make sure everyone out there is binding safely and happily!

I’ve literally never had a more comfy binder and the actual binding part actually comes down further than Underworks tritop binders so you won’t have that awful “boob poking out the bottom” thing, for the more busty people out there.

Meet Caitlyn Jenner

Jenner told the world we would be meeting her new persona soon — and now, she’s here. After blazing a trail for transgender rights, Jenner (formerly known as Bruce) has introduced herself on the new cover of Vanity Fair — and she looks positively stunning.

The piece is the first time Jenner is using her new chosen name and gender pronouns. In the piece, she opens up more about her reasoning behind coming out. 

SO AMAZING! 

William Chapman (via illumiaow)

Tweets from bands/band members to remember if you’re feeling shitty

read it could save you

I don’t know if this post has been made yet but I just want to warn everybody that if someone stops you in a parking lot and asks you if you’re interested in some perfume and hands you a paper to smell, PLEASE DON’T SMELL IT.

i repeat, DON’T SMELL IT.

Apparently the sample papers are being laced with a drug to knock you out. Please signal boost this. It can save someone’s life!

IMPORTANT

please repost to save people idc if “its not my blog type” jUST DO IT

Super important please repost

Who the fuck would actually be stupid enough to smell it though????

some people have anxiety triggered impulses to execute tasks suggested by strangers, and will not properly think theirs actions through unless they have been told what to do beforehand

plus, some people are more gullible than others but that doesn’t make them stupid. they just don’t know any better. it’s not like these kind of drugs are talked about anyway, most people learn about their existence watching detective shows

i just dont get why ignorant people will say that acne is caused by not drinking enough water or just being unhealthy. like if you were actually EDUCATED on the subject of acne, you’d realize that it can be caused by stress, hormones, certain medications (including birth control), & genetics. so don’t let these fake deep pineapple-eating fiji water-drinking cornballs tell you any differently

three years ago i was trapped in an awful relationship with a toxic person who blamed me for her drug addition. i had to break up over the phone because every other time i’d tried to break up in person, she had coerced me into staying.

this wednesday my boyfriend drove 45 minutes out of his way just to give me coffee during my long work day like i didn’t have time to do anything but hug him and thank him. when i was close to tears with gratitude, he shrugged and said, “of course.”

things get better. you will go from standing in the shower thinking “god what if this is for the rest of my life” to “god, i hope this is for the rest of my life.” hold on, okay?

This weekend, activists in Uganda - a country where homosexuality is punishable by death - held their first Pride. 

This is the epitome of courage. I have no other words. 

this is making me tear up holy shit

All these lovely ladies weigh 154lbs. We all carry weight differently, don’t live your life by an outdated chart. Find a number that looks and feels good.

TAKE A GOOD LOOK. WEIGHT COMES IN DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES.

This is actually a really lovely artistic reference as well. Also HOLY SHIT NEW REBLOG SYSTEM??? dang.

I´m gonna get him (Source: http://ift.tt/1c5S89V)

Jenna McDougall, 5.23.15 Future Hearts Tour NYC