OCD is not always a terrible thing :)

#21

So how it was explained to me, is if you have OCD that has manifested itself, and not just a tendency toward it, it will interfere with your ability to function. Like you will miss work, or others will start noticing it, it will impact the ability for you to be present in your life etc… I never thought I had it because my checking and cleaning was never that bad, I didn’t realize I had it until I was diagnosed and I had an episode that really interfered with my life. If you have it, you know.

Just trying to be helpful for others. I didn’t think you were looking for help, though. I think people tend to oversimplify OCD and don’t understand how hurtful it is when people say “OMG I’m so OCD, I cleaned my kitchen last night” to someone with OCD who cleans their kitchen for 3 days straight. I appreciate that you can recognize it’s not OCD, just you being healthy. :grinning:

#22

I don’t think that’s obsessive, that’s just good hygiene. :slight_smile:

(bulkbiker) #23

Ouch that checking the door 3 times hit home… and yes I too can’t understand the “cheat” thing … who are they cheating… their own health?
I think that’s why I find carnivore so easy…

#24

For me, it’s acknowledging the door is locked. I tend to do it so quickly, that I realize I never acknowledged it was locked. Just going through the motions. But when I tell myself (my brain), “This door is locked.”, then I can walk away from it.

If I don’t do that, then yeah, I’m checking it 3 or 4 times. I have literally video taped myself checking the doors at the office, before I leave, because I have literally gone back to the office at 9:00 in the evening to make sure the doors were locked. :slight_smile:

#25

Same here. I’m not OCD but I do have this insatiable hunger to learn to the point if obsession.

(hottie turned hag) #26

@FishChris erm…yeah. I have the obsessiveness, not the compulsiveness so much though I do feel like my door isn’t locked if I am talking to someone when I leave or adjusting a purse or doing anything OTHER THAN locking the door. Extrapolate that to pretty much…everything. Having to attend to more than one stimulus at a time feels like my brain was just zapped with a cattle prod. This goes more to my sensory issues I think, though.

The obsessiveness is most deffo an aid in my keto eating! It prevents cheating, like, completely. I have never done so since starting Aug 2017, not once, not even a speck.
Not because I’m such a good Do-Bee, but because I cannot do anything partially. One of my obsessive symptoms is about having to complete a task and I obsess on it until it is completed; this also happens with anything pending like a meeting or appointment and makes waiting for anything, torture.

I also have a perfectionistic aspect to it therefore I purposely did/do not track nor count anything nor own a scale as I’d be tracking, counting and weighing many times per day and if anything was slightly off, becoming anxious about it. So I just don’t even go there.

#whenyourpathologyisaboon

(Marianne) #27

You are right; my apologies for making light of a disorder that impacts a lot of people and can be very debilitating.

(Dirty Lazy Keto'er, Sucralose freak ;)) #28

Blue Violet ! You sound so much like me ! :slightly_smiling_face: Lol
I just don’t even know how to do something part way. I either don’t do it at all, it I go all out !
I use to always say, “Go big, or go home”

Yeah, I never counted cals , or macros before when I was… I dunno… amateur bodybuilding ?
Except just once in a while to get an idea… But I already knew what worked for me… Less than 4000 cals a day and I’d lose fat, but I’d be ravenous too. Over 4800 and I’d start to put weight on… But I was still always starving !
That was the biggest problem for me with my old fitness diet. I just could not get full. I’d eat until my gut was popping out from under my ribs ! It was all food if course and by the next morning it would be flat, and I’d start all over.

Sure wish I’d have been able to start my Keto lifestyle, at the height of my best conditioning 4 years ago !

Maybe I would have been able to hit my goal of 230lbs at 9% BF… And better yet, maybe I would not have been so darn hungry constantly !

(Dirty Lazy Keto'er, Sucralose freak ;)) #29

Hey, I make fun of myself… If my GF doesn’t beat me to it :slightly_smiling_face:
OCD can look really silly to those around you.