I cant join in. . .

[Midnight Dream]

This is really upsetting for me because I used to love going out for meals and such with friends and family. But since my disordered eating which is down to my Emet, I am too scared to even eat out down to the fact of food poisioning etc. The many times I have had to miss out on going out to eat with my family. I just want this phobia to stop. . . Does anyone get this where they cant eat out due to Emet? Thank You x

[jazzy]

that happens to me. i usually just try to eat only veggies or something that doesnt go bad that easy. that helps but doesnt make the worrying stop.

[CourtneyCoo]

Well I try not to worry when I go out to somewhere like boston pizza perkins and all that, because I usually worry about food poisoning, but I tell myself to remember that its a safe restaurant and the food is cooked thoroughly and I have nothing to worry about, I sometimes do worry when I get to a friends house or even a family members, how cooked the meat is and all that, so im still working on that one

[jazzy]

yeah i do a lot of reassuring.

[PearlescentAngel]

I've been like this before. You can't really rush yourself into going and getting out....but I stopped being afraid after going out to eat with a friend of mine and my mom. That friend is so mind numbingly hilarious I ate everything on my plate without thinking of it and haven't been scared to eat out since. That was after 6-8 months of not eating out ANYWHERE and then suddenly there was an epiphany.

You will get there. Just remember if people got food poisoning every time they went out to eat there wouldn't be any restaurants in business. That being said, I still won't eat most people's cooking who are not running a business. But some of those people....even if I DIDN'T have emet I probably still wouldn't eat at their place. YECH.

[ssjj]

I found that starting with 'safe' foods helps a lot to gain the trust of restaurants and to start eating out. I started with only vegetarian dishes like hot veggies and pasta/rice, things that are pretty safe not to cause fp* and when I felt ready, moved onto some meat. Step by step, start to be a little braver when you eat out if you feel like it maybe?

[Midnight Dream]

Thank you I will try and se how I feel the next time I go out to eat. Like you said I could try possible eating pasta or hot veggies, my CAMHS worker regularly reassures me that you cant get *fp from veggies or pasta or bread etc etc. Oh god ii really hate this phobia