A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: One thing few who have not been through recovery from an eating disorder can appreciate is just how mentally all consuming and draining it is… alongside the emotional charge to it!! Recovering from restrictive eating causes ongoing thoughts of food as the starved […]
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Posts related to all things eating disorder recovery.
When I am doubting the need to eat more in recovery from this restrictive eating disorder, I find it helpful to reflect back on the Minnesota Starvation Experiment and the experiences of these men who were ‘semi-starved’ during the war. The behaviours they exhibited at the time of the experiment and in recovery when allowed […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: One thing I’ve noticed since starting this renewed recovery effort is that now I’m consistently eating more and my brain is slowly trusting more food is coming regularly, I’m more relaxed about eating faster and less mindfully too. When deep in restricted eating […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: Today my parents went out to a garden centre with my grandparents and returned with these chocolates for me that was a special gift, chosen specially for me by my 95 year old, very much loved Grandad. Of course my grandparents know about […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: I want to start talking a bit more about some of the other eating disorder symptoms, aside from the food related ones, that often get overlooked – all that weird stuff those of us with an eating disorder often do without realising for […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: I have been thinking about recovery motivation this evening… I’ve recently returned from some time away travelling (trying to run from the eating disorder – unfortunately it doesn’t work as the illness kept following!)…I love travelling and being able to travel freely and […]
Break every rule!!! How many times if you have an eating disorder has the automatic response, before you even know it’s happened, to an offering of food been a firm,“No, thank you!”…?? Is it time to actually piss off that side of your brain and when offered cake say, “yes please… and double helpings!!!”… Show […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: This was a large triple chocolate cookie I had as I was starting to re-dip my toe into eating disorder recovery waters a few weeks ago…I had bought the cookie with all good intentions and then kept it at home too scared to […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: We talk a lot about the food side of eating disorder recovery and the new food hurdles we are jumping and delicious cuisine we are enjoying… but we often fail to talk about the fact that recovery is not all fun and games!! […]
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About The Butter…
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: Let me talk about butter… I think many of us with an eating disorder develop fears and avoidance of many food types and a common one is butter or spreads on bread / toast / bagels / pancakes etc etc Despite eating much […]
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Little Reminders…
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: Keep going, keep munching…Don’t question what or when or why.Don’t think about what you had earlier or will have later.Don’t even let the notion pass your mind that eating should be compensated for.Trust your body to know what it wants and to do […]
Have you ever felt like reaching a full recovery is impossible???Perhaps you can believe it of others but not yourself? Life within the grips of an eating disorder is confusing, overwhelming and frightening but finding a way out is equally mystifying at times and can in dark moments feel impossible. Understanding what life recovered might […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: After a really good day of eating yesterday with much less interference from the eating disorder side of my brain, today has been tougher. I’ve still done ok but it’s not been as easy and the anxiety and restrictive thoughts have been stronger. […]
A Post Originally Written For Instagram Towards The Start Of My Recovery: Today is the start of a new week and I wanted to start it with a bang in terms of eating disorder recovery! Overcoming an eating disorder can feel like a painfully slow process at times and the go low and slow approach […]
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Maya Angelou Quote
Every day… actually every new moment of each day is an opportunity to make things better. In recovery or with any mental illness it is a day by day or often hour by hour rollercoaster and at times the anguish, pain, tears and frustration can be overwhelming and intense. However, nothing in life stays the […]
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