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llleesmess · 4 months

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some steady ways to recover from an 3ating D1s0rder :)

tip 1 : monitor your thoughts. Back then when i’ve had severe bulimia, i’ve had negative thoughts flooding my mind and they almost seemed impulsive or intrusive. Everytime i looked at food all i could think about were negative thoughts. Some ways to combat this is to accept that you are not your thoughts. Accept the thought, let it pass, and replace it with a positive one to combat it.

Ex : “i really need to stop eating so much…” to “my body deserves to be nourished and taken care of.”

tip 2: i know how difficult it is to increase portion because of how stubborn our minds have gotten. They say that mental strain is more torturous than physical strain. If you’d like, try to eat healthier foods but more often, and reward yourself with chocolate once/ twice a week. It can make our hearts feel heavy with guilt, i know, but it’s also helping our heart beat is it not? try to respond more logically than emotionally and slowly increase food intake by eating healthier stuff more often. Have junk food on weekends (babe i promise you don’t gain from eating junk on a weekend, our body’s don’t work like that!)

tip 3: Let’s be realistic. We’re more likely to gain weight faster if we starve ourselves since our body is doing whatever it can to cling onto calories since you’re not giving it enough! so in order to recover from this slowly without triggering yourself or gaining weight, **slowly** increase food intake. have around 4 meals a day and i’m not saying a single cucumber or strawberry but make yourself a small dish. Your appetite must’ve shrunken from all the starving so to slowly help it accept food, have small dishes of food often. 4 to 5 meals of let’s just say a bowl of vegetables/ fruits/ protein is good. Carbs are also very important! Carbs give us energy to move and work throughout the day.

tip 4: You’re capable of setting beauty standards for yourself, we all are. It’s why we have beauty standards all around the world, for example : in most asian countries it’s beautiful to be pale while in western countries it’s beautiful to be tan! Beauty is NOT objective, it’s subjective. There’s many different flowers in a field, and all are beautiful but some prefer roses while others prefer daisies. So, instead of romanticising super skinny/ unhealthy bodies, let’s start romanticising fit bodies. Many fitness models eat a lot of food! as hard as it is to hear, they eat a lot of food but they balance it. For example they’ll have a lot of protein and vegetables and around a whole palm of rice, and that’s okay! that’s good intake for your body and it will maintain it.

tip 5: Workout! don’t get obsessed with working out or calories because general obsession isn’t good, well, too much of anything is not good. but working out has personally helped me recover since i felt less guilty about eating. walking everyday or running or home workouts are very beneficial. Eventually i stopped caring about calories as i grasped a more realistic idea of how our bodies work.

tip 6: Meditate. meditating is important to help calm our racing or impulsive negative thoughts. Practice void mediation or go on youtube and repeat positive affirmations (while meaning it.)

tip 7: Be kind to yourself! your body does a lot for you so return the favour and spoil it. Nourish and love it :)

tip 8: sometimes we are bad at advising ourselves so try to project yourself onto something else. Let’s just say you have a daughter who’s exactly like you and she’s suffering from the same thing. How would you treat her? the right thing to do is to reassure her and help her recover throughout her journey. that’s how you should treat yourself.

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llleesmess · 2 years

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reasons to recover!! and some helpful tips/qoutes/explanations on recovering ❤️‍🩹

1 find the beauty in food and enjoying food

2 higher confidence

3 realize that theres no "thin enough"

4 recognize that true beauty isn't achieved from being the skinniest but from feeling the happiest

5 become mentally stronger!!

6 trying to make food your friend, not your enemy

7 be content with your body image, accept it in its unique beautiful form. we cant all look the same and have the same body or life would be pretty boring

8 realize that most of what we try to tell ourselves when ed thoughts kick in are just glamorized lies

9 feel free spirited!! i can only imagine how much my ed has weighed down on me but recovering has made me realize that there is no standard for beautiful things <;3

10 (hearing this also helped me recover) think of yourself as a flower, you're surrounded by a ton of other pretty flowers but that NEVER made you any less prettier!!

11 "feeling guilty for eating is the same as feeling guilty for breathing" we've been taught to put away our basic needs :(

12 your self worth never depended on your weight, it only depended on your self acceptance. in my journey i got thinner and thinner but it never felt like enough, i never felt skinny enough or pretty enough so ive tortured myself over and over but that just proved to me that there never was "skinny enough" or "ill stop when im skinny enough" because having this mindset means you're never gonna feel "enough" no matter how much you avoid food.

13 dont you miss that freedom of eating whatever you want without worrying as a kid?

14 shift your focus on progress rather than perfection :)

15 perfection never existed!! we just deluded ourselves into thinking perfection could be attainable but why do you think you never felt "enough" no matter how thin you were? because perfection never existed in the first place. I believe everyones perfect just the way they are. There is no standard for "perfection"

16 (i thought this one was pretty cute) Think of your body as your best friend, its been through so much for you and i think its time to return that favor by helping it grow and rewarding it :)

good luck on your recovery journey!! its so worth it i promise💗💗 keep your mind open and always reassure yourself <3 (sometimes a little pep talk helps)

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