Reasons to Recover from Your Eating Disorder
You wonāt have to go through life worrying about every single calorie and every single meal.Ā
You can enjoy dinner with your family without panicking about it.Ā
You can live life without it revolving around food.Ā
You wonāt have to lie to the people you care about anymore.
You can actually have fun on your birthday.
Fighting with people you care about over whether or not youāve eaten is boring and painful.Ā
Because there is more to life than food.Ā
Because losing friends is not fun.Ā
You can enjoy social occasions without worrying about food.
You wonāt feel so constantly exhausted and drained all the time.
Thinking and dreaming about and being consumed by food is no way to live.
Feeling dizzy and cold and tired keeps you from living a happy, fulfilling life.
Recovery will give you the chance to LIVE and to be alive, rather than just existing.
Because you deserve to have happy thoughts in your head, instead of numbers.Ā
Your recovery can inspire and aid the recovery of others. Instead of passing on disordered behavior, you can pass on health and support and encouragement.Ā
Your skin will improve, as will your mental clarity. Eating right (and enough) can greatly help symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Because you donāt deserve to cry yourself to sleep anymore.
You deserve to be able to genuinely smile again.Ā
You deserve to be able to go outside and enjoy your day without worrying about what youāre wearing and whether or not you look okay.Ā
You wonāt have to waste money on food to binge on anymore.
Your feet and legs will stop falling asleep and going numb when you sit down.
Your hair will stop falling out.
Your skin will finally be able to heal itself. You deserve to be glowing.Ā
Itās nice to not feel like death anymore.Ā
Itās nice to not smell like vomit anymore.Ā
Itās nice to be able to go out and actually enjoy yourself again.Ā
Your general health will improve and youāll be less susceptible to colds and viruses.Ā
You wonāt have to feel guilty about breaking your promises.Ā
You wonāt have to lie to everyone around you.Ā
Youāll be able to go out and dance at parties/bars/clubs without feeling weak and dizzy.
If youāre fortunate enough to still have healthy teeth, recovery will prevent them from rotting.Ā
You are worth so much more than just a number on a scale.Ā
Itās nice to not be constantly cold and nauseous all the time.Ā
Because crying in your room is never a good way to spend a Friday night.
You can finally live without guilt. Guilt that you ate when you didnāt think you deserved to eat. Guilt that you havenāt eaten and youāre letting loved ones down. Guilt that you binged. Guilt that you purged. Guilt that deep down youāve forgotten how to love yourself.Ā
Your bones wonāt be brittle and easy to break anymore.Ā
Youāll be able to sleep at night without hunger pains keeping you awake.
Be confident again.Ā
So you donāt feel like a complete & utter hypocrite when trying to help someone that is in the same position as you.
So you can enjoy āfamily timeā & not worry about eating ābad foodā
So that you donāt spit up after eating because your esophagus is so fucked up from purging.Ā
So you donāt miss out on life.Ā
Because itās nice waking up and thinking about what art you can create, what places you can explore, what books you can read, what people you can meet, what songs you can sing, what sports you can play, instead of thinking about what youāre going to eat and not eat that day.
Watching Netflix is a lot more fun than watchingĀ āthinspirationā videos.Ā
Itās nice to wake up in the morning with energy, instead of waking up tired from not eating, or sick from binging.Ā
So that you can get up in the morning and see clearly, instead of seeing spots or having black vision as you try to sit up.Ā
You deserve to love yourself again.Ā
You deserve to accept love from those around you again.Ā
You deserve to be able to go shopping without having panic attacks and breakdowns in the changing room.Ā
You can eat your favorite foods without guilt and anxiety.Ā
Youāll have enough energy to do the things you enjoy.Ā
You can be active, and run or play sports for the fun of it, not for weight loss.Ā
You can have a life again.Ā
Youāll be able to sleep at night.Ā
Arenāt you tired of feeling worthless and guilty?
Youāll be able to go out without thinking that everyone is staring at you.Ā
Go into a grocery store feeling safe.Ā
You wonāt have to be scared of going to the doctor anymore.
You wonāt have to excuse yourself from work or social events to purge.
Recover so you donāt have to see the scared, heartbroken look on your motherās face when she hears you purging.Ā
Recover so you can go on a date and feel happy and not worry.
Recover so that you can share your story and help others recover.Ā
You wonāt have to waste any more money on laxatives.Ā
Your eating disorder wonāt be feeding your anxiety and depression anymore.
ALL of us deserve a better life than ED hell.Ā
Youāll be able to have children someday if you want to.Ā
So you can make spontaneous plans to go out, and not have to check or worry if theyāll āfit inā with the eating disorder.
So you can spend time having interesting conversations with people, without your mind wandering off to do calorie counts.
You donāt have to feel guilty when people buy you food, because you wonāt have to waste it anymore.Ā
So you can live a happy, free, fulfilled life.Ā
So you can feel unafraid for the first time in a long time.Ā
So you can have and actually sustain healthy relationships with people (family, friends, significant other) without the eating disorder causing fights and pushing them away.Ā
You can walk around town with a friend or go to events without worrying about passing out.Ā
You donāt have to lie awake at night worrying about the damage youāre doing to yourself.Ā
When you give your body the fuel it needs, your physical AND mental health will improve. Your self-confidence will improve.Ā
You can get your natural skin tone back, and not look gray and sickly pale all the time.
Your blood pressure and heart rate will go back to normal.Ā
Youāll be able to enjoy hot baths and showers again. Ā
You wonāt have so much gas or bloating or stomach pains anymore. Your intestinal and digestive health will slowly heal itself.Ā
You can stop punishing yourself for eating.Ā
You can sit up for more than 10 minutes without your stomach hurting.
You wonāt have to debate for an hour before eating an apple.Ā
Your room wonāt smell like vomit and moldy food.Ā
So you donāt get up in the middle of the night feeling as though you need to do 300 sit-ups before you can sleep and then spend all day feeling tired, and ill.
You wonāt trigger others anymore.Ā
So you dont end up in hospital at 3am because your bowels are bleeding due to your ED
You wonāt be constantly dehydrated anymore.
When you look back on your life, youāll have happy memories too, not just empty memories of anorexia / bulimia
You wonāt have constant headaches anymore.
You wonāt have to isolate yourself anymore.
Because life can, and should be, so much more.
Please feel free to add onto this list, and share your own stories and reasons for recovery. I love you guys and my inbox is always open.Ā
- to live a long happy life with those you love.
Keep going and push through to recovery ššš
This is literally the most helpful & motivational pro-recovery post Iāve read so far. Thank you OP.













