eating disorder? nah, im eating this order

hey! call me jack (she/her) im starting this account 18mo into recovery to post motivation, tips and my own experience ‼DONT BRING ANY PRO-ED RHETORIC IN HERE‼

[recoveryposting]

recovery IS hard, and its hard for a long time, and everyone finds it hard for different reasons. but the truth is, its usually hard because youre learning new skills - listening to your body, responding to physical and mental cues, even learning to procure food for yourself. new skills take time! they take practice! they take trial and error! but youve learned to do hard things before, and youll learn to do these hard things now. dont let the process get you down

[thisrobothasnosoul]

Hey IDK who needs to hear this but the consequences of starvation are much worse than eating "junk" food. Eat the fucking candy bar ad long as you eat

[recoveryposting]

yknow you're allowed to be kinda fat right? most people wont blink an eye. and the ones that do probably aren't worth your time

[recoveryposting]

"nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!" what the hell have you been eating that tastes worse than being cold, tired, and irritable ??

[recoveryposting]

i know it feels good to get compliments on your body when you're skinny, but you have to remember that everybody else is as entrenched in fatphobic media as you are. and i know you don't want to let their approval go - i know i didnt - but the sad fact of the matter is that you need to unravel those grapple with that instinct if you want a sustainable recovery

no compliment will ever be as valuable as your health and wellness

[recoveryposting]

there is no diagnosis or BMI or body weight or body checking metric that will give you the sense of achievement you want. none of these things will finally give you permission to recover. you have that already. it will be hard, but no harder than plodding through life as a starved ghost of yourself. abandon the search for validation down this path. it will not come; you must search somewhere else. be here to do it. start recovery

[recoveryposting]

choosing recovery feels impossible, especially when you have little to no support system. let me promise you something; very few people actually want to be stuck in an eating disorder, and even the ones that THINK they do are just caught up in the lies their ED tells them

everyone wants to be recovered, but no one wants to choose it, because that feels like you're admitting it was never really a problem. everyone wants to be dragged kicking and screaming into a place that will make them well, from where they'll spring forth fully recovered and finally in a body they can love

but that doesnt happen to anybody. you have it within you to claw your life back from your eating disorder, and God, it will be hard. but at the end of the day, the tenacity and drive and healing comes from you. find something new to define you. recovery is possible.

[recoveryposting]

hey everybody, long time no see.

sorry for being so inactive. i'm all fine, i just started struggling a little and i worried that anything i posted on here would be disingenuous or accidentally harmful. but im in a much better place now and i want to post more here.

thanks for sticking around and i hope i can continue being a positive influence for you :)

[impishglee]

“nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”

damn you must suck at cooking. check out some youtube tutorials man. i believe in you.

[recoveryposting]

hi everybody, sorry for being so inactive for so long. im still here and i promise im going to come back here, ive just had a bit of rough patch and didnt want to risk perpetuating any ed/dysmorphic ideas while trying to help. im doing fine though and i hope to be back on your feed soon. keep kicking everybody

[pocket-deer-belly]

Diet companies won’t tell you this but starving yourself is a lot worse for your health than overeating

[pocket-deer-belly]

Your body has a whoooole process for storing excess fats for later and cleaning out excess nutrients. Your body straight up can not run at all if you give it too little to run on. Don’t make your body pick and choose between essential processes, eat when you’re hungry.

[recoveryposting]

make no mistake, the society we have built around us would rather see you skinny and dead than fat and alive. they might even convince you that you yourself would rather be skinny and dead. that's what's so evil about eating disorders, theyre practically built in to our lives. luckily for us, WE built this society, and we can change it too. step off the scales and dont let them win any longer.

[nonbinarythorin]

[just-start-the-tape]

tried my best

[lazylittledragon]

i hate you fad diets i hate you skinny teas i hate you detoxes i hate you meal replacements i hate you ‘carb-free’ i hate you fasting i hate you body checks i hate you stupid fucking internet repackaging the habits that ruined my life over and over and over again

[recoveryposting]

a little while ago i was talking to a friend about my ed and i dont remember the context but she said to me "I LOVE CARBOHYDRATES!!!!! I LOVE CALORIES!!!!!!" and i stopped and stared at my phone because i had genuinely never heard anyone say they love calories. like, even implicitly theres this messaging that lower calorie = better and that we should enjoy of food despite the calories it contains. and i was just floored that this was the first time i had ever heard anything like that and it made me feel so comforted. anyway appreciate your friends they are some of the most important people in the world

[recoveryposting]

i ate probably a third to 3 quarters of a loaf of bread over the last 24 hours and part of me was so stressed the entire time but the other part needed it. i have been a little sick and my body has felt so lethargic lately. those carbs and calories are doing me a world of good.

[recoveryposting]

you have to eat over 1200 calories. you have to eat over 2000 calories sometimes. its good for you especially if youve been restricting a long time. not worth feeling like shit over it babe your cells are revelling in it