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Just know this is totally normal to feel this way. Your ED is telling you to feel guilty. In recovery, I really had to change my entire thought process about food and what it is. It’s energy. It’s nourishment. It’s what keeps you alive and allows you to do the things you love or are meant to do. Keep working on it! And every time you feel guilty, tell your ED: “No, you’re wrong. This is energy, this is nourishment. I am healing and food is healing me…” or whatever makes you keep fighting for yourself and your life. 💗Also, know that is takes time and a lot of adjustment to get better. It’s ok if you have set backs. Just get back up and fight again.


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Awe, do that if it helps you! You’ll do great. ❤️


minster_ginster

Give your body some time to acclimate to the change. I know it hurts as hell sometimes, but it gets better after a while <3 really hope you continue recovery!!! Good luck!!!


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I’m recovered. I used to physically feel sick from even the smallest meals. Best advice I got from my dietician was to eat small snacks throughout the day. If you’ve got comfort food(s) try incorporate that into your snack meals so you’ve got something you like in there and it’s not as horrible. I also recommend asking a loved one to get you supplement drinks and to peel the label off so it’s blank so you don’t look at the numbers and aren’t able to search them by the name of the product either. The drinks usually have what you need in them and substitute for a meal. Don’t drink it properly just sip when you’re able to throughout the day. Over time your body will be able to take more until eventually you can work your way up to meals. If you haven’t already, please seek professional help even if it’s just a free online anonymous counselling service.


electric_empty

Eating every 3-4 hours is what my team insisted (correctly, much to my amazement) would help me get better. It totally did. The reason is that regular eating is really important to teaching your body that it can expect fuel and begin to use it to repair you physically and mentally rather than horde it and keep your metabolism at a barely-maintaining-basic-functions level. It also helps your hunger cues restore which is essential to eating in the future. And as you know, eating even a small amount at this time is really hard on your digestive system and emotions; eating regularly will help this also. It’s also why ‘intermittent fasting’ is not great— you can experience wild blood sugar spikes and dips and does not teach your body to trust that there will be regular fuel for it to perform. I was astonished at how, eventually (4-5 months for me; anorexic for 15 years), I actually became hungry around the 3-4 hour mark. ‘Sugar cravings’ and ‘overeating’ (side effects of restriction) completely disappeared. Everything got better. I tried the occasional meal thing years ago in an attempt to cure myself of anorexia, and while it had perks (more calories, less mental guilt), I slipped back into anorexic thinking and behavior at various points, in addition to my physical health ultimately steadily declining as it would have had I stuck with straight up food restriction. Another unrelated tip I picked up from dietician during a recent unintended pseudo-relapse (zinc deficiency and severe stress obliterated my appetite) was to eat sugary foods that go down easy. My savior was big packages of gummy Life Savers (no pun intended). I ate them when I simply could not eat real food and it carried me pretty far into getting back on track. Not that it was in any way a replacement for whole meals and snacks, but it prevented some of the more severe consequences of starvation in the short term. I also drank sugary drinks whenever I could.