If we follow the pillars, we will develop a balanced way of eating that provides adequate nourishment and pleasure, and gently move us away from measuring, calculating, and feeling guilty or deprived.
Layer by layer, you peel back parts of you, to explore and shine light into. And, right there waiting, is another layer. Whether you're looking for one or not. Sometimes it's exhausting. Motivation will ebb and flow - so how can you maintain your journey, your recovery, when you are not feeling motivated?
Do you ever try on your "thin" clothes, just to see? Have you ever used your old clothing as an alternate scale, to judge if your body has changed? And how much it has changed?
The trinity of performance: train, fuel, rest. Diet culture misses the mark by promoting doing more on less.
Don’t listen to the noise; not eating enough and over-exercising are highly correlated with poor health outcomes. They place unnecessary stress on our mental, physical, and emotional well-being, at especially during this time of stress, the majority of us need to practice limiting stressors in other areas to safeguard our overall health and wellbeing during quarantine.
I struggled with the idea that I was so far behind my peer group. I had not had a full time job in a while. I went back to school, I dabbled in a few things, but I was nowhere close to having a life partner, a home of my own, a new car - all of the things that society told me I should be well underway, if not already, accomplishing, but they were not even on the radar. This felt quite soul crushing - it make me feel that maybe I was failing; maybe I was making all the wrong decisions
There is no single way a body will transform and heal in recovery, and attaching specific images about recovery may inadvertently send the message that “This is what recovery looks like” – which simply is not accurate. Pictures only show a moment in what MY recovery has looked like, and each of us will experience a uniquely different journey.
It amazes me that there still is a HUGE amount of misinformation about disordered eating that is held as truth.
Here are some of the more common myths that I have heard, and experienced. The more we can teach the world about this disorder, hopefully the more resources will become available to those who struggle.
