Client Quote #59: my body

Your ED would also have not allowed you to have many other things, like eating out spontaneously with friends and family, enjoying holiday dinners guilt-free, going on vacation without worrying about calories, a regular period, healthy hair and nails etc. 

The body that did all of that was the only one the ED would have ever allowed, because it was the only body the ED had control over. 

Being in recovery is challenging and uncomfortable, and it forces our body to change as we adapt to fueling it properly and allowing previous restrictions to ease. That body is the one our ED would’ve never allowed because having that body meant going out for food without checking the menu prior, or skipping a workout because we didn’t feel like it, or enjoying a dessert our family members made us because it didn’t have a nutrition label on it. We can take control of our bodies back from the ED, it doesn’t have to control us forever. And once we are able to take back what was rightfully ours from the beginning, we can enjoy every precious moment in our lives so much more fully than ever before.