Relearning How To Eat.

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Hope everyone is having a relaxing snow day. Although I'm not a fan of the cold, it's always nice to be cozy, light some candles, read a good book, and relax with the one you love :)

Today, I want to talk about relearning how to eat. What happens after you recover from an Eating Disorder? When one goes through the process of starvation and believing that food is the enemy, you can imagine it becomes incredibly difficult to begin to learn how to regain a healthy relationship with food. I've often heard people say that you never fully recover from an Eating Disorder, and that part of it always stays with you. I'm in the school of thought that you can fully recover if you retrain your mind in the right way.

So how do you do it? For me, as I was recovering, I tried to remind myself how I once thought of food as a child. As a little kid, you're not thinking (probably) about calories. You're thinking that food is just good and you want to eat it. That's part of the mindset. Food IS good! It's there to be enjoyed, and that's why it tastes good. So, when relearning how to eat, it's important to try and go back into that mindset you had as a child when it comes to food in the sense that you must think about food as a friend and not an enemy, or something to be feared.

Another aspect of this mindset shift of recovery is remembering all of the amazing benefits of food. Food provides the nutrients that we need to survive and flourish. Recovery can look like many things for different people. Some people go to the other end of the spectrum (for example, from starving to binging), which isn't helpful. The idea is not to go to the other extreme, but to find that perfect middle ground that works for you. It's about listening to your body which you've been denying for so long and figuring out which way of eating makes sense for YOU. It's not about your friend being vegan and so that automatically means that that's the way to do things, or your other friends starving all day and only pigging out on unhealthy foods when they do eat. It's not about looking to the side but about looking within and figuring out what it is YOU need. Your body is not the same as anyone else's so you can't look at other people's diets as the perfect template for yourself.

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