Today is a new day. After 2 months of being completely clean of my eating disorder this week it lurked it's ugly head.
I need some pointers/help from ppl who have gotten over their eating disorders
Right now I've been maintaining my current weight of 107-110 pounds 5'4.....
should i look into healthily gaining a few pounds. is this a current healthy weight? or should i just not look at the scale completely - is it impossible to get over an eating disorder if you still look at your weight?
i think you need to gain a few more pounds since it appears that you are too close to the border, and the ED is too close to the surface for you to teeter on the edge of underweight. you are at a bmi of 18.4 at 107, and i assume 107 is more accurate since ED recoverers often choose to give a range even though it's closer to the lower number USUALLY with the occasional high number popping up. regardless, you are still underweight at 107 pounds, so i'd try to shoot for 112-116 or thereabouts, that's only another 5 pounds and will be much safer when you find that you resort to ED like behaviors and it takes a while to snap out of it, at least you won't fall into the "underweight" category and risk all of the unhealthy side effects. i hope this helped a bit and good luck with overcoming these thoughts. what is fueling them?
thanks for the advice chrissy...
i'm not exactly sure what is fueling my ed...is it possible to overcome an ed without conquering your issues first? i was planning on buying a journal and every time i have a binge problem to try to journal instead and try to figure out my triggers....
i have exercise bulimia/bulimia. mostly just overeating and hours of exercise....it is so exhausting/time consuming/and takes away from my relationships...i need to get rid of this problem so i can live life again.
i don't think it's possible to truly overcome an ed until you work on the underlying issues that caused it in the first place. you may come to a healthy place physically but if the mentality is still there then you risk a relapse and not completely recovering. i think often times physical recovery, as in the restoration of body weight, is a facade and masks the fact that we have yet to recover. it's easy to say "see i'm healthy now...I weigh X number of pounds" but inside you're still burning with the desire to restrict/binge/purge/exercise...whatever it is, and that's not "recovered" does that make sense?
