Intuitively eating after weight restoration.

Hey guys, I'm recovering from an eating disorder, and weight restored. The past few days I've been trying to eat intuitively, and it's been working very well :] I'm so much less anxious not counting calories and just listening to my body. I was just wondering if my meals look all right? I haven't been restricting anything, and eating what I want when I'm hungry. 

btw I'm 5'9", 130ish(I haven't weighed myself in a couple weeks), and almost 19 years old. I work out 3-6 days a week. Usually only for 15-20 minutes a day though, either running or on the elliptical. I also do yoga once or twice a week. I also am a student, and walk a bit due to not having a car.

Today's food:

B: a piece of raisin bread with cream cheese, an apple cobbler yogurt, coffee

s: string cheese

L:  2 squares left over veggie thin-crust pizza, 1/2c cottage cheese, 1/4 piece raisin bread with apple butter, lots of yellow carrots in roasted pine nut hummus. 

S: 1/2 c plain yogurt with apple butter(lol i'm addicted), coconut flavored tofu pack, a mini red delicious apple, two hershey's kisses.

D: tomato basil boca burger on a sandwich thin with lettuce, tomato, cottage cheese, hummus, onion, brown mustard and canola mayo. 1/3ish cup potato salad with yellow mustard.

S: a medium/smallish banana, a piece of raisin bread with apple butter, a vanilla yogurt with apple butter(haha i am SERIOUSLY addicted to the stuff today), a few bites of boyfriend's bagel with cream cheese.

In general: If you decide to eat intuitively, I think it's essential to weigh in once a week to make sure that you maintain your weight. If you maintain, all is well - you can continue to eat intuitively. If you find that intuitive eating makes you lose weight, well, then one would have to go back to calorie counting.  Eating intuitively and not weighing is a recipe for disaster. If you prefer not to weigh yourself/ know your weight, have your doctor/nutritionist/therapist weigh you backwards & just let you know if you've lost weight.

However, I'm a little concered that 5'9" & 130 is your target - that's a BMI of 19.2, and usually the target weight for those with an ED is at least a BMI of 20.  Maybe you could gain up to BMI 20 then start the intuitive eating experiment?

I agree entirely with the above and would even suggest that you aim for a BMI of 21 so that you have some 'insurance' against relapse or illness.  BMI 19 means you're in danger of slipping back to underweight too easily.

It takes several months to firmly establish a good eating habit - getting to know the right size portions, eating regularly, making the right food choices.    Spending another few months gaining that extra 10lbs or so will help this process.  If you stop the formal calorie-counting before you've got it totally embedded, you can find you slip back into old habits because they come more easily.

People losing weight can become 'yo-yo dieters' when they get it wrong.  It's as easy to become a yo-yo gainer if you're not careful

although i think youve done really well, and im not knocking your progress , i to think you should aim for a bmi of at least 20 the weight you are there is no room incase for example you were ill and lost a few pounds . you are also tall and tall people tend to need to be a slightly higher bmi . but i think your intutive eating looks very good h x