You didn't become anorexic overnight, and you won't recover from it overnight, either. Anorexia is a disease that not only affects how you feel about food, it actually affects how you SEE your body. You begin to see your body as being fat when you have the tiniest curve to your stomach, for instance. And that's just not so.
You have big things going for you. You are tired of how the anorexia makes you feel, and you are tired of the thoughts it gets you to think. You want to do good things for your body. And you want to recover. All that is very powerful motivation.
But it will be harder some days than others. There's no getting around that.
There is no way that you will gain weight fast on 1,100 calories a day. Your body needs more than that to survive properly and to build cells for your organs, your blood, your skin and nails and hair. What is happening when you eat that amount is that your body is making decisions about what does and doesn't get to use the calories. It has to because it believes it is starving.
If you go up in calories slowly, you will see how slowly your weight gain will go. Just try going to 1150 for a week and see how that goes.
Here are some things to feel good about when you put food into your mouth:
This is helping your body strengthen my bones
This is helping my body clean my blood and manufacture new blood
This is helping my organs work
This is helping my heart to beat without struggling
This is helping my muscles to get the food they need to survive
This is helping to make my nails strong, my skin healthier and my hair shiny instead of dull and brittle
And keep telling yourself what you are tired of.
You are tired of the thoughts that come with anorexia.
You are tired of worrying about what you are doing to your body.
You are tired of counting counting counting and feeling bad.
You can only do this one day at a time. If one day at a time is too much for you sometimes, you have to just work on it for an hour at a time.
Did you read this? I think it might help you a little:
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Laura,
You didn't become anorexic overnight, and you won't recover from it overnight, either. Anorexia is a disease that not only affects how you feel about food, it actually affects how you SEE your body. You begin to see your body as being fat when you have the tiniest curve to your stomach, for instance. And that's just not so.
You have big things going for you. You are tired of how the anorexia makes you feel, and you are tired of the thoughts it gets you to think. You want to do good things for your body. And you want to recover. All that is very powerful motivation.
But it will be harder some days than others. There's no getting around that.
There is no way that you will gain weight fast on 1,100 calories a day. Your body needs more than that to survive properly and to build cells for your organs, your blood, your skin and nails and hair. What is happening when you eat that amount is that your body is making decisions about what does and doesn't get to use the calories. It has to because it believes it is starving.
If you go up in calories slowly, you will see how slowly your weight gain will go. Just try going to 1150 for a week and see how that goes.
Here are some things to feel good about when you put food into your mouth:
This is helping your body strengthen my bones
This is helping my body clean my blood and manufacture new blood
This is helping my organs work
This is helping my heart to beat without struggling
This is helping my muscles to get the food they need to survive
This is helping to make my nails strong, my skin healthier and my hair shiny instead of dull and brittle
And keep telling yourself what you are tired of.
You are tired of the thoughts that come with anorexia.
You are tired of worrying about what you are doing to your body.
You are tired of counting counting counting and feeling bad.
You can only do this one day at a time. If one day at a time is too much for you sometimes, you have to just work on it for an hour at a time.
Did you read this? I think it might help you a little:
http://www.healthyplace.com/eating-disorders/transcripts/treating-anorexia-the-recovery-process/menu-id-58/
Can you write down what you are eating on a typical day?
April 26, 2010 - 10:13amThis Comment
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