I do a lot of reading these days, not just the fun, leisure stuff, but also other’s thoughts on eating disorder recovery. I left a comment on one post that’s had me thinking yesterday saying that I would start sharing my responses here now that I was starting to feel better, and yet, I’m just [...]
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Sometimes, when the time comes to move forward a bit more in my recovery, when it’s time to recognize that there’s something more that I need to work through, I find myself waiting. And that’s when the chaos really starts to build: I come down with something, I lose sight of goals, I stop talking [...]
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Diet’s a funny word: it has nothing at all to do with what an eating disorder really is, yet many people define anorexia and bulimia as diets gone too far (something that I think needs some work in the media, but hey, that’s another story). In weightlifting terms (and since I spend time visiting them [...]
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Yesterday, as a great big part of feeling less than well, a fair amount of time was spent catching up on watching TV shows that were taped earlier in the week. The title for this post - I can take the criticisms; it’s the praise that hurts - came up while watching Project Runway when [...]
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Despite the fact that I don’t often leave home - I work from here, and it’s been bitterly cold lately - I’ve managed to come down with something. While I’m trying to go through the motions of life as usual, it’s just kinda. . . It’s just not happening.
Sleep is disrupted. My appetite is fried [...]
