I wrote a post over a year ago on 5 things I don’t miss about my disordered eating and exercise. This is another thing to add to that list to offer some motivation when you’re in the messy middle of recovery and you don’t know why you should keep pursing recovery. It’s important to mention how your disordered eating or exercise can be harming you since sometimes it’s hard to see what your eating disorder is keeping you from and, therefore, in the messy middle part of recovery it’s easy to get to the place of:
- “what’s the point of keeping going?”
- “what’s the point of eating that ice cream sandwich I’ve set as a food challenge?”
- “it feels impossible to practice a way to cope that doesn’t involve restriction/binging/purging – be it vomiting your food or exercising it off, so why try?”