Anonymous #1 15w

I won’t lie, it took years to have a better relationship with food. Therapy did not really help me with this specific issue of mine, but I made an effort to watch body positivity videos on tiktok and I did daily journaling to help better understand my relationship with food and my body. I needed to accept that my ed was only temporary fixes to getting a “better body” and I no longer wanted to feel that icky feeling after purging and binging.

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Anonymous #1 15w

I’m about to graduate college and I gained a lot of weight in college. I love pictures, but I hate being in them. I want to feel good in pictures without having the memories of my purging or extreme fasting. Through other stories (on tiktok), I realized lots of people have advice and stories to share their experience and motivate others. I wanted to develop healthy habits that would stick and NOT be temporary.

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Anonymous #1 15w

Goals and rewards! If I go X amount of days where I’m doing healthy habits, then I can buy something I really want (like a few books or something). Stuff like this really helps me

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Anonymous #1 15w

Baby steps are everything. I set up a meal plan and water goal. I also struggle with being motivated for a day or two than falling back into old habits, but nothing will change unless I am active. I also made a presentation for when I relapse. I set goals with months I wanted to accomplish them and then made a sort of mood board for them. It has tips and advice from people that have beat their ed.

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Anonymous #1 15w

I had a goal of two days, then three, then four, and so on. If I messed up, I allowed myself the space to mess up, but I looked at the presentation to see that everything will not work out overnight/results aren’t immediate. The presentation really helps!!!

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Anonymous OP 15w

Thank you <3

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Anonymous #1 15w

Anytime love ☺️ you got this!!!

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