The importance of eating above minimum.

I managed to eat 800 calories above minimum today. I did it because if I only eat minimum the recovery will take so much longer. I got a reminder of that today, thank God. There was a girl who had just eaten minimum and wasn't recovered after 19 months! When she ate more she was soon recovered. I'm glad I was shaken out of the same pattern so I can recover at a high speed.

I think using a very long time to recover is more frightening than eating the amount the body needs to get well as quickly as possible. I have just done it for a few days now, eating above minimum. I had to think the opposite of what the ED has taught me so I could do the opposite, and my mood is so much better! I will not eat less and get the bad mood again! My perspective is much wider than it was too.

Food is not an enemy. It's the opposite. Everything in recovery is opposite from what the ED say. Eat above minimum, eat as calorie dense as possible, eat as much as possible, follow your body's hunger and appetite signals, body fat is a good thing, relaxing and sleeping enough is a good thing, to care less about our looks is a good thing, to care less about what other thinks is a good thing, to feel and express our emotions and our sexuality is a good thing. To express exactly what we think and go for what we really want is a good thing. And most importantly: to stop believing in ED' lies is the best thing. Because that gives freedom. Out of freedom comes happiness. Out og happiness comes goodness. Goodness that gives peace and true satifaction, and never judge and reject anything.