It's not very supportive of your mother to starve while you recover from starvation. Have you told her it may ruin your recovery and ask if she can stop it and be supportive instead? Ask her if she by restricting want to risk that you may start restricting as well because she by her actions says it is ok and risk that she lose a daughter for her own vanity. Anyway you must try to be strong in what you believe is right to do and do it. Maybe you must avoid destructive people for a while till you are less vulnerable? What will make you stronger? More food, more knowledge, more support? Get it somehow.
When we meet people who are dieting we can use the opportunity to tell them things they obviously don't know, but we have learned. Like that they slow down their metabolism, that they will gain even more fat after the diet, that they don't only lose fat, but organ tissue and muscles as well. We can tell them about set point weight that allows them to eat what ever they want. About body acceptance, the diet industry that don't want us to know that they incourage people indirectly to starve, to starve their organs, to be more vulnerable to infections and stress the adrenals which can lead to fatigue. We can tell them about the importance of sleep and rest and warn against over-exercising to heal the adrenals and cure fatigue. That eating well and sleeping enough makes us less vulnerable (take things with a laugh instead of a cry) and more tolerant towards the natural body. We can ask them if to look good is more important than to feel good and be healthy and strong. And if they have been taught what is beautyful or investigated what they think is beautiful themselves. If they could work on their own tolerance instead of being a victim of the lack of tolerance in society. To not accept how the body looks, what it needs and so on is lack of love. To diet and exercise to be thin is fear-driven and destructive. There is so much to say to people who haven't reflected on the subject or looked up information not influenced by the diet industry, but based on the interest of health.
When we meet people who are dieting we can use the opportunity to tell them things they obviously don't know, but we have learned. Like that they slow down their metabolism, that they will gain even more fat after the diet, that they don't only lose fat, but organ tissue and muscles as well. We can tell them about set point weight that allows them to eat what ever they want. About body acceptance, the diet industry that don't want us to know that they incourage people indirectly to starve, to starve their organs, to be more vulnerable to infections and stress the adrenals which can lead to fatigue. We can tell them about the importance of sleep and rest and warn against over-exercising to heal the adrenals and cure fatigue. That eating well and sleeping enough makes us less vulnerable (take things with a laugh instead of a cry) and more tolerant towards the natural body. We can ask them if to look good is more important than to feel good and be healthy and strong. And if they have been taught what is beautyful or investigated what they think is beautiful themselves. If they could work on their own tolerance instead of being a victim of the lack of tolerance in society. To not accept how the body looks, what it needs and so on is lack of love. To diet and exercise to be thin is fear-driven and destructive. There is so much to say to people who haven't reflected on the subject or looked up information not influenced by the diet industry, but based on the interest of health.
