Life without Anorexia

My motto is
'Dont let the sadness of your past & the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present'

I am a generally happy girl who loves running, going to the gym and eating food!! Though my life has been very different.
I spent 5 years sick with anorexia nervosia & purging tendencies & over exercising. I was depressed and self harmed. I spent 2 years in different treatment centres.
After alot of struggles, lots of ups and downs, suicide attempts, tears, anxiety, panic and never thinking i would be healthy.
I am now declared healthy from anorexia nervosia.

I have been blogging for 4 years, and my whole journey is written in my posts. I now represent healthy and happiness. I want to show anyone struggling that it is possible to recover, no matter how hard it may seem.

I am happy and healthy and living my life. Going to school, meeting friends and trying to find myself in this world.

I write about my daily life, but also try to write posts about how it was when i was sick, advice and tips.
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You know what really bothers me, and is starting to bring me down is that I eat WAY more then anyone else. I know that what i eat is what my body needs, and that i do do alot of activity each day, that is also what my body needs.
  Because of my CF, i need exercise each day (i guess everybody does, but i need exercise i.e running/swimming for my lungs) and i need to eat alot, and alot of high fat foods...
 
But i eat so much and so often.. and the thing is, my body is prgramed to that... so i get hungry at certain times...
  I mean i eat 5-6 times a day, and i can still feel hungry sometimes and take a fruit. While others (ive been studying peoples eating habits... [Is that considered anorexic?!}) and they eat maybe 3-4 times a day.
  I eat a HUGE breakfast, while my family only have like a small bowl of cornfalkes and milk, maybe a banana.

For lunch, well ive realised, i actually eat less then other for lunch... cus im not usually hungry. Idont know.. ive never  been a fan of lunch? and i would mainly go for something healthy - i.e salad/egg white omellette/ soup/ sandwiches.
  But everyone else wants a big cooked lunch, which is good... its just that im not a big fan of that... even though i get cooked lunches at school.

And then i would eat a snack a little while after lunch, and that is usually a big snack... but not everyone else does that? they might take a fruit or something... or something anyway.

And then dinner..and thats a normal serving, maybe another half portion depending on if im hungry or not...
  and then of course i eat a night snack. (Unless we end up having like dinner at 8 or something)

 Uggghh i eat like 2500-3500 calories a day... like calories dont bother me.. but suddenly im thinking.

Shit i eat alot.. all the time?! 
   I mean, i try to eat as healthy as possible... i like to go for protein and oats.. bt i have my days which consist of just like bread (haha)
  I hate how it feels like im always eating, no one else eats this much and the scary thing is that ... i dont think i'd be able to cut back.. or i have my days where i guess i dont eat as much.

But at the moment, ive been gaining weight.. not much.. roughly 1,5kg in like 2-3 months... thats nothing. And its mainly because i have it so easy to lose weight... but now im wondering, some point.. some point i will be 58kg,and ill have a BMI 19... and then what? wont i have to cut back then? not eat as much...
  like i mean, i started eating morebecause i didnt want to drink the supplement drinks... and now my body has gotten used to this amount of food...
  I dont know... at the moment, i feel all panicked in my head...  its an awful feeling..
  eveyrone else seems to be able to eat just a little, and be allowed to diet... but me??? i just have to eat.eat.eat


 And the thing is, i enjoy it... i woudlnt be able to eat less...? an that scares me? how did i survive, how did i cut back and not eat anything? idont get it...

Like, the reaality is that in a year, ive just gone up and down3kg... thats all ive done. ive gained weight and then ive lost it.
   So i mean, what i eat isnt realy making a big difference... at first i drank supplement drinks & my meal plan.. and that didnt really do much. And then over time i dropped the meal plan and then i stopped drinking the supplement drinks... (started losing weight) and then i started eating more... and thats when i was jsut about able to keep my weight.
  And then ofcourse i started jogging and siwmming more, and that resulted in either eating more or drinking a protein shake/supplement drink.

So i can balance my weight... even though it feels like im eating loads,and a normal person would gain weight.. i dont really... or i really have to over eat.
   And i know that when im 58kg.. ill be going to the gym,and im trying to gain these last 3-4kg in muscle (which is hard as i dont go to the gym!!)
  So i will be more active.. and have more energy to do more stuff.. so it most probably will balance out.
Also that when you're a healthy weight.... your body does eveyrthing to staay that weight.. it goes up and down 2kg.. but it takes a helluva lot to start gaining LOADS. and it takes serious exercise and dietiting to start losing loads...
  your body knows when its healthy.. just like it gives you signals when you're hungry and when you're thirsty, tired, want to exercise etc etc....
  you just have to rely on that your body knows.... and thats the most important thing isnt it, that your healthy. both physically and mentally?
  I mean, i havent even gotten my period back? one signal that im not healthy?
 But i guess im just scared to trust my body..

And my head is messing with me..

There are all these articles and eerything out there, saying that if you eat more then 1500 cals (or whatever.. i dont read that shit) you gain weight etc etc.... but its like... thats not true?
   
I mean, trying to gain weight, is just as hard as it is to lose weight.... ? for an anorexic.. maybe at the start they gain weight quickly, because the body has been in starvation mode, and then it suddenly gets food so it wants to preserve it all...

I dont know...  i just feel awful because i eat so much, an at the moment i feel like fat assed slob... hate my body.
 
Hm... iwonder if any of you have read this far? : )
 

6 comments:

  1. Being healthy is the hardest thing cause what is healthy? There are all these articles about eating healthy and the articles which are saying that all the things said before is bullshit and unhealthy, i mean wtf?! The thing is that we all have different bodies and different needs.Unfortunately there isnt the pure truth about living healthy.

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  2. haha, i get those feelings too. like just rambled words pouring out of your head. you know the answers. YES you need to eat more because you are in recovery. NO you are not greedy. YES your body will settle and adjust to eating more and NO eating more than 1500 does not make you gain weight!!!

    sometimes you just have to be reassured that what youre doing isnt wrong. i get that. but there is know "perfect" way to gain weight... this is what i have to keep telling myself. everyone is different, so what you need will always be different to what someone else needs. its all about trial and error. you just have to trust it and see. you know that you CAN balance your weight, you just have to be brave enough to trust that your body will know when its happy and healthy again :-)

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  3. Känner samma sak... jag äter också mellan 2500-3500 kcal om dagen. Jag äter 5-6 gånger om dagen vilket är ungefär dubbelt så mycket som de flesta andra jag känner gör. jag känner ingen som äter kvällsmål eller 10 mellis som inte är i behandling. Det värsta är väl att jag vlir typ irreterad, varför måste jag äta så här mycket, så här ofta? och ingen annan. Men jag tror inte jag skulle kunna sluta äta igen.... Sen så verkár all den här maten inte göra så mycket på min vikt... Jag "vill" också nå min/mandos målvikt.

    Men kämpa på! För du behöver all den här maten. Och du kommer inte behöva skära ner på maten sen när du nått din målvikt, för gör du det så kommer du gå ner igen och då får du ju börja om igen. kämpa på och försök gå upp det sista sen kan du börja gymma och då kan du tappa "fett" och gå upp i mmuskler istället :) (inte för att du verkar ha något fett... inte vad jag har sett på bilderna i alla fall)

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  4. Jag går också hos mando. har typ samma BMI som du, jag äter 4500 om dagen så klaga inte. Jag äter mer! Och tydligen går du ju inte upp i vikt av dessa kalorier så det är bara att äta på

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  5. I definitely get the feeling that I am eating more than everyone else when I am out to meals with friends. It's hard, but you just have to remember you're doing it to be healthy! You've accomplished a lot, don't forget that. :) xo Tori

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