Thursday 20 October

Why choose weight gain in recovery? Why choose recovery?

What Weight Gain Means To Me

Here’s a rather long list I made, which is now a Word Cloud as my laptop screensaver, for motivation for those days where I feel the urge to restrict/go backwards again. We don’t want that!

• Gaining life back
• Meals out
• Nights out with friends
• Christmas time – all the good foods and pumpkin lattes!
• Baking and yummy goodies like pastries and cookies
• Weight going to places I’ve never had: boobs + butt!
• Becoming the best version of myself
• Food freedom – the best experience and relief of my life
• Body confidence
• Lazy days with no guilt
• Movie days with friends/partner
• Travel – trying new cuisines
• PIZZA!!
• Getting my period back
• Having energy I didn’t have during my ED
• New clothes – weight gain means perhaps going up a size or two in clothing, but that means you get to buy lots of new clothes!
• New relationship with the gym – going when you want to/exercising and moving your body the way you want, not the way your ED used to make you think
• Growth + Change
• Spreading awareness for others in starting their own recovery journey
• Making memories (so many god damn memories)
• Birthday parties
• Coffee + cake dates with friends, or study dates alone
• Time to sit and relax, read a book or watch netflix with no need to move/workout
• Retraining my mindset to create one that can focus on other things and not purely food/exercise
• Putting my time and energy in my relationships with others, especially my boyfriend
• Learning new ways to grow
• Social functioning – new energy to spend with friends
• Finally, choose recovery/weight gain to let go of that past you that is no longer serving you. You deserve more than that limiting version of you. You have outgrown her ❤

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