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It's been nearly a year of eating crackers, peanut butter and yogurt. It's like my body is unable to crave meals.. is this also a thing? Thank you!

I loved this video🩵🍰🍬It is super helpful. Thank you Emily🎂💖

Theres really notbing else in life than going througj recovery, truely a transformative procees in so many ways 😊😊😊

Your content is saving lives... thankyou

But it is so scary to start.

its like studying for an exam and not taking the exam! You can only read, research so much before action is needed

LOVE this. I relate so much!

As a lifelong resident of Chicago I can confirm that deep dish pizza sauce can go nuclear! When I read the title of this upload I realized I could hardly remember what my favorites were pre-ED.. after some contemplation I got all nostalgic for Golden Grahams and Raspberry Zingers 🥳 thanks !

Wow so helpful, please more videos like this one!

I've been looking forward to your latest video and this was such a delight! I've been trying to connect with childhood favs. Some I just can't recall or the item is no longer available. So, I've embarked on self-discovery - trying new (to me)/taking suggestions to learn MY current true likes. I acknowledge some uneasiness around certain types of yummy foods and remind myself that all foods are perfectly OK since I don't have any food allergies. My husband even said (though about our senior dog at the time), that 'Any food you eat is healthier than the food you don't.' I'd love to hear how you pushed through mental barriers. My intuition is repetition to normalize eating. Thank you, Emily, for all you do to continually help me improve my relationship with food, and with myself.💖

hi, i was just wondering: would you call yourself recovered and are things like this still challenging for you? thank you so much for your work!!

I’m scared that if I honour my hunger I’ll gain a bunch of weight in a short period of time. I’ve seen people gain 10kg in a month. Mentally I won’t be able to cope with that big of an increase in weight. Do you have some reassuring words or tips for dealing with this? Thanks in advance ❤️

needed this now

Thank you Emily ! I feel like you always drop a video right when I need a polite kick on the butt and telling to get on with it ! ♥️

thank you so much, Emily! It‘s so true that recovery is something to get DONE with, and not just let „recovery“ take the place the eating disorder took beforehand forever. It should be the goal not to recover forever, but to be recovered and have a life of unconditional (food) freedom.

Thankyou so much for this, I quite litterally have sat down with the same lunch as you said that I had to stop and think oh wow hahaha, but honestly such a powerful message... thankyou <3

Thank you. I’m so grateful for your time; you’re changing lives with your messages.

How does one not get freaked out by the intrusive thoughts and ingrained beliefs? I get so far and then hijacked/am so pathetic the passengers take over

Such a helpful reminder. I honestly find this analogy the most powerful. The 'passengers' can be so so raucous and screaming the the directions I'm going are dangerous or wrong or actually going to not take me to the place I want to be. They do their best to completely induce self doubt and confusion don't they? They can be so damn convincing. Grrrrr.

It’s so complicated!!! Thank you!!

Really helpful 👌

This is such a beautifull, clear and helpfull story with very strong images for recovery, thank you so much Emily!!❤ I think the ED voice sometimes screams so loud during the road trip to recovery, because its not the direction the ED wants....although you are in the drivers seat yourself, you sometimes want to leave the car to get rid of this awfull voice. But then you have to be strong and keep moving forward and being focused on you goal: total recovery.

It's amazing when we choose to step forward and quit quasi how the ED starts screaming once more. But I'm so grateful for your message (and your Quitting Quasi Journal) that full freedom IS possible and that we don't have to believe the lie that "we're there". Thank you, Emily!

Can you help me please, I have the compulsive movement element which I’m finding really hard to stop, walking, cleaning, I do have dogs so I would find it very difficult to give up walking as the dogs need walked and no one else to do it, I wonder though if we give up exercise in recovery when we are recovered and bring it back will we no start loosing by weight with the starting the movement again???

That’s funny because in my latest video, I compare recovery with the time when Moses crosses the desert with his people towards Promised land. I also thought of the analogie of the trip. It is a trip, if we also think about the migration theory. Very interesting….

If I recall correctly, you've mentioned that you enjoy road trips as someone fully recovered. This was a nice moment to see how your journey began with, and has transitioned to one without, the loud and annoying ED voice. The analogy is easy to understand that the journey can be adventurous, perhaps even fun 😊, and like driving, you have to pay attention - read the 'signs', course correct, etc. Thank you for sharing, Emily! I'm going to apply this!

Thank you !!! ❤

The video is so lovely! And I really appreciate that you understand that resting could be...hard (for people with ED/during recovery). For me it is a huge struggle- I want to chill and have some lazy days but my mind hates it. My thoughts don't let me rest so I become very stressed when I am not 'productive'... Sometimes chilling is another challenge! Thank you for being here, XX

Thank you 😊🙏

I love this vlog, so calming, a life I wish to live. I just feel like a failure if I don't live up to my productivity levels of the day before and then everyday becomes a comparison tied to my food intake. :(

This was so nice thank you, do you have the recipes for the pancakes and breakfast pastry thing? Thank you!

Really loved this style of video!!🙂

You and Roka are so cute together 🥰

I am now in recovery from anorexia for 9 months now. My EH is decreasing, it comes and go. It's way less important than I could experience before. Even thought, somes weeks I can have a day of EH. The day after, I wake up starving again. 2 days before also so I eat. During those days I can't stop eating and if I want to stop I has to take a pause and the days after it dissapears. Then 1 week and half after it comes back, etc... What does it mean ?

Love the vlog Emily.

It's such a lovely video. I felt I could just step in. Also been very useful to me x

LOVED this video, Emily! ..animals, reading, sunshine, walks with partner, thunderstorms, pancakes - so many of my favs, as well! 🥰 ..paused to enjoy with a cuppa; kept thinking, 'there is no hustle to MY bustle.' 😂

Loved this video 🥰 felt so cosy 🫶

is your dog ok? i can see a lot of his bones!🥺

Ive been leaning into my mental hunger trying to recover for weeks now but I just recently let myself eat to the amount I want and ive been binging so much to the point where I can’t breathe and I still think of food or feel extreme guilt because of the binging and end up restricting during meal times, should I continue to eat dinner with my family during meal times or wait until I’m hungry to eat? If I hold off eating I just end up looking forward to dinner and my entire day is revolved food. Do I just eat all the time? I feel so overwhelmed and stressed over food all the time

I think another way to look at it is the food that ate meant that I COULD make those memories because restriction stops you living life to the full, unable to make true happy memories. 2 weeks ago my son was poorly and I was on week 2 of recovery. I could have easily stepped back into ED ways but I didnt, i kept going. Now through the other side and my son is better I KNOW I wouldnt have been able to cope mentally, emotionally if I had been restricting. I was the Mum he needed me to be because I said NO to the ED! X

Thank you soo much! I am able to follow the eating but still need to exercise! My stomach is big!!

Oh my goodness! Thank you soo much Emily! I needed this. I am ok with eating and not really scared but afterwards it’s the guilt then I need to exercise and if I can’t and it’s late evening I’ll use L’s. It’s awful! Any suggestions?

I can eat no problem but can’t get to extreme! I feel soo guilty! Afterwards I feel my stomach and panic! I’m trying soo hard! But I think of my cholesterol as I know it’s high! I really want to do this! If anyone can help, please do!

Thank you for this!

Grateful for this as I get back to being intentional with recovery steps after having my baby boy and my hunger feels sky high! The only way forward is forward without judgment. I’ll be a better mum if I choose to eat and keep pushing for more freedom :)

your smile in the wedding photo is so beautiful!!

Thank you Emily 🥺 the older me perspective is so so helpful. I've been in recovery for 5 months and no longer sick/underweight, it is so hard some days because I can't recognise myself in the photos, and sometimes I don't like what I see. Your video reminded me that I'm doing a great job because I've gained back my health, my happiness and my life. In the moment it is hard to see that, because I don't feel happy about my body and wanting to hide from people sometimes, which makes me feel like losing happiness & life. But no. I'm so so sure that the fully recovered me would be so proud of me right here right now, doing everything to save myself. Thank you for your video ❤

I’ve been struggling with all this and telling my therapist. I’m glad to know this is common.

thank you for yet another video with wise words Emily! I appreciate it very much, it gives me the feeling of not being alone in recovery❤