Interesting. I always thought i had an initial "recovery" and then mini relapses like 3 times a year that lasted anywhere between a week and a few months. I kind of thought that it was more like a quasi recovery but i guess this makes way more sense, and explains why I feel like I've been going in circles since 2011.
What is your advise on anorexia recovery as a ballerina. I really struggle with seeing myself every day in the mirror while wearing a tight costume. I also struggle with compulsive exercise outside of ballet and I think having a two hour class every day isn t quite helpful
Do you have any advice for a recovering anorexic who also has T2? It means I basically have to eat super low carb foods to manage my blood sugar but it fucks up my idea of recovery :/
Please help. Still very underweight so why is my extreme hunger gone? Also I can't stop hoarding food just eating little bit then dumping the rest like I'm addicted to throwing stuff away. And why is my organizing ocd symptoms soooo out of control during recovering. I can't stop organizing it bothers me if stuff is not how I want it I literally lose sleep over it.
this resonated with me so so much!!! I get to x kg and then relapse back to a lower weight. each and every time I try 'recovery' this happens. Have been working with my team and I think its linked to never fully giving up behaviours. So even when im eating more, im exercising more, counting calories and eating with disordered behaviours. Im 23 but the last 7 years have been dedicated to maintaining my ED and only now realising how much it controls my life. Any tips for breaking this cycle im in where I gain weight just to lose it again?
What if I don't really afraid to gain weight, because I like my body and the way it looks. But I have irrational fear of being so fat, like 300 kg. It does not disturb me, I eat what I what . But this fear is in the background since my childhood.
Hi Tabitha. Thank you for your lovely videos🤗. I have a few questions here: I used to be obssessed with low-level movements when I had a restricted ED. I swept the floors a lot, cooked a lot (which do require a lot of standing) during those times.Now recovered, I find that I hate the idea of doing housechores and cooking. However, as I am well aware that as a grown adult, I am required to take in some level of responsiblity in the house, now living with my parents, such as cleaning and cooking. Has anyone gone through this as well?What are your thoughts on this? Is my hate for all these activities has something to do with my past ED? Thanks😁!
I completely relate with you. I used to be obsessed with cleaning and cooking and all the activities that makes me move more. when I started my recovery, I hated cooking (I was buying ready meals mostly or cooking so easy recipe) and I barely cleaned my apartment ( I was doing the bare minimum). IT IS SO RELATED to our past ED! and I think it is completely normal, as normal as hating to eat vegetables in recovery :D. Our bodies suffered from all these movements and I personally whenever I do them I remember my terrible ED years so that is why I hated them. Now I am back to normal *a bit* but whenever people suggested to cook or clean, I am more than happy to let them do it.. Take it easy on yourself and it will come back, if you must do something in your parents house, try to do the bare minimum while explaining to your parents the situation,
What about the feeling that you have to report take pictures or record everything you do in your recovery to feel valid. Like if their is nobody to see it how can I feel legitime to eat? I find it so difficult to just eat and not show the others my struggles what are they going to find of me?
The only one you have to convince that you are eating without restriction is you and your own brain :) no one cares how much you’ve gained or what you ate
Dear Tabitha, I gained so much weight in the last 2 years eating whatever I want. I went from BMI 20 to now 31. Now I got high blood pressure and the doctor says I should move 1 hour 3 times a week. Will that be compulsive, too? Or will it delay recovery?
Hi, I’ve been trying to recover and it’s so hard when my mom keeps dieting to lose weight even though I explained to her she’ll gain it all back and maybe some more, and I told her multiple times it triggers me so much. She’s the same person who put a lot of fatphobic, restrictive thoughts in my head when I was really young and she’s always told me she was “big” even though she’s objectively not. I’m so damn tired of seeing my parents diet and restrict over and over again while I try to recover from a damn deadly mental illness. Pls help me, I’m afraid I’m gonna relapse again...
Hello,you are helping me a lot! i do have a question though. If anorexia and binge eating disorder are two different genetic reactions to a famine, why is it that some obese people can have binge eating disorder and then go on to develop anorexia too. or would all eating disorders be the same disorder? Also there is someone in my family who is obese and i was talking about this theory and asked them if they have ever resricted food in the past and they said not at all. Is the idea that all obese people have restricted at some point? Alsooo i have seen videos of anorexic girls who recover and get very obese when they were not restricting.
So painfully familiar. Yet I am probably gonna be discharged from my treatment for doing so "well". Oh and yes, the first thing that comes to my mind when I want to do it the right way and actually eat without restriction without exercising like a mad woman and having cheat days to compensate for "eating a lot days" is... I need to loose a bit of weight? After nearly dying and needing tube feeding for months in 2019 I am almost at target weight but clearly still very anorexic 🤔
What does it mean when extreme hunger goes away and just the thought of food or eating is no longer appealing? What should I do/ or eat? I'm not fully recovered I'm still underweight. By the way I would probably be classified as anorexic binge purge type since I have more bulimic tendencies but am only 67lbs 5'7". Also I'm worried about developing type 2 diabetes from responding to my cravings
The “waves” are so accurate for a long term ed
How- I literally just returned to this channel because I had a mini relapse and needed Tabitha to put my head on straight. How funny ahah
Omg exactly the same!!!
This was my question. Thank you so much for answering! It means a lot and I think you are right. Love your attitude and approach towards recovery
Interesting. I always thought i had an initial "recovery" and then mini relapses like 3 times a year that lasted anywhere between a week and a few months. I kind of thought that it was more like a quasi recovery but i guess this makes way more sense, and explains why I feel like I've been going in circles since 2011.
What is your advise on anorexia recovery as a ballerina. I really struggle with seeing myself every day in the mirror while wearing a tight costume. I also struggle with compulsive exercise outside of ballet and I think having a two hour class every day isn t quite helpful
Do you have any advice for a recovering anorexic who also has T2? It means I basically have to eat super low carb foods to manage my blood sugar but it fucks up my idea of recovery :/
Please help. Still very underweight so why is my extreme hunger gone? Also I can't stop hoarding food just eating little bit then dumping the rest like I'm addicted to throwing stuff away. And why is my organizing ocd symptoms soooo out of control during recovering. I can't stop organizing it bothers me if stuff is not how I want it I literally lose sleep over it.
Hoarding food is sign of food scarcity, you are currently experiencing mental hunger, eat the food you think of, eat the food you are hoarding
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this resonated with me so so much!!! I get to x kg and then relapse back to a lower weight. each and every time I try 'recovery' this happens. Have been working with my team and I think its linked to never fully giving up behaviours. So even when im eating more, im exercising more, counting calories and eating with disordered behaviours. Im 23 but the last 7 years have been dedicated to maintaining my ED and only now realising how much it controls my life. Any tips for breaking this cycle im in where I gain weight just to lose it again?
Stop weighing yourself, it’s clearly a trigger for you x
What if I don't really afraid to gain weight, because I like my body and the way it looks. But I have irrational fear of being so fat, like 300 kg. It does not disturb me, I eat what I what . But this fear is in the background since my childhood.
Hi Tabitha. Thank you for your lovely videos🤗. I have a few questions here: I used to be obssessed with low-level movements when I had a restricted ED. I swept the floors a lot, cooked a lot (which do require a lot of standing) during those times.Now recovered, I find that I hate the idea of doing housechores and cooking. However, as I am well aware that as a grown adult, I am required to take in some level of responsiblity in the house, now living with my parents, such as cleaning and cooking. Has anyone gone through this as well?What are your thoughts on this? Is my hate for all these activities has something to do with my past ED? Thanks😁!
I completely relate with you. I used to be obsessed with cleaning and cooking and all the activities that makes me move more. when I started my recovery, I hated cooking (I was buying ready meals mostly or cooking so easy recipe) and I barely cleaned my apartment ( I was doing the bare minimum). IT IS SO RELATED to our past ED! and I think it is completely normal, as normal as hating to eat vegetables in recovery :D. Our bodies suffered from all these movements and I personally whenever I do them I remember my terrible ED years so that is why I hated them. Now I am back to normal *a bit* but whenever people suggested to cook or clean, I am more than happy to let them do it.. Take it easy on yourself and it will come back, if you must do something in your parents house, try to do the bare minimum while explaining to your parents the situation,
What about the feeling that you have to report take pictures or record everything you do in your recovery to feel valid. Like if their is nobody to see it how can I feel legitime to eat? I find it so difficult to just eat and not show the others my struggles what are they going to find of me?
The only one you have to convince that you are eating without restriction is you and your own brain :) no one cares how much you’ve gained or what you ate
literally no one gives a shit about what you ate. Calm Down and keep going
Is wanting to eat every two hours part of extreme hunger?
Dear Tabitha, I gained so much weight in the last 2 years eating whatever I want. I went from BMI 20 to now 31. Now I got high blood pressure and the doctor says I should move 1 hour 3 times a week. Will that be compulsive, too? Or will it delay recovery?
Hello how are you doing now
@@elen474 Hello, I am still struggling, but it might have to do with gluten...
Hi, I’ve been trying to recover and it’s so hard when my mom keeps dieting to lose weight even though I explained to her she’ll gain it all back and maybe some more, and I told her multiple times it triggers me so much. She’s the same person who put a lot of fatphobic, restrictive thoughts in my head when I was really young and she’s always told me she was “big” even though she’s objectively not. I’m so damn tired of seeing my parents diet and restrict over and over again while I try to recover from a damn deadly mental illness. Pls help me, I’m afraid I’m gonna relapse again...
Hello,you are helping me a lot! i do have a question though. If anorexia and binge eating disorder are two different genetic reactions to a famine, why is it that some obese people can have binge eating disorder and then go on to develop anorexia too. or would all eating disorders be the same disorder? Also there is someone in my family who is obese and i was talking about this theory and asked them if they have ever resricted food in the past and they said not at all. Is the idea that all obese people have restricted at some point? Alsooo i have seen videos of anorexic girls who recover and get very obese when they were not restricting.
So painfully familiar. Yet I am probably gonna be discharged from my treatment for doing so "well". Oh and yes, the first thing that comes to my mind when I want to do it the right way and actually eat without restriction without exercising like a mad woman and having cheat days to compensate for "eating a lot days" is... I need to loose a bit of weight? After nearly dying and needing tube feeding for months in 2019 I am almost at target weight but clearly still very anorexic 🤔
What does it mean when extreme hunger goes away and just the thought of food or eating is no longer appealing? What should I do/ or eat? I'm not fully recovered I'm still underweight. By the way I would probably be classified as anorexic binge purge type since I have more bulimic tendencies but am only 67lbs 5'7". Also I'm worried about developing type 2 diabetes from responding to my cravings