Hey there. I just came across your blog. I am a 19 year old female. In late 06 I began seeking treatment for my eating disorder, and in late 07 I left intensive outpatient at a healthy weight. From 07 to mid 08 I was doing really well maintaing my weight and feeling good about myself. In about three months I put on about 5 pounds. It freaked the hell out of me, and I think I need help. I’m so scared to talk about it, I’m ashamed to admit it to anyone. I want to be confident in myself, and do this on my own. I am eating properly. I am eating well, like I want. I just don’t know. I just need to know that there is someone else out there.
Hello,
I used to be emailed a daily inspiration everyday. But I changed my email address. How do I get back on the list for the daily inspirations to be emailed to me?
Thank you
Hello there! I was just googling about infomation for anorexia and came across ur blog. I have just read the first page April part, and it immediately soothed me. My sister is suffering with anorexia. So many thing you stated mirrored my sister. She has been an inpatient for 10 months and at the end of this month, after this very difficult period she will be discharged. We are obviously so over-the-moon she is coming home after so long, but we are realising its going to be a very long difficult journey. She still has many issues with food, her burning energy and her emotional status. She is in the current phase where she says she feels nothing, emotions wise. I know its not true, because of her actions and interests she has started to regain. Yes, she has become emotionally blunted but what would one expect after the trauma her body has gone through and still is. Then time to time she would admit she does feel things, but very reluctantly. I wanted to ask did you feel that too? Its something our family therapist really seems clueless about. Its quite frustrating, for us, because their aim doesn’t seem to help but just be present while we talk, and leave things unanswered. Personally, I am so sure if my sister met someone who was a recovered/near recovered anorexic it will push her to want to get better, but right now its just our words and her own will power.Also, do you have any wise words u would suggest for a family trying to convince their daughter to come back to a normal eating way of life please. Anyway, many many thanks. I can’t tell you how healing it was to hear what u wrote, especially how your life is so much better than before.
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Hi, My name is Lesley and I am the mother of an adult daughter suffering from an Eating Disorder. We came accross your blog while setting up our own. We have found your postings and the information on your site very interesting and informative. The reason i am writing is to find out what country you are in as we are in NSW Australia. Also wanting to know if we can either add you as a link to increase the flow to our site. We are trying to raise funds and need to reach a lot of people. Our site is very new and we do not have the contacts and information on it yet. I am a novice at this technology so am going slowly. I hope you can help us. Although there is much information on the website this illness needs more. it is dibilitating for everyone involved but recovery is beautiful to be a part of. Good luck with your process, your are worthy of wellness.
Not sure where to start. I grew up in the program (AA, NA, Alanon, Alateen, ACOA) and am very much involved in an NA workshop where I was able to find recovery for myself and my own afflictions (I am not an addict, nor do I suffer from an eating disorder, but physical and mental illness), but I was recently approached by my father’s grand-sponsee (a very close sponsorship family, between me and my fathers sponsees) and he asked me to talk to his sister who suffers from Anorexia.
Her biggest issue has been finding a way to relate in the program. She’s been to OA and NA, but the inability to relate is hard on her. I can easily relate to that, my father having been sober before I was born and my going to Alateen, going to NA for my own affliction while not being an addict. So I’m able to talk to her about that.
She would like to do some step work with me, and of course I’m open and will gladly do so, however I think I should do my research first.
Being pressed for time I will be able to take a better look at your blog another day, but I thought I could go to the source. What suggestions do you have? How do you relate the steps to your affliction? Is there any 12 step literature directly related to Anorexia?
I look forward to reading more, working with another person is my greatest relief in recovery and I’m excited to be working with her, and wish to be of the utmost help to her.
Hello,
My name is Taylor and i am a student from Mission heights Junior College from New Zealand. Me and my 2 friends Judy and Farangees are doing a bulimia project for our english class. We need more information about Bulimia, so we are looking for someone that we can interview. If there is someone that can help could you please email me.
Hi. I like your blog. Me myself, I’m also an eating disordered sufferer. But I’m currently in recovery! Good luck to you and keep up with the good posting /Arcadia
I just came accross your blog when I goggled “binging when recovering from anorexia why”. I have to say, this is one of the most well written, honest and even humurous at times accounts of a long standing eating disorder. I am currently attempting to recover (again) from EDNOS (I think, this time around). I am 25 and in my 10th year of disordered eating. I sit here, covered in cysts from malnutrion and on the back end of a week long binge. WELCOME TO RECOVERY. Hurrah.
Hi everybody, we are making a video and a documentary on experiences of anorexic or bulimic and how we have overcome or recovered and come to love ourselves being healthy. If you want to be involved in this please contact me at mary@canvueproductions.com
I stumdled on this blog by mistake, but I’m glad I did. Oddly enough I have to agree with you on a lot of your posts. It is incredibly rare to find eloquent arguments for/against anorexia in blogs. Your experience and perspective is something that every girl fancying herself anorexic should read… As a ‘former’ anorectic who is in a ‘recovery’ (of sorts), I can relate to almost everything you speak of.
I’ve been EDNOS for over 4 years now. At my lowest I reached 90 pounds. Terrible as that sounds, but I thought I was finally on the way to achieving something that people want and would admire. After a lot of research, personal experience and frantic discussions, I now wonder if it ever was… Anorexia isn’t pretty. I’m glad that you are showing people this. It isn’t thinspo of well toned pretty girls or models, who are (in all probability) healthy. Anorexia isn’t attractive. It isn’t admirable. It is bereft of a real purpose and leaves you lost and weak and pathetic. It is a slow suicide without a cause.
We’ve put ourselves through it, time and time again. It became an addiction. A And is it worth it?… Surely, we could have found a better way to cope with the stress, the need to be perfect, the desperation to be the best… We chose to nearly kill ourselves in the process of attaining something that could be easily achieved through other means or (worse yet) isn’t a real achievement. So my question is, why did it have to be this disease? If we find a real answer, then maybe there is hope yet…
Keep writing. Rare honestly is what keeps us going…
This is all new to me my doctor told me to come and check it out and see what i think. Cause as of right now im struggling with the thought that i dont have control over my eating. i do not like food and am not hungry but i do drink coffee all day and it has cream and sugar in it so im not completly depriving my body of anything. Not even sure what to say on here i guess maybe i need some help and this is where i should start
Hey there. I just came across your blog. I am a 19 year old female. In late 06 I began seeking treatment for my eating disorder, and in late 07 I left intensive outpatient at a healthy weight. From 07 to mid 08 I was doing really well maintaing my weight and feeling good about myself. In about three months I put on about 5 pounds. It freaked the hell out of me, and I think I need help. I’m so scared to talk about it, I’m ashamed to admit it to anyone. I want to be confident in myself, and do this on my own. I am eating properly. I am eating well, like I want. I just don’t know. I just need to know that there is someone else out there.
Hello,
I used to be emailed a daily inspiration everyday. But I changed my email address. How do I get back on the list for the daily inspirations to be emailed to me?
Thank you
Hello there! I was just googling about infomation for anorexia and came across ur blog. I have just read the first page April part, and it immediately soothed me. My sister is suffering with anorexia. So many thing you stated mirrored my sister. She has been an inpatient for 10 months and at the end of this month, after this very difficult period she will be discharged. We are obviously so over-the-moon she is coming home after so long, but we are realising its going to be a very long difficult journey. She still has many issues with food, her burning energy and her emotional status. She is in the current phase where she says she feels nothing, emotions wise. I know its not true, because of her actions and interests she has started to regain. Yes, she has become emotionally blunted but what would one expect after the trauma her body has gone through and still is. Then time to time she would admit she does feel things, but very reluctantly. I wanted to ask did you feel that too? Its something our family therapist really seems clueless about. Its quite frustrating, for us, because their aim doesn’t seem to help but just be present while we talk, and leave things unanswered. Personally, I am so sure if my sister met someone who was a recovered/near recovered anorexic it will push her to want to get better, but right now its just our words and her own will power.Also, do you have any wise words u would suggest for a family trying to convince their daughter to come back to a normal eating way of life please. Anyway, many many thanks. I can’t tell you how healing it was to hear what u wrote, especially how your life is so much better than before.
Hi! Beautiful blog! I’m so glad you’re in recovery
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Hi, My name is Lesley and I am the mother of an adult daughter suffering from an Eating Disorder. We came accross your blog while setting up our own. We have found your postings and the information on your site very interesting and informative. The reason i am writing is to find out what country you are in as we are in NSW Australia. Also wanting to know if we can either add you as a link to increase the flow to our site. We are trying to raise funds and need to reach a lot of people. Our site is very new and we do not have the contacts and information on it yet. I am a novice at this technology so am going slowly. I hope you can help us. Although there is much information on the website this illness needs more. it is dibilitating for everyone involved but recovery is beautiful to be a part of. Good luck with your process, your are worthy of wellness.
Hello,
Not sure where to start. I grew up in the program (AA, NA, Alanon, Alateen, ACOA) and am very much involved in an NA workshop where I was able to find recovery for myself and my own afflictions (I am not an addict, nor do I suffer from an eating disorder, but physical and mental illness), but I was recently approached by my father’s grand-sponsee (a very close sponsorship family, between me and my fathers sponsees) and he asked me to talk to his sister who suffers from Anorexia.
Her biggest issue has been finding a way to relate in the program. She’s been to OA and NA, but the inability to relate is hard on her. I can easily relate to that, my father having been sober before I was born and my going to Alateen, going to NA for my own affliction while not being an addict. So I’m able to talk to her about that.
She would like to do some step work with me, and of course I’m open and will gladly do so, however I think I should do my research first.
Being pressed for time I will be able to take a better look at your blog another day, but I thought I could go to the source. What suggestions do you have? How do you relate the steps to your affliction? Is there any 12 step literature directly related to Anorexia?
I look forward to reading more, working with another person is my greatest relief in recovery and I’m excited to be working with her, and wish to be of the utmost help to her.
God Bless and Namaste.
Hello,
My name is Taylor and i am a student from Mission heights Junior College from New Zealand. Me and my 2 friends Judy and Farangees are doing a bulimia project for our english class. We need more information about Bulimia, so we are looking for someone that we can interview. If there is someone that can help could you please email me.
Thank You
Taylor
Judy
Farangees
Hi. I like your blog. Me myself, I’m also an eating disordered sufferer. But I’m currently in recovery! Good luck to you and keep up with the good posting
/Arcadia
I just came accross your blog when I goggled “binging when recovering from anorexia why”. I have to say, this is one of the most well written, honest and even humurous at times accounts of a long standing eating disorder. I am currently attempting to recover (again) from EDNOS (I think, this time around). I am 25 and in my 10th year of disordered eating. I sit here, covered in cysts from malnutrion and on the back end of a week long binge. WELCOME TO RECOVERY. Hurrah.
Hi everybody, we are making a video and a documentary on experiences of anorexic or bulimic and how we have overcome or recovered and come to love ourselves being healthy. If you want to be involved in this please contact me at mary@canvueproductions.com
Hi there,
I stumdled on this blog by mistake, but I’m glad I did. Oddly enough I have to agree with you on a lot of your posts. It is incredibly rare to find eloquent arguments for/against anorexia in blogs. Your experience and perspective is something that every girl fancying herself anorexic should read… As a ‘former’ anorectic who is in a ‘recovery’ (of sorts), I can relate to almost everything you speak of.
I’ve been EDNOS for over 4 years now. At my lowest I reached 90 pounds. Terrible as that sounds, but I thought I was finally on the way to achieving something that people want and would admire. After a lot of research, personal experience and frantic discussions, I now wonder if it ever was… Anorexia isn’t pretty. I’m glad that you are showing people this. It isn’t thinspo of well toned pretty girls or models, who are (in all probability) healthy. Anorexia isn’t attractive. It isn’t admirable. It is bereft of a real purpose and leaves you lost and weak and pathetic. It is a slow suicide without a cause.
We’ve put ourselves through it, time and time again. It became an addiction. A And is it worth it?… Surely, we could have found a better way to cope with the stress, the need to be perfect, the desperation to be the best… We chose to nearly kill ourselves in the process of attaining something that could be easily achieved through other means or (worse yet) isn’t a real achievement. So my question is, why did it have to be this disease? If we find a real answer, then maybe there is hope yet…
Keep writing. Rare honestly is what keeps us going…
This is all new to me my doctor told me to come and check it out and see what i think. Cause as of right now im struggling with the thought that i dont have control over my eating. i do not like food and am not hungry but i do drink coffee all day and it has cream and sugar in it so im not completly depriving my body of anything. Not even sure what to say on here i guess maybe i need some help and this is where i should start