I’ve been thinking about the difference between going all in with food to fully recover and just making small changes over time. I’ve always been in the make small changes camp but I’ve been working on this for almost 8 years and don’t feel like I’m much farther along than before. Sometime it really feels impossible to recover if I don’t just eat everything I want and gain a bunch of weight. but the fear of weight gain keeps me from doing this, even though I realize I’m keeping myself in this overly food focused world indefinitely. Any thoughts or experiences on this?
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Yeah, I think if you are at an artificially low weight that you can only sustain through restriction, your mind will remain focused on food. I know that has been the case with me. Once you are satisfied with your meals, both based on amount and the things you eat, your mind can let go and it's a lot easier. For me going through that process definitely involved trial and error. The hardest part was getting used to being overfull occasionally. But that's just normal eating to occasionally eat a lot and other times not as much.