To The Person In Eating Disorder Recovery Who Is Struggling To Accept Body Changes

Your recovery from an eating disorder has been going strong. Perhaps you’ve been making strides in facing “fear foods,” are opening up in therapy, and learning how to use new coping strategies. Then, for some reason or another, you find out your current weight, which often causes “the eating disorder self” to start freaking out. Suddenly, you may find yourself faced with loud “eating disorder thoughts” and a desire to go back to your disordered behaviors.

For some people with eating disorders, recovery can bring about body changes. Not everyone’s eating disorder causes weight loss. However, for those whose eating disorder kept them below their natural weight range, recovery will help your body to get back to its set-point weight.