My Anorexia Recovery Story

When I was around 13, I started to have a very unhealthy relationship with food. I grew up loving to eat but always was tiny. I could never gain weight and adults were always discussing my body. I was trying so hard. When I found out about disordered eating, my life took a turn for the worse.

Over the course of a full school year, I started to restrict more and started to see negative changes in my body. I was losing hair and had aches all over my body. I was always tired, depressed and started to become unmotivated. I think a lot of my friends knew and turned a blind eye until I started eating again.

I’m not sure why, but I decided that I didn’t want to be miserable anymore. I took back my life by recovering and gained a lot of support for that.

I was doing very well in high school and worked to gain healthy weight. I didn’t know that it would take experiencing a serious loss that would put me back in that mindset. I made a quick turnaround because I knew it wouldn’t benefit me, but I still struggle today. It may be hard to love my body somedays, though I know I’m still pretty tiny. I gained like 20 pounds on birth control and I feel all over the place about it. It’s a little harder when people bring it up in a negative context.

To wrap this up, I just want to encourage y’all to strive for a healthy mindset and positive body image. It’s a tough journey, but it absolutely can be done.

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