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Anorexia Recovery Turned Orthorexia

Aly4285
Aly4285

I was wondering if anyone had any tips on “normalizing” my thought pattern/relationship with healthy food and exercise. I’m at a good BMI and feeling on top of the world... I look healthy for once (hair, skin, nails especially),my bdd has mainly disappeared (thank God!!), and I’m not hiding from going out and enjoying myself.. so there have been a lot of improvements! But the one struggle I’m left with is now being obsessed (only comfortable) with healthy eating and exercising/moving/fidgeting every single day. If I have a lazy day or even try to sit through a movie, I feel so guilty for not moving or getting something done. Just sitting here, writing this, I’m thinking I need to find a YouTube workout to do. It feels like working out is my justification for eating normal amounts of food. Do I eat my full meals even if I feel guilty? YES! I’m not falling back into restricting, but it’s so hard, mentally, to not get depressed if I feel like I didn’t do enough in a day. Sorry that was soo long,

Jillsaundars
Jillsaundars
Maybe try some cbt to challenge the way you think?
According to dbt doing what makes you feel guilty repeatedly when it's okay, will stop you having the feeling

Try logically thinking through what is healthy, with a dietician, government guidelines are like fifty mins a day exercise

Once you know that your eating and exercise are healthy and balanced and your maintaining a good weight as a result..... Would that help? Are you already at this place?

A professional said once that the more stuff in your life the smaller the obsession with food becomes

or Maybe you need some long term therapy to process some past pain your distracting yourself from??

Or maybe have a checklist for the week and if you get half done congratulate yourself???

Hope you get through this patch, sounds like your on your way to full recovery
ButterflyKisses12
ButterflyKisses12
I felt this way too, I was SO obsessed with working out and eating healthy. When I stopped doing healthy things, that is when everything went downhill, I began to feel terrible, my anxiety was (and still is) so high about not eating healthy and exercising everyday and the thought of getting fat. Now, I am stuck at a place where I have convinced myself that there is something wring with my throat so I cannot eat without choking. I need help as well.. I can't exercise anymore because I feel like if I do, I have not been eating enough anyways.