My best advice is to continue what you're doing. Keep your head up, and remember this is FOR YOU not for your therapist or your parents. Embrace your beautiful body, and go out and enjoy life. Screw those that want to bring you down.

However, my advice is to stick closely to your meal plan in order not to spiral in case things get tough. You might want to intuitively eat, but just keep that meal plan on hand when times get rough or triggering. :)

i say have the meal plan there in case you feel yourself slipping...and try to get the basic food groups in but it sounds like you are eating normally right now! which is awesome!!! just know that bieng too cocky is how ed's rear their ugly heads again and that's why the meal plan is there..just in case an off day becomes an off week. ok? keep it up girl!

the best way to show them that ur seriously better is to just keep maintaining ur healthy weight...and by intuitively eating like u r...no one will be able to argue with the evidence right there for them to see

good for you for getting to such a good place! as lapetitemoi said don't worry about what others think - you are in charge of your body and you know what's best for yourself. it sounds like right now you're doing brilliantly so the others need to back off and let you look after yourself

Congratulations for maintaining your healthy weight. Tell your therapist that your are being honest because if you would lie to her there would be no point in having therapy. Maybe if you feel strong enough change from her to an after care group. Your Mom is probably just worried. You have to admit that we are great at lying when we start out, so give her some time to see that you are maintaining. Most important though is that you know that you are recovered. Don't let anybody take that away from you. Believing in yourself is one of the most important things on the way to happiness.

Thank you guys :D I know it's gonna take time to prove it to them but in the meanwhile it's a downer that they don't believe in me as much as I thought they would.

The hospital did something similar to me as well. They never stopped hounding me for my vegetarianism. They underestimated me completely and made it clear they thought I'd have a harder, slower recovery because I wasn't eating meat, which in reality makes no sense whatsoever. They constantly tried to get me to revert back to eating meat.

I stuck with vegetarianism, but because I did so, they bumped my meal plan up really high without giving me a chance. I ended up gaining very quickly, too fast for comfort actually, because of it. I mentally recovered extremely rapidly also, and in doing so I completely proved them wrong... so, technically, I did prove that I can do it. That's really why it bothers me especially - I have proof it's very, very likely I'll be fine, yet they still don't seem to think so.

Grr, it's just frustrating.

I can definitely see where you would be discouraged. Here you are, feeling strong and brave - and wanting them to back you up - and they just aren't.

From your therapist's perspective - she's going to want to keep you in a place - on a plan - so she can keep working with emotions as they come up. Having you on a meal plan means she has knowledge that you're eating approved nutrition choices. It means that therapy gets to focus on YOU rather than you using food as subterfuge, because often we hide how we're feeling in how we treat food.

Now, you feel fine. You're not doing it for EDed reasons. And that's cool. But I don't really blame her for wanting to have you stick with a program.

Congratulations on feeling the way you do! Keep it up. All you can do is show them that their fears are unfounded.

All I have to say is congratulations. Keep up the awesome work. I'm so glad you've reached your goal. Maybe your therapist doesn't believe in you...but you have 8 people right here who do. Good job, you deserve a great big, gentle pat on the back.