Things To Remember in Recovery

Things To Remember in Recovery

• Recovery is your first and foremost priority.  It should NEVER come second to anything else in your life. 
• Recovery is a choice that you make every day and it will take one day, one meal, one month, one minute, or one second at a time.
• As long as you are able to  learn from slip-ups, they aren't "failures".
• Being recovered and healthy does not mean that you are happy all the time.
• Even at your lowest weight you will never be satisfied and know that you'll never be happy going that way.
• Recovery is going to be uncomfortable.  Change is uncomfortable.  The discomfort is a sign that you are working on getting better.
• You must do what feels unnatural until it feels natural.
• You must remember that you are getting stronger every day.
• Don't expect immediate results.  Just keep working towards recovery.
• You don't want to be like this when you're thirty, forty etc...The longer that you have the eating disorder the harder it will be to recover, you want to beat this NOW!
• It  takes more to overcome your eating disorder than to remain with your eating disorder.
• Recovery is about make a small series of positive choices over time.
• Even when you can't see the steps that you are making in recovery, they are there.  Remember how far you have come with your recovery process.
• Acceptance and Patience are the key to moving forward; nothing is automatic and everything requires hard work.
• You can't control any of your triggers, but you can control how you react to your triggers.
• Unhealthy behaviors will NEVER accomplish anything-they make far more problems that they solve.
• You can't get rid of any feelings when you are enmeshed with your eating disorder behaviors-instead your are destroying your health.
• Life happens; it's not something to be controlled, quantified, planned, or established.
• Eating does not make you needy or greedy or unexplained; it makes you  live your life.
• There is a  connection between your thoughts, feelings, and actions and your thinking needs to change before your actions can change.
• There is a reason for your pain.  You may not understand what lesson you are being taught, but there is always a lesson behind everything that is happening.
• If you have a bad morning, you can improve the same day.  You don't have to wait to start over tomorrow.
• Everyone falls down, but only the strongest pick themselves up and keep trying at recovery.
• Whether or not you feel like recovering, you need to, and you need to keep faith that happiness is just around to coronor.
• You have to be prepared to give up your eating disorder completely if you want to be recovered-there is no half way point, there is no negation.
• The eating disorder has ruined some wonderful times in your life. You don't want your eating disorder to continue ruining your life.
• If you feel the feeling you will  feel more "cleansed" than any eating disorder could ever bring you.
• You are more in control what you are doing that is right for you rather than following the evil monster-the eating disorder.
• Life enmeshed in an eating disorder is a scary, but if you don't try at recovery, you will NEVER know there is a whole new world full of life waiting to be discovered.
• This is a fight for your life...you are NOT invincible and your body is NOT resilient
• Your eating disorder leads to noting except 8 feet in the ground and death.
• You cannot have an eating disorder and live life...you have to recover first.
• You can live life to the fullest, there is so much you can do with your life, even if you don't believe it right now. Someday you will believe it.
• You have incredible gifts that you can give back to the world.  It is not a sum, it cannot be quantified.  Your gift to the world can be given each and every day.
• There is so much more in your future than you have ever planned for your life after recovery.