Good vs Bad food
So things are going really really well for me at the moment. If i just think about how far i ahve come in the past month i get so over whelmed....with all different types of emotions!!! I am getting my taste for life back and finally have that motivation and drive to beat the demon anorexia!!! I am getting angry at the ed and that hasnt happened in well over 6 years. Im only 19 and while i have been suffering for 6 years i know there is so much more life ahead of me to enjoy!!! I want live i chose life!!!
But my god is recovery hard and challenging. I am pushing myself way way out of my comfort zone when it comes to food and really just sticking and trusting my meal plan. So this morning I wanted to push myself.....i always loved cereal with ice cold milk and basically lived off it throughout my childhood!!! Usually i have weetabix because i know there "healthy" and nutritious!!! But this morning i TRIED to listen to wat i reallt felt like....wat did my tummy want to eat???? I always watch my dad have a big bowl of cornflakes and am so so envious of him. So i decided this orning why cant i have a bowl of cornflakes?? Ok they might not be as nutritous as porridge but they are something i truely love and have deprived myself of for so so so long. And so i did it....i had a bowl of cornflakes with freezing cold milk.....!!!! Wow they tasted good....it was so so so weird!!! Ok i ate them really quickly cause a part of me just wanted to finish them and get them over with but they tasted so so so nice...i felt like crying with pure joy!!! How strange that something most people take for granted I cry over and take a half an hour to persuade myself to have. So I want to say well done to me!!!
So are there good and bad foods??? are cornflakes and rice krispies nutritionally deplete of goodness????? Or is it ok to eat them because i like them and Ed doesnt??I am confused because I remember marie telling me once u might aswell eat the cereal box because that wud be better for u than the cornflakes!!! A little advice and help wud be very much appreciated!!!
I finally just want to say A HUGE THANKs to Iceberg....since ive joined a month ago i can finally say i am in recovery and I know a part of it is thanks to this wonderful inspiring community of AMAZING people!!!
Love always eva xxxx
Dear Eva,
Firstly I just want to say well done on fighting so hard - you truly are an inspiration!
There really are no 'good' foods or 'bad' foods. Food is our body's fuel and, more often than not in recovery, it is also our medicine so we need to make sure we give it high quality fuel and treat it with the best medicine. I would agree with Marie when she says that there is probably more nutritional value in the box of cornflakes than in the cornflakes themselves! BUT... this does not mean that you can never have cornflakes again! Recovery is all about balance in every area of our lives and that includes nutrition. Since I have recovered and have learnt to listen to my body, I usually opt for foods that make me feel good and give me energy because that is what my body asks for. In saying that, sometimes I feel like having something that is less nourishing and that is OK too. There are evenings when I come home from work absolutely wrecked, and when I listen to my body it tells me it is too tired to face into shopping and cooking so we order a pizza! I couldn't do this every evening, nor would I want to because I would not feel good but I am not going to do any damage having it once in a while. If we keep telling ourselves we cannot have something or we should not have something, then more often than not we end up obsessing about it or craving it even more.
Eva, keep up the fantastic work and enjoy your journey of discovery :-)
C
Thats really interesting i still see recovery as doin eating the perfect food all the time and been extra health consious .... or even justifying what u have in place of good or bad labels, another form of restriction i guess. i guess by trusting the advise hun and seeing what works and what doesnt will lead to balance.....
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your so right......if i want cornflakes some mornings than who is stopping me?????? I am in charge,...noone else. I think ill stick with my porridge and weetabix but maybe as a treat one or twice a week i can indulge in a nice bowl of cornflakes!!! Its all about listening to ur body's needs and wants....something i have neglected 4 tooooooooooooooo long!!!!
Thanks so so much Xxxxxxxxxxx Freedom here i come!!!!!!!!!