What Motivates You to Recover from Anorexia?

I just feel exhausted living my life this way. It controls everything in my life, I’m not in control, the anorexia is. It calls the shots about going out and seeing friends or dating (mainly, I don’t do social things so I can restrict/“control” my intake), it makes me miserable constantly. I don’t want to be like this forever. I want to be able to be a person that can bake and eat cookies with kids / grandkids someday and if I keep going like this I wouldn’t even be able to let myself do that. I don’t want to be this vain and obsessed with my weight and size when I’m older.

I think wanting to recover is a big step in recovery. I recognized how I was hurting myself and my body and even though I didn’t necessarily want to stop, I knew I had to. I was hurting the people around me and they didn’t know how to help. I set alarms on my phone to help remind me when to eat (create a false hunger, essentially). No scales, ever, that makes it so much harder. It’s hard, but it’s worth it and it’s possible.

Making eating enjoyable! You can eat with friends/family or distract yourself while you eat.

food... can be so enjoyable if u put the effort into being able to enjoy it again. its also because my partner and i can spent more... ~time~ together when i have stamina, and he likes my body. its helped me embrace it but different things motivate different ppl and im proud of u for considering recovery!! <3

If I hadn’t began my recovery I wouldn’t have been able to go to college

For me it was wanting to be better for my husband - it was affecting him so much and I hadn’t realized until he finally broke down. And as time went on in res I realized ~I~ wanted to be better. I wanted to go out with friends and drink a coffee without freaking out. I haven’t had that in 12 years. So it’s never too late! But, it’s hard as hell. I won’t sugarcoat that, it’s so so hard but every day is worth it. I am worth it and you are worth it.