Last night, after not having dessert for probably six months or so, I had half a cup of ice cream (I measure portions, so I know exactly how many calories I'm eating). Now I feel so guilty, I feel like restricting what I eat to make up for it. I looked in the mirror and saw how thin my face looked and thought how bad can one tiny cup of ice cream be and besides I am trying to gain just one pound. I have to gain more than that, but one pound for now is my goal.
The guilt is overwhelming now though. Can anyone give me any advice for making me feel less guilty about things like this? I'm so tired of this.
Thanks--

I'm not sure I can give you any advice, but I know how you feel. I'm at the beginnings of trying to stop losing weight and it's really hard. Just today I had more than an egg white for lunch for the first time in months and I felt pissed at myself for allowing it. And at the same time I'm pissed at myself for being pissed at myself because I'm supposed to be trying to stop. It's hard to shut the voices up. Sometimes it helps me to concentrate not on how mad I am at myself, how guilty I feel emotionally, but more on how good my body felt after eating. It clears away some cobwebs, gives me a short jolt of energy. I don't know. That's just me. And for how cliche is sounds, I have to take it one day at a time, one meal at a time. EDs suck. ::hugs::

I wish you didn't have to feel so guilty after just 1/2 a cup of ice cream. Do you know that some people eat a bowl of ice cream after dinner every single day...and NO, I do not mean obese or even fat people...NORMAL people!
I am so happy that you have a goal to gain weight...it is a wonderful goal. And, to be honest, it takes MUCH more than a bowl of ice cream to even gain 1/2 a pound. Your body is probably so starving you could have eaten ten times that much! Like Anterrabae said, try and think about how much your body loved getting that nutrients. Food=energy=health=LIFE!!

It's all in your head..eatling a cup of ice cream is certainly not a big deal...u need to work on the realization that the guilt u feel when u eat is the main problem....good for u for trying to gian a pound...think positive..

Try telling yourself that your body is a beautiful "temple of God", and that it is ok to (actually, we need to) nourish it and tend to it. That in order to really fulfill your purpose in this life, you need the strength that comes from food.
And if there is a voice saying "but ice cream is so unhealthy" - well, actually not necessarily at all! Of course if you ate NOTHING BUT ice cream, it wouldn't be healthy. But a cup once in a while? Hey, there are actually some good nutrients in ice-cream. Like calcium... oh, and protein, and if you want to gain weight, even just one pound, protein is good I think, right?

Tend to your body like to a sick child....

Kathrin