Hi, Mops
I'm sorry to read that you had to suffer with an eating disorder. I'm not sure what that must be like, exactly, but I can imagine that it must have been sheer heck. I went through a period in my life, when I was a young teenager, where I started to place a lot of pressure on myself to be thin. I had friends who had similar ideas (one who I think was anorexic, herself), and I nearly found myself sucked into their world. I could never really starve myself, though, and I began to realize that I would rather be healthy than thin, anyway.
One thing that I have learned is that you can't expect to be perfect at anything when you first try it. You need to give yourself some room for imperfection and to make mistakes. Life is a learning process, and you need to treat it as such. Second, the best way to take care of your body is to eat/do anything that you want to do IN MODERATION. You can eat sugars and chocolate and all those other things
, and still be healthy and fit, as long as you eat only moderate amounts of them. Also, I have found that by eating more than three meals per day (like 5-6 small meals each day), I actually feel better. I have read that your metabolism functions much better when it is not starved but, rather, fed on a fairly continous basis. I know this may be really hard to believe, but it has been proved, and it is a much healthier way to live. Your body needs calories to function (your brain needs fats to function, just as your organs need to be cushioned by fats in order not to be bruised when you move or bump into things). I'm sure that there are some books and internet articles that you can read to find out more, so try looking these things up.
Well, now that I have written a novel
, I will just add that I hope this helps you to become more healthy. Please continue to post on this board, as everyone here enjoys helping others
.
~Colleen
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