Hey Caroline!
To answer your question, I think I'm about as recovered as a person can get. Perhaps there are some people out there who have recovered and have never been tempted to diet or purge, but I haven't met anyone who can honestly say they "never" think about it even after recovering. I still think about dieting now and then (very rarely), but I do not act on it, and more importantly, I can push the thought out of my head pretty quickly and not obsess over it. I've been "recovered" for over 4 years. The first year was hard -- really hard. My weight went up and down a bit (never by more than 5 or 6 lbs though) and I was constantly worried about "getting fat". I was moody, irritable, etc. I just kind of kept going. Through relapses and harder times I just decided that I wanted to be normal and not waste so much time and energy counting calories and picking up my hair off the bathroom floor.
I noticed that it was easier to "recover" as I started getting other things in my life in order. I got a great job, organized my finances, bought a house with the most wonderful man in the world, and just felt generally more in control of things. If you really make up your mind to kick an ED it's totally possible. I think that very often people make a half-hearted attempt to get better, don't try very hard and then get distressed b/c they think they failed. If you weren't really trying then you never really failed. It has to start with a decision to try.
[This message has been edited by Tricky (edited 02-16-2002).]
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