Comparing YOUR Extreme Hunger with Others Extreme Hunger/ED RECOVERY

[@ida5239]

Some more tips I found helpful to identify my mental hunger: 1. If you’re debating whether you’re hungry or not, you probably are. 2. Ask yourself “If food had no calories, would I eat something right now? If so how much?”. Then try to eat that much (it’s probably a lot if you’re honest with yourself) 3. If you find yourself looking for permission to eat lots (e.g. by watching these types of videos), you need to eat lots. Another personal note: I didn’t have an eating disorder for a long time compared to others. This often made me feel unworthy or like I was not really that sick. But looking back, it completely ruined that time for me. Every. Single. Aspect of your life gets impacted by that ed even if you can’t see it fully. I notice now how my parents felt, how I abandoned most of my friends, lost sight of hobbies, lost my personality really and I am just so glad I made the decision to recover. Scrolling through KZbin and randomly munching on chocolates because I know there is no “too much”. Talking to my brother again and hugging him after screaming at him for months to leave the kitchen while I was weighing out my food. Talking to my friends about my illness and apologizing for not coming to that party and that movie night because I was scared of the food. I promise you, recovering makes everything better. I am just at the start too but I feel like I lost the ability to see colors because of my ed and I am just starting to see them again. Thank you Becky :))

[@AshleyBitton]

Thank you Becky 💜 it honestly it wasn’t until I really answered my mental hunger that I was able to get out of quasi recovery. Sending love to everybody!!! 💕💕

[@BloomingLisa]

I think embracing our hunger is important. I’ve made quite a lot of progress but I find myself still being afraid of eating larger quantities and also ogling at other peoples meals…and when you used the word ‘embrace’ I’ve never embraced my hunger. For me eating in response to hunger has been more of a ‘necessary evil’ but I think that approach is probably doing me an injustice during recovery. Thanks for helping to highlight an area that I need to do more work on. X

[@erinpedder]

Hey Becky, I am new to your content but really enjoying it so thankyou. I have a history of restriction, binge, purge (bulimia), opposed to Anorexia. Recovery guidance is similar I have learned though. Mental hunger is a tough one still though, despite now eating adequately. May I ask if you're able to speak to healing mental hunger from an over-eaters POV?

[@ME-uk8bh]

I would say first please try not to use morbidly obe@@ as a descriptor. The term obe@@ is very problematic for loads of people now. Also I would say many people have healthy set points in fat bodies. I know it’s a fear for us with eating disorders to find our set point is larger than we would like but it’s also reality for many and part of recovery is doing work around fat phobia.