eating disorders donโt just go away. my moms 51st birthday is tomorrow and sheโs telling us to not make a cake because she knows she wonโt eat it. she is turning 51 and has been this way since 13. without recovery it is not going to be fixed. it is a mental disorder.
โeat until youโre satisfiedโ โeat until youโre fullโ โeat when youโre hungryโ sounds like gibberish when youโre talking to someone who has ZERO concept of hunger signals and cues ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ I DONT KNOW WHEN IM HUNGRY OR WHEN IM FULL OR WHEN IM SATISFIED
Neverrr forget that eds donโt just โgo awayโ. I was at my grandmaโs house yesterday for lunch and she made burgers. Sheโs 75 and complained the whole time abt how a bun is a โwaste of caloriesโ and she needs to burn it off. 75 years old. Since she was 15. 60 years of suffering.
having an ed means having the most obscure things being triggering. feeling warm? triggering. not being constipated? triggering. any compliments? triggering. random person going on a run? triggering. everything is triggering somehow
me staring at the recovery influencer whoโs obsessed with protein bars, protein powder, hitting their protein intake, pilates, lifting weights, hot girl walks, green juice, gut cleanses, and being โstrong not skinnyโ
i absolutely hate eds and how they distort EVERYTHING. i was reaching for the toaster to make a bagel & my mom said โdinners really soonโ and now iโm actually so angry and sad that i donโt even want a bagel anymore JUST because she said that. like what?? why am i so upset
people truly do not understand how having an ed is a literal full time job. regardless of if you're in recovery or not, the thoughts of food, weight, bmi, calories, etc. is physically overwhelming and exhausting. trying to balance literally everything + those thoughts is so hard.
yโall seriously donโt understand how annoying that girl is from my class who brags 24/7 about never eating ๐ญ she literally tells our cooking teacher โyeah i donโt eat because i have an ed and lose weight unhealthilyโ and everyone just goes silent, itโs so WEIRDD
today is ed awareness week. thatโs exactly why iโm going to post graphic photos of my sick body and go very in depth about my disordered behaviours ๐ ik i have an ed and know the competitiveness.. but iโm still doing it โบ๏ธ๐ธ btw i was bmi 2 and i ate 1 calorie every other year.
Itโs honestly so weird how โmainstreamโ edtwt is now?? I remember when I was on it in 2020/2021 it was a much smaller community, and now posts from it that show up on my tl have like 40k likes?? 100k likes?? what the hell
an ed is not just 'i want to be skinny'. an ed is self harming, it's an addiction, it's a coping mechanism, it's a comfort tool, it's an escape - it's why it's so hard to recover from. i am so proud of every single person who is fighting their ed today, i know how hard ur working
bloated? it will pass. feeling guilty? it will pass. feeling bad about your body? it will pass. regretting eating? it will pass. these negative feelings will pass and you will be okay. just hold on a bit longer. you got this <3
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eating disorder recovery! *. * ยท
- a motivational thread for anyone who needs it!
( THIS IS YOUR SIGN TO RECOVER )
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can we PLEASE talk about how your ed makes you have FOOD nightmares? there were nights when iโd wake up in a sweat, heart racing, eyes watering just because i had a dream about.. eating pizza? like that was so weird. iโm so happy i donโt have those anymore
my mom, who is turning 50, was just bawling her eyes out because of the โvoice in her headโ. sheโs referring to her ed. it does not just โgo awayโ when you get older. she has had an ed since she was 13, but never got the proper help & continues to live w it everyday. recover <3
โEat until youโre full!โ โEat until youโre satisfied!โ โEat until youโre not hungry anymore!โ If only it was that easy. IF ONLYYYY!!!!!!
what is the odd obsession with non disordered people talking about how they haven't eaten all day? like genuinely??? i really can't comprehend or understand what they want out of saying it
having a restrictive ed means feeling like you have to go the bathroom, sitting down, fighting for your life for 20 minutes, and looking in the toilet to find a SINGULAR rabbit dropping.
hearing the words 'calories' or 'eating disorder' literally gives me whiplash. like?? you should NOT know about those things!! who do you think you are????
fear foods are so crazy. iโll eat a donut.. but normal coke?? HELL NAH ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ ๐ปโโ๏ธ
โwieiad recovery! no restrictions ๐โ and its a yogurt bowl for breakfast, a protein bar for a snack, and a salad for dinner with halo top for dessert
one thing i never see people talking about is how sometimes someoneโs ed is the only thing keeping them โaliveโ. it sounds crazy because itโs literally killing you, but when youโre so depressed & sick, those goal weights & โdreamsโ often keep you going. it makes recov so hard.
me when i realize that non disordered people mentioning that they havenโt eaten all day is because eating is so insignificant and normal to them that it is just the same as saying โi havenโt slept at allโ or saying that theyโre tired ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐คฏ๐คฏ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐คฏ๐คฏ๐คฏ๐คฏ๐คฏ๐คฏ
diet coke turned into ordering a milkshake, cooking spray turned into oil, rice cakes turned into white bread with butter, exercising turned into laying on the couch and watching movies, and food scales only became used when baking cookies. i ๐ค recovery.
one of my great grandmothers last words on her death bed, dying of cancer, were โat least iโm losing weightโ. i hope people truly understand that eds are not just a silly little disordered; itโs a lifelong illness unless treated. it does not go away.
Do not listen to the bitches on edtwt making threads about how bad recovery is. Do not listen to a single mf who isnโt recovered speaking about recovery. I am basically fully recovered and I have zero regrets, itโs the best thing Iโve ever done. They are MISERABLE AND SICK!
there is this one girl in my class who always brags abt never eating and CONSTANTLY talks about having an ed.. and today she was talking to me about how she never eats breakfast so i started going on about how good my breakfast was this morning ๐ญ
itโs crazy to me how non disordered people exist?? like my dad will have three pancakes and then he wonโt eat until dinner or until hours later.. but if i had three pancakes i know iโd eat them, then immediately be thinking about my next meal and counting down until it ๐ฅฒ
i hope that youโre able to heal yourself and pull yourself out of the black hole of apathy that you wallow in every single day so you donโt feel the need to take it out on recovery accounts. absolutely embarrassing.
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literally we were cooking for a HOMELESS SHELTER and she says โomg the homeless are eatingโฆ unlike me ๐โ and started doing a little dance while saying sheโs disordered. i canโt make this up, i SWEAR
coming onto twitter just to see recovery accs preaching about how their metabolism has sped up SO much in recovery & how they are losing weight makes me so angry.
mfs with eds when they realize that they are not in control and that their ed is actually controlling THEM ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐
is it bad the โthings my ed made me doโ threads are triggering ๐ญ like i get the point of them, to de-romanticize eds, but at the same time it just feels like a competition to see whoโs done worse things since eds are so competitive. NO HATE TO ANYONE!! anyone else feel similar?
i was licking the spatula after baking and my brother said โthink about all of the calories..โ and i just looked at him and he went โitโs just a test to see if you care anymore.โ โฆ i donโt care anymore but damn why would you say that ๐ญ
what iโve noticed since iโve
been in all in ana recovery เญจโกเญง
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no one on 3dtwt should be famous. it is so scary & harmful to see such vulnerable, young girls accumulate such a large following cus of their malnourished and dying body. it is so heartbreaking. i cannot believe such a community exists
when you develop an ed, you also develop the love language of ensuring that those around you are eating well & eating enough. i bake for all of my friends, i always pack my mom & dad lunches to take to work, i make breakfast for my brother โ i always want them to eat enough ๐
itโs so weird how much social media warps your perception. after spending all day on 3dtwt, looking at emancipated bodies & th1nsp0.. i expected to go outside and see every girl with a body like that and was soo surprised when i realized that literally NO one looks like that?
people really do not understand the mental & emotional turmoil that you experience when you have an ed; it's traumatizing. losing friends & family, constantly fearing death, persistent guilt, feeling doomed & helpless, failing school - literally watching yourself die and decay.
itโs eating disorder awareness week! whether or not youโre in recovery, not in recovery, in semi recovery, relapsing, or somewhere in between; know that you are seen, heard and valid. your struggles are real and you deserve to recover, you deserve to be happy. ๐ค
โ The หหห best things หหห about
being in ALL IN ED recovery ห๏ฝกโ
- From someone who has been in all in
recovery for a year! เญจโกเญง
(this is your sign to recover!)
reminder; recovery is not just going to the gym, eating oats everyday, having protein bars, and doing pilates. recovery can be laying on the couch and eating a bag of chips, or watching a movie and having a bag of candy. recovery is not what social media makes it out to be.
โhereโs a photo of me at my sickest! iโm extremely underweight here and malnourished, itโs even a bodycheck ๐ฆ๐งโโ๏ธโจ๐๐ฑ anyway! remember to recover and be safe xโ โ every instagram recovery influencer
gaining fat saved my life. i gained all of my weight back in fat, no muscle. iโve never been to the gym, i donโt go on runs, i donโt do pilates. and guess what? this is the healthiest and happiest iโve been. i have my period. iโm happy and confident. fat is not your enemy
extreme hunger is not just being ravenous and your stomach aching from hunger pains. it's eating and never being full or satisfied, it's thinking about food 24/7, it's feeling like a bottomless pit, it's planning your next meal, it's baking to get 'rid of' the feeling.
anorexia took everything from me and gave me absolutely nothing in return. i have permanent health issues, i have trauma, i lost my friends, my social life, my familyโs trust โ i literally lost myself in the midst of it all. i was a zombie & i cannot believe ppl romanticize this.
โiโm so glad for recovery because *insert most triggering detailed description of symptoms in order to feel validated and to prove sickness*โ like we do not need to know your heart rate was 5 and you couldnโt lay in bed because your spine was poking out too much! damn
โIโll never let my ed get this far.. i just want to be skinny ๐โ wait until it is no longer about being skinny & itโs just about wanting to slowly die, nothing becomes good enough, ur whole life revolves around control, and u just want to disappear.
it must be so traumatizing for these young girls who are solely โpopularโ on twitter for taking pictures of their emaciated bodies and posting them online. 15 year olds are being called โgoalsโ after destroying their organs. it is truly damaging beyond repair
โi miss my edโ you were tired, miserable and exhausted. every single day was a count down until your next meal, every single day was a countdown until the next day. living was a chore. all you thought about was food. everything revolved around calories. you donโt miss it.
@pecanoats
this is so true. the other night i said 'i'm so excited to eat my oatmeal tomorrow morning' to my mom and she went '..you're already thinking about that?' ๐ญ๐ญ
did anyone else used to be veryy self aware during their ed? i remember when i was engaging in my disordered behaviours iโd literally be saying โthis is so stupid, this doesnโt even make sense, i have to recoverโ yet i wouldnโt stop?? i literally couldnโt. itโs wild
Did you notice that girl in the grocery store you walked by binged the night before? Did you notice the boy you saw stopped at a red light went up a size in pants and he hates himself for it? Did you notice that person who you saw walking gained weight? No? BECAUSE NO ONE CARES๐ญ
how it feels to gain weight in a society that praises weight loss, glamorizes disordered habits and constantly promotes different ways to diet while demonizing weight gain
it's 'i want people to notice that i'm sick' until they DO notice. until they are body checking YOU, or making insensitive, triggering comments that further feed into disordered thoughts. it's even harder in recov, bcus as i'm trying to get AWAY from my ed, my parents validate it
a tweet on 3dtwt was literally my inspo to recover last june ๐ญ it was something like โcanโt wait to lay in bed and rot all summer, just waiting for each day to be overโ and i seriously could NOT take living like that anymore
my ed was really like โyeah sheโs says ur eating too much and donโt deserve to eat a bagelโ when itโs literally 6pm and dinner is almost done. ๐ญ
i was planning a relapse all today. i counted my calories, i watched what i ate, i didnโt join in. but just an hour ago my dad asked if i wanted to watch a christmas movie w him. i was about to say no, but i stopped myself, got a piece of cheesecake, and spent time with him ๐ค
โhot girls eat 3 mealsโ no.. they donโt. they eat 3 meals PLUS 4 snacks the size of meals, a handful of cereal, maybe a single grape, a bite of a cookie, a carrot or 3, a piece of chocolate, maybe 2 sips of a coke, and the lick of a whole spatula
those 'recovery' tiktok trends should be called 'guys look at me at my lowest weight guys look how skinny i got guys look at how much weight i lost and how i did it and how little of time i did it guys look at how i skinny i am btw don't do this ๐ฅบ'
โiโm not hungry in the morning so i donโt eat breakfastโ i am absolutely ravenous in the morning. iโm in shambles, running around my kitchen trying to collect RESOURCES. i will tear up my oatmeal, eggs, toast, weetabix, cereal, fruit, pancakes โ whatever is available in seconds.
could never film a wieiad because the amount of random ass shit i eat is insane. maybe 2 chocolate chips, a ripped off piece of a muffin, a single chip, a handful of nuts, half of the batter for muffins, 5 spoonfuls of pb, maybe the leftovers of someoneโs dinner?? god only knows
you do not need to do pilates. you do not need to go on โhot girl walksโ. you do not need to go to the gym. you do not to eat protein bars, or protein variations of food. you do not need to eat clean. you need to rest and take care of your body. be gentle with yourself.
I love recovery because wdym I just ate a full dinner at a restaurant AND had dessert and truly.. DONT GAF ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
โat my ugw iโll ____โ no, you wonโt. studying for hours? dream school? food will be on your mind 24/7 โ thereโs no room for school. wearing cute clothes? your body will be freezing cold all the time. cute photos? you wonโt even want to look at your body. your ugw isnโt real.
wearing cropped tops and short sleeves when i was anorexic: ๐จ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐโน๏ธโน๏ธโน๏ธ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ข
wearing cropped tops and short sleeves when iโve gained weight: ๐๐๐๐๐๐โบ๏ธโบ๏ธ๐๐๐โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
scariest thing about having an ed is not knowing how much INTERNAL damage is happening until itโs too late. i only figured out how bad my digestive issues are when i started recovering. Itโs terrifying to think about how bad it COULDโVE been if i didnโt start recovery!
โFall is for relapsingโ WRONG! Fall is for pumpkin spice drinks, baking cookies, comfy sweaters, eating candy, horror movies, and enjoying LIFE!! ๐๐ช๐ฅง๐๐งธ๐๐งบโ๏ธ๐ฆ๐๏ธ๐โโฌ๐งก
you can take away my scale.
you can take away my food scale.
you can take away baby utensils.
you can take away myfitnesspal.
but you CANNOT take away my BABY PLATES AND BOWLS!!!๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
recov insta influencers after posting before and after pics, describing their disordered habits, talking about specific numbers in the caption, and going in depth about how they lost weight but finishing it off with โDonโt do what i did โค๏ธ๐ฅบโ
somethjng is so wrong with me because any tiny eating sounds, coughing, etc. makes me absolutely infuriated. iโm trying to eat lunch w my family and the chewing, burping, crunching, swallowing, literally has my face turning red from the anger like what the hell
your body is not supposed to be the smallest, skinniest or weakest it can be. itโs supposed to be the healthiest, happiest and best it can be. you owe it to yourself and body to recover. please treat your body kindly.
do anybody elseโs fear foods depend on the situation?? ๐ญ peanut butter on toast?? no problem! peanut butter in a meal?? of course!! random spoonful of peanut butter in a snack?? NO!! โdonut for dessert?? of course!! random donut in the middle of the day?? NEVERRRโโโผ๏ธโผ๏ธ
anorexia is truly an evil illness that is so overlooked and ignored. it is the deadliest mental illness. 1 in 5 people die from it. you are not the exception, nothing about you is different. you are at risk of being the 1 in 5 who WILL die from it. recovery is saving your life.
somehow with an ed, your days are all just blending in, while simultaneously going by incredibly slow. everyone is moving on with life, while youโre stuck in the same spot.
please. please just eat normal tiramisu. you do not need to dip a rice cake in coffee and put 0% fat greek yogurt on top. i promise, you will be OKAY ๐ญ
is it disordered to aspire to be like people who forget to eat? i donโt mean it in a disordered way.. i mean it in a way thatโs like โiโm so content with food i donโt think about it 24/7 and i just eat when iโm hungry and can eat whenever idc food just foodโโฆ
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top two is what the student said.. bottom two is what she said. why the hell would you tell a SECOND GRADER to look at the cals on their chips after they said they wouldnโt eat 120 calories. why not educate them, ur job as a damn teacher, on why calories are GOOD for you!?