A relationship can help move you towards recovery

[Lessly]

Hello. I had an eating disorder in college, which I have now successfully recovered from. I read a lot of things on this forum, but not too many give suggestions for recovery. I came across a wonderful and simple article that perhaps has the best advice I've read in a long time: (I had to put spaces around the periods, so just copy the link, paste it, and erase the periods.)
www . divinecaroline . com/article/22184/24656/?CMP=KNC-DC_YSM_6

Share your suggestions if you can.

[Nina Kay]

Hi Lessly,
I just want to Welcome you to the Eating Disorders Forum here at SR. I hope that you'll keep coming back. There'll be others to come along and share with you. (((((((Welcome Hugs))))))))))

[Neagrm]

Hi, Lessly. I'd be interested in hearing more about your recovery and am happy for you. How did you begin your journey to recovery? I'm making progress and finding great support in Al-Anon.

Nea

[Lessly]

In response to your inquiry about my recovery:

Thanks for asking. Well, it started immediately when I got to college. I was insecure and wanted to fit in with the girls on my dorm floor. It just so happened that they were all obsessed with eating as little as possible, and there was one who was expert anorexic. She took me to our cafeteria and we walked around. She showed me all the things I could eat to and still be anorexic. LIke, everything-free chips, cucumbers and sometimes taboli salad. Definitely lots of Diet soda. It was terrible. It would have gone on and on, but that summer I went to a outdoors summer camp to be a counselor. When I was younger I had attended camp there--it was a mountain climbing, hiking, horseback riding kind of place. I'll never forget how isolated I was there the first couple of weeks. I would go and sit down in the mess hall with the other counselors and they would pass along the fried chicken and bisquits and lemonade and whatever else we were eating, and I would hardly take any! They all started to notice and give me crap at the table. Finally, it was their peer pressure and their example that showed me I had a problem. That what I was doing was NOT NORMAL. It was just the weird habits of some small group of girls that were far away from me now. Needless to say, when I returned to college for my sophmore year, I made other friends.