rationalist

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  • I agree it depends on the person. I maintain at 1200-1300, even exercising regularly, but start to lose weight if I eat 1400-1800 (also exercising). If I get less than 1200 though I start to gain weight.
  • Great post. I remember reading this when I first started thinking about recovery, and it explained sooo much about how odd I'd become, food-wise. It really shows how much of a self-perpetuating thing an ED can become, and how much of a trap it is to start restricting in the first place.
  • Reminding myself that I'm a human being too helps me a lot, weirdly. I like to think about it biologically, I guess - I mean that we're a part of the animal kingdom and pretty much programmed to eat and all that other fun stuff. Also thinking about how legitimately miserable I was when I was restricting and overexercising.…
  • Aw, I adored Jane Eyre! Charlotte Brontë became an instant favourite of mine with that book. Right now I'm reading book 2 of A Song of Ice and Fire (A Clash of Kings) by George R. R. Martin. Fantasy isn't my usual genre, but I loved the HBO series, so I read the first book this past summer. I had a ton of other things on…
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