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tbh i kind of forgot this blog existed at all. between full recovery and only occasionally using tumblr, it completely slipped my mind

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After a while you realize, “this isn’t what I want to keep going through” and you just stop. Know your worth.

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Diagnoses are made up but I do wish ARFID were better understood and recognized. ARFID is in a sense an eating disorder in its most basic form—avoidance and restriction of food. ARFID is not diagnosed often in adults bc clinicians think of eating disorders as inherently about fear of weight gain or obsession with weight loss. But eating disorders are not necessarily about that, and I think it naturalizes fatphobia to claim that they are. There is nothing inherently soothing about weighing less, but there IS something inherently soothing about eating less for folks who are predisposed to experience a powerful numbing effect from energy deficiency. In a violently fatphobic society like ours, there are many systems of reward and punishment based on weight status, and this profoundly affects higher weight ED sufferers especially. But eating disorders have long predated and existed outside diet culture and the society targeted by the DSM, and the one thing they have in common, the thing they are, is a life-threatening propensity on the part of people across the size spectrum to cope by avoiding and restricting food, with varying degrees of backlash from the body’s survival drive

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resilience is not sustainable we are not supposed to endure life we are supposed to live it

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when will people learn that their fatphobia and demonization of food directly helps enforce disordered eating? if you care about people with eating disorders you have to care about ending the hatred of fat people and the moralizing of food. end of story

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rye bacon pancakes with blueberries

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now that tags are visible in notifications, you guys have really really really gotta stop posting about your your self deprecating thoughts or about disordered eating/body image issues in the tags of other peoples posts.

that person who’s selfie you reblogged and tagged as #thinspo? they see that now. the recovery blog whos post you vented about your recent relapse graphically in the tags? they saw all of it, and were likely triggered by it. the person who made a positivity post that you tagged as “#haha i wanna kill myself but i’m sure it’s nice for you”?? they saw that!!

you cannot do this where it is being sent directly to peoples notifications. this was always triggering and unacceptable to do to others, but now there’s really no excuse. just make your own vent posts and don’t use other people as a springboard for your own self deprecation

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source: weheartit.com

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it wants your money, periodt.

your body is not a problem to be solved.

diet culture’s main goal is to cash in on self-hate.

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the scariest, most liberating thing is that it’s all up to you!

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my body is not an enemy i have to overcome;

my body loves me more deeply than anyone.

my body transforms breath and blood into life.

my body is devotion incarnate.

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Like not to sound preachy or whatever but food is more than just sustenance and fuel, it's an outlet for pleasure and joy. Whether you're eating with loved ones or alone food is meant to make you feel good and if you don't get pleasure and joy from it then something is wrong and it needs to be fixed. To say that you can't enjoy food or even that you can't enjoy some food because it's 'bad' is so backwards and ridiculous that I'm shocked that it's so deeply entranched in our culture. Food isn't inherently bad, or inherently good, it's a way to enjoy life and fuck diet culture for fucking all of us up so badly that we lost sight of that.

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i’ve been sad but that’s okay.

i’ve been frustrated but that’s okay.

i’ve been angry but that’s okay.

i’ve been feeling hurt but that’s okay.

i’ve been exhausted but that’s okay.

i’ve been feeling lost but that’s okay.

i’ve been crying but that’s okay.

can’t always avoid feelings and that’s okay.

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