At EF’s recommendation, I’m reading “8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience.”
One section outlines many effective healthy statements for my healthy self to tell my eating disorder self. These are the ones that resonated the most for me.
Effective Healthy Statements
This feeling seems intolerable, but it is just a feeling and it will fade.
There are no good foods or bad foods. No specific food can make me fat.
Restricting food will just set me up for bingeing later.
Full is not the same thing as fat.
Right now I cannot be the judge of my own body.
Other people I love and respect are recovered, so I can get there, too.
If I never learn to tolerate my natural body, I will never get well.
Any self-esteem I think I am gaining from my body is being cancelled out by what I am doing to myself to get it.
Tasting Freedom 