EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS WEEK

Time for a slightly different post...as you may see my feed is full of posts promoting self-love, self-care and loving your body. This is a result of the lack of self-love I had for myself...but since it's eating disorders awareness week I thought I would share a little bit about me... This photo was taken at Christmas 2011...I was 21...I was anorexic An eating disorder isn't about being skinny, or looking a certain way. It isn't about caring too much about your image or being shallow. For me it was a need to control, a way of creating some certainty in my life. I became addicted to controlling my weight and my food intake, it made me feel safe at a time when it felt like my world was falling apart. But how do you define an eating disorder? It isn't about being really skinny, or being over weight. People with eating disorders can look normal and healthy on the outside, it's what is going on, on the inside. An eating disorder is your relationship with food and your behaviour around eating. Eating disorders are different for everyone, no one decides to develop a dysfunctional relationship with food, it often develops over a period of time. It is the symptom of something that runs deeper, that hurts too much if we acknowledge it...so we suppress it through It is something you can recover from, I have and still am. I don't regret it because it has shaped me into the person I am today and I am so grateful to my body for healing and being so forgiving. It has taught me that my body doesn't define me.