100 Reasons To Recover From An Eating Disorder

I know how hard it can be to find the motivation to recover from an eating disorder or stay motivated while in eating disorder recovery. Recovering from your eating disorder is tough, and sometimes you can forget why you deserve to keep pushing. This is for those days, a list full of worthwhile reasons to recover from an eating disorder.

100 Reasons To Recover From An Eating Disorder

1. You’ll actually have time to be a person outside of your disorder
2. Stop hurting people you love
3. Live your life, not just merely survive
4. To stay alive, if you’re not recovering you are dying
5. To brag about recovering from your eating disorder
6. To have a good sex life
7. To have kids
8. So your kids won’t develop one themselves, kids to parents with eating disorders are a lot more likely to develop their own eating disorder
9. So you can truly enjoy the taste of food
10. Going out to eat with your friends without guilt or shame
11. Recover from your eating disorder so you’ll be able to maintain and enjoy meaningful relationships.
12. So you can focus on work/studies without zoning out
13. So you can engage in conversations with friends and family without losing concentration and experiencing anxiety and dissociation
14. So a scale or a meal won’t dictate your mood
15. To have clear, bright skin
16. To have the mental capacity to pursue goals, ambitions, and dreams
17. To discover who you are outside of your disorder
18. So you can feel awake, alive, and energized, not dread waking up in the morning and constantly feeling exhausted.
19. To sleep throughout the night peacefully without food-related nightmares
20. To have thick, strong, shiny hair
21. So you can enjoy a night out with friends without worrying about calories
22. Popcorn at the movie theater
23. Because constipation/ diarrhea suck
24. To not have to worry about future long-term health issues
25. To achieve real happiness
26. To experience and appreciate what life has to offer at its fullest, without dull senses or brain fog
27. So you won’t have to miss out on any more opportunities because of food
28. So you can feel confident and beautiful even when your weight fluctuates or your body changes
29. So your face will stop being swollen and puffy
30. Because no one will care about your weight at your funeral
31. So you can stop waiting to feel “sick enough”(it won’t happen)
32. To be able to think about interesting and exciting things instead of constantly being consumed by disordered thoughts
33. To wear things you like without worrying about your body shape/size
34. To rebuild trust with your loved ones
35. Because you’ll grow stronger in your recovery journey
36. So that you think of something other than the scale when you wake up in the morning
37. To stop losing relationships and passions to your eating disorder
38. So you don’t feel nervous and judge yourself every time a picture is taken
39. Because having your teeth decay from acid is nasty
40. So you won’t waste valuable time in eating disorder treatment centers
41. So your breath won’t smell horrible
42. So you won’t feel dizzy and weak after basic tasks
43. To be able to work out and enjoy the process without worrying about calories
44. To be able to see your reflection without criticizing yourself
45. To regain your own trust and prove to yourself that you can make a full recovery
46. To be able to enjoy all the delicious holiday foods
47. Because residential treatment is draining
48. Because feeling cold in a warm room is not something to be proud of
49. So you can achieve something more significant than a goal weight that will never be good enough
50. So when you look back in 10 years you won’t feel as though you wasted your life
51. A pint of ben&jerrys cookie dough flavored ice cream.
52. So you won’t be a negative influence on your siblings or your friends
53. So you can smile, without forcing it
54. Because keeping up with binge eating disorder is really expensive
55. So you’ll stop comparing yourself to everybody else
56. To have an identity outside of your disorder, and people will see you as more than your illness
57. Because the younger version of yourself deserves the amazing future they imagined for themselves
58. So you can have a healthy and happy romantic relationship that does not revolve around your disorder
59. So food\calories\weight won’t be an unnecessary source of fear
60. Because feeling alone and isolated in your illness sucks
61. Recover from your eating disorder so others won’t get mad at you for your illness
62. Because if you don’t recover now you’ll have to do it later and the more you wait the harder the recovery process
63. Because a healthy body is sexy
64. Because meal plans take all of the fun out of eating
65. To stop feeling like a burden on others
66. To be able to believe others when receiving a compliment
67. So you’ll be able to recall memories instead of them being fuzzy and faint because of your eating disorder
68. Because things won’t get better for you if you don’t recover
69. So when you do die you’ll leave more behind than becoming another statistic
70. To be able to watch tv or have a conversation without getting triggered
71. Because your weight is the least interesting thing about you
72. Going out to eat without stressing about the menu beforehand
73. Because eating disorder behaviors in public are embarrassing
74. Not having to worry about others hearing you purge
75. Satisfying your cravings
76. Never again experiencing the humiliating feeling of your own vomit splashing on your face
77. Having something to be proud of that isn’t how badly your head hurts or how dizzy you are
78. Because low-calorie substitutes and food options are horrendous
79. Because nobody actually enjoys coke-zero
80. So you can stop lying to yourself that zucchini pasta is anywhere near the taste of the actual thing
81. So food will be a part of life and not the other way around
82. So you can order something that sounds delicious off of the menu at a restaurant
83. So you can stop hiding food and feeling embarrassment and shame
84. To have feelings and not constantly feel numb
85. So you can have fun buying new clothes instead of shopping feeling like a punishment
86. To be able to go to the grocery store without strolling pointlessly for hours
87. To fall asleep without tears in your eyes
88. Recover from your ED for 3 AM fast food runs with friends
89. Because other people finding body checks on your phone is extremely embarrassing
90. Because life while struggling with an eating disorder is so boring
91. Because you become so boring when you are consumed with your disorder
92. So you’ll never have to look up any more cringy eating disorder recovery motivation ideas
93. Because pooping your pants in public is nothing to glamorize
94. To be able to travel the world and try new cuisines
95. To be able to cook and bake and actually taste the stuff you create
96. To be interesting enough to get a compliment on something other than your looks
97. To be able to support loved ones through their own struggles instead of being concerned with your disorder
98. To be excited about trying new food
99. So you can get a cool ed recovery tattoo
100. To create your own reasons to recover from an eating disorder to add to this list

Let me know in the comments below what reason to recover from an eating disorder you think I missed…     

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