Bulimia Recovery Quotes

“Eating disorder recovery becomes possible when you keep making the next right decision over and over. With time, these decisions become automatic.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Eating disorders are insidious and subtly manipulative. The behaviors that initially feel like relief are the same ones that will eventually ruin you.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Sometimes when you are feeling lonely, desperate and submerged, you think you're drowning, but you can actually begin to grow water wings, because now is your time to learn to swim.”
― Kate Hudson-Hall, Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging

“Now is the time to save the life you are entitled to live”
― Kate Hudson-Hall, Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging

“You get what you focus on so change your focus.”
― Kate Hudson-Hall, Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging

“Emma cites the structure of the [Eating Disorder] Unit as being important to her decision to disengage from her illness, and the fact that she felt safe in it, and cared for.
'It was the first time I'd been in an environment where I felt comfortabe with all the people around me. I felt "I can be here and I can talk to anybody" and that was something that had been missing from my life'.”
― Carol Lee, To Die For

“Your ideal weight is a collection of experiences, feelings, ambitions, and mental processes. It's a space that is fluid, ever-changing, and abstract. There is no numerical relation to what is best. Instead, you must live your life free from numerical restraints. An ideal weight is not one you can predict, choose, or write down as a digit. Rather, it's a place you reach by thinking very little about your body at all. You reach it without realizing it, You reach it without micromanaging it, You reach it without judgement. And you reach it seemingly by accident while living your life to its fullest every day.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Today is your new future, yesterday is in your past.”
― Kate Hudson-Hall, Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging

“Još nešto. Mene je uvijek zanimalo koliko, kad, što i kako jesti jednom kad odlučim jesti. Bez popratnih rigotina i pizdarija. I uvijek me nerviralo to što svi govore kako to nekako ide samo po sebi. Sam odlučuješ koliko i kad i slična sranja. Nažalost, narode, moram se prikloniti nervirajućima. Stvarno nema univerzalnog recepta. Mogu vam jedino reći kako ja izlazim na kraj s hranom. Nastojim jesti tri puta dnevno i to u razmacima od najviše četiri sata između glavnih obroka. Nekad večeram štapiće. Nekad nešto što se može nazvati obrokom. Uvijek nastojim pojesti barem dva normalna obroka dnevno. Slatko ne jedem. Zato što ga baš i ne volim, a vjerojatno i zato što je slatko potencijalni triger. Za mene. Što ne znači da će biti i nekome od vas. I često jedem banane kao međuobrok. Nisam si baš dobra s voćem. Više sam povrće tip. I neću vam srat kako svaki dan jedem prženo i pohano, jer ne jedem. To isto tako ne znači da postim ko Tibetanac. Jedem što normalnije. Gledam druge "normalne" ljude i oponašam ih. Nije lako, ali je sve lakše. I sve manje pazim što više stasavam ka potpunom ozdravljenju. Ionako, narode, znamo da problem nije u hrani.”
― Jasna Šurina, Polupani lončići

“Vomiting may consciously be a behavior to keep the weight down, but unconsciously bulimics resort to vomiting as a way to cleanse themselves of the shameful amount of food they just devoured. By vomiting one literally bathes in shame.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

“I certainly couldn't admit that I swallowed laxatives like candy, just to feel something move inside me, feeling control slip through my fingers with every dose.”
― Diana Kouprina, Borderline: A Poetic Memoir