It wasn't the best exercise in reducing exercise, because the work was pretty substantial and I know I pushed myself more than necessary. But I did break patterns (no workouts before breakfast or after dinner). And I broke tons of food "rules" and patterns. I am always amazed at how well my appetite regulates itself (according to activity level) when I actually give it a chance. I am hoping I can carry some of that intuitiveness over to "real life" now that I'm home. A real challenge will be keeping that up now that I am at my parent's house for the holidays and am not hiking for hours and hours every day.
I really cannot remember the last time I was so happy for so many days in a row as I have been for the last 10 days. I love love love my research and this new country that I have "discovered", and it is so nice to have something that blows the ED out of the water in terms of priorities.
I"ll update soon, but for those that won't be around much over the next few days, I hope everyone has a great Christmas, be safe in your travels and treat yourselves for the holiday, you deserve it!
9 comments:
I am so happy to read this, Cammy. I'm so happy for you. You deserve this happiness. You deserve to have something take a lead over the ED in terms of priorities!
Proud of you, and I'm glad it was a good trip!
Ooooh I'm soooo glad for you Cammy! Seriously. I know how NICE that feeling of working and things coming together is. I told my T the other day that really that is when I feel most "okay" with life... when I'm working and enjoying the work thoroughly and all of a sudden not everything else matters and I can laugh and enjoy life, its NICE.
Well done on the eating stuff and the exercise stuff! That is seriously awesome :).
Hope things over the holidays go well but no matter what happens, you DID manage breakthroughs while you were away, no one can take that away from you and it shows that you CAN do this recovery deal!
Congrats and merry christmas lovely! xoxo
Yay! So glad your home safe. And that you had so much fun and were able to do so much. I hope you hold on to that feeling for a long time!
Yay! I am so happy to hear the trip went well!
I really hope you can translate some of these lessons to life back home.
Yes Christmas is stressful, but I do hope you can have a very Merry one!
So glad to hear it went well! Way to go!
I'm so glad you had such a wonderful time! I think experiences like that really build positive momentum for me. Sometimes I need to get out of my bubble to realize I don't really HAVE to be in my bubble to feel "safe." Traveling is a good opportunity to go without some food/exercise rules and see the body do its thing.
Merry Christmas!
Yay! That's great to hear! I found the same thing happened with me when I spent my three and a half months studying abroad in India- I just stopped counting/stressing/caring because I was kept busy and my activity level anyways caused me to definitely feel the increase in hunger cues :). Now that I'm back, I'm doing the same as you- translating that to my everyday life!
You sound great in this post! I'm super glad you had a such a good experience there and were able to lessen the hold of the ED reins a bit. That's suc ha good accomplishment for you!
Hope you havea great holiday and continue the momentum of kicking ED ass!
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