Eating Disorder Awareness Week

2015

Flashbackkkk 👋🏼 to the summer right before I started lifting. I was obsessed with being as skinny as possible, as I had been in since high school. I struggled with disordered thinking regarding food and weight beginning in Junior high. I was still holding onto alot of baby weight, and all my friends were “skinny and pretty". I thought of myself as ugly, frumpy, and fat. And I truly believed that about myself all the way through high school and into college. I'd go through phases of starving myself, then binging and purging, it was miserable cycle.

Then my sophomore year of college I first tried lifting weights. I almost instantly fell in love 😍 I finally rewired my brain to focusing on how strong my body was, instead of how chunky I was.

YES. I still have hard days. It is not all sunshine and rainbows, but nothing about recovery is. It's all about progress y'all. And I'm proud today to share that I haven't starved, binged, or purged in almost 3 years. If you are still learning how to become healthy despite struggling with disordered thinking, remember that YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Shed light on your story, and remember that your

health is more important than any number on the scale 💕

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TODAY