17 Eating Disorder Recovery Tips You Can Use Right Now

Here are some of my favorite eating disorder recovery tips that I have found useful. They are all simple and can be implemented immediately.

Eating Disorder Recovery tips:

1. Take the focus off food
2. You will always be taken care of, there is enough food
3. Don’t read online diets or food journals
4. Visualize your ideal recovery
5. Journal each day about what is really going on
6. Take time to do a daily meditation to calm yourself
7. Spend time with people
8. Eat out with people
9. Try to be around people who have a healthy relationship with food and their weight
10. Learn to recognize disordered eating thoughts. Don’t identify with them. It is the disorder, it is not you
11. Learn to pick up the phone and reach out to people
12. Don’t isolate
13. Read pro recovery books that are not diet or food related
14. Remove clutter from your home and life
15. Do one kind and self loving thing for yourself each day
16. Treat yourself like a child when it comes to meal times. Find out what you are truly hungry for, just like you would with a child
17. Avoid people that have disordered eating thoughts and attitudes. Notice what triggers you.

Do you have any other eating disorder recovery tips that you would like to add to the list? What works for you?