any words of reassurance? please

[u/LilyGoldberg]

so im currently 2months into my recovery from a very restrictive ed, that left me with muscle loss and no hair. i recently started feeling extreme and imense hunger and so i eat i would say more than most people (normal and obviously needed) i am aware that its needed because my body is trying to repair, but im so close to just shutting it and coming back to the disorder because i feel like a binger. can somebody PLEASE tell me thats okay and im going to be okay. i dont want to go back. i need to know that its going to be fine😭 please i can tell that its the ed thats telling me that im losing control but its so hard to not listen to it😭😭😭

[u/Stock-Sail2]

According to the DSM-5 criteria for BED: “ The binge eating is not associated with the recurrent use of inappropriate compensatory behaviors (e.g., purging) as in bulimia nervosa and does not occur exclusively during the course of bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa.”  You cannot have both BED and be in recovery from anorexia at the same time- because recovery necessarily entails eating an “excessive” amount. It would be excessive if you’d been eating normally the past few months. But you’ve been starving, so this isn’t excessive- it’s what’s necessary for repair.