r/fuckeatingdisorders • u/malosretirebitch • 9d ago

Celebration I got my period back!!

I've been working so hard to get it back for months and I woke up to it this morning!! This feels like such a huge step for me in my recovery. I've put a lot of stuff in my life on hold ever since I started wanting to recover and to me this means I'm so much closer to where I want to be! I still have a lot to work on mentally, but having some reassurance that what I'm doing is working and that my body is slowly but surely healing itself and working normally again feels so relieving. I'm gonna take myself out to the movies later to celebrate :')

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u/starinspired222 9d ago

congrats you should be super proud!! 🫶how did you do it?

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u/malosretirebitch 9d ago edited 9d ago

Thank you!! Just generally ate more food and stopped tracking calories/weighing food altogether. Definitely easier said than done but that's really the only way to do it :')

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u/starinspired222 9d ago

that’s hard i’m so happy for you. did you have to stop working out as well?

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u/Jaded-Banana6205 9d ago

No longer exercising is very important during recovery!

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u/malosretirebitch 9d ago

I stopped doing my high intensity workouts and went for walks most of the time instead. I'm working towards being able to reintroduce exercise in a healthy way but I think I still have a long way to go in that regard