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But I ONLY want sweet foods // ED Recovery 

Emily Spence
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In this video I share my personal experience with predominantly craving/wanting sweet foods in recovery and discuss what I have learnt about why this happens and how to navigate it.
Please note: everyone's recovery journey is unique and it may be that the points I make in this video are not accessible and/or relevant to you so please, as always, take what helps and leave the rest.
Website: www.isr-recovery.com
Instagram: @emilyspence__
Podcast: Unrestricted

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7 фев 2024

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Комментарии : 36   
@helenthomas3101
@helenthomas3101 2 дня назад
Thank you soo much! I have been exactly like this! The guilt of not having a normal diet that I should b having has been awful. At least I know that I can do what needs to be done. ❤
@walkwithkesh
@walkwithkesh 10 дней назад
Theres really notbing else in life than going througj recovery, truely a transformative procees in so many ways 😊😊😊
@giancarlo_rc
@giancarlo_rc 7 дней назад
Thank you so much for all the time, devotion and honestly just kindness in the messages of support you're giving to all of us. I've always honestly been quite a lot into running and sports in general but it got to a point where it kind of snowballed into an eating disorder. Ever since the pandemic hit and my weight hit an all-time low I've been kind of postponing recovery, not so much for the fear of particular foods anymore, but more because of the ultimate seek for the unachievable "perfectionism" as you mentioned, in my case with calorie counting, that actually ended-up backfiring. In the last few weeks I finally decided to be kind of honest to myself about my endless postponing of weight restoration and stopped using my food scale for the first time in like 4 years and instead focused on wanting to hear my body. As (now) expected 😂, I began craving HUGE amounts of food, specially because I still love the fact I now actually have the energy to run, I ate way more than the typical extreme hunger-affected individual, 99.99% sweets except for water perhaps 😄. I began becoming incredible scared I was literally going to eat myself to death or something, specially because I saw others' professional advice of recovery super-exact and sometimes restrictive meal plans, but your videos have been incredibly motivating not only on not giving up on recovery, but also just in general getting rid of all the focus on the stereotypical "happy living" that comes from being "ultra-slim" and all the "fitness culture" rather than focusing on happiness and the love that comes from accepting our humanity. Thanks to the fact my weight wasn't in such a huge deficit as potentially from many other people's where I began, I genuinely feel like it mostly was more in the psychology of restriction and missing hunger cues that I quickly started feeling less hungry again everytime, specially for foods I had labeled as "bad" in my head all my life. Anyways, I'm sorry for my essay of a comment 😂, but seriously thank you so much for sharing your story and keep up with your incredible vids, just know you keep helping people out and truly changing lives :) 💙
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 3 дня назад
Thank YOU for sharing as you have here and you should be incredibly proud of yourself for your commitment and determination to make change. I’m super grateful to be able to share my experience to support others and thank you also for your support of me and my channel- it really means so much to me :)
@louise00776
@louise00776 4 месяца назад
Thank you Emily ! Thanks to your experience and advices, I just got my period back after 7 months in recovery and 18 months of HA ! I could'n't be more happy ! I can feel like a woman again now . Losing my period was the first warning of my body in the beginning of my ED. I believe that having them back is the meaning that the renovation part is almost done :) I noticed that my recovery was separated in stages. I think now after recovering of HA, I made an other step toward the end of it ! But honestly even if I have victories, it's still hard to see my body in the mirror somedays. Hard to always have a belly like a balloon. But I hope it's almost finished. No more mentale hunger but still huge physical hunger cues. I am still very hungry but I don't know what to eat. Some foods begin to be disgusting if I eat them. Now, I am trying to focus of to get back on track in a healthy body. I will see later to start moving my body again. I am a huge fan of lifting and long walks in the mountains and the forest. Big thank-you to you !
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 3 месяца назад
So pleased for you Louise: this is a brilliant sign that you are on the right path and I encourage you to gather this up as proof that you can absolutely trust your brilliant body. Keep pushing onwards and upwards, adding to the wins and continuity to eject the ED from every corner of your life. Give your body the space and time to fully heal and know that the mountains and forests and weights will be waiting for you all in their own good time
@maike5227
@maike5227 4 месяца назад
Thank you so much! I needed this desperately!
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 4 месяца назад
Happy to help :)
@therevoltingpleb
@therevoltingpleb 2 месяца назад
Your videos have been helping me tremendously. I am on medical leave and have two months to gain as much of my weight back as possible. I am doing it on my own. I did it once before from a more extreme point before a relapse, but I'm doing it without psychiatric medication or marijuana this time and am completely sober. My issue is more related to emetophobia, ARFID, orthorexia, trauma. Been underweight my whole life and got to a really scary point recently. Less the intentional restriction regarding body image, but I've fully embraced the general teachings for ED recovery and can no longer pretend it's not a problem or just give up and accept this body any longer and the way prolonged starvation has handicapped my life. I've teared up a lot watching your videos while eating because you're so encouraging. It's been the biggest help.
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 Месяц назад
Goodness, your words here have really moved me and I want you to know how proud you should be for your resilience and determination. Thank YOU for sharing so openly and honestly, and for your kind words of support for my sharing. Sending you all the very, very best x
@MissYinKS
@MissYinKS 4 месяца назад
thank you so so much for this! Such a good reassurance ❤
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 4 месяца назад
So pleased you found it helpful and thank YOU for your support x
@susan_e
@susan_e 4 месяца назад
Emily, your support is appreciated far beyond any words can adequately express! Lovely Roka wanting cuddles gave me a *strong* sense of her unconditional love and support, as well. 🐕🥰 THANK YOU, BOTH !
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 4 месяца назад
Thank you so much Susan, reading your comments always brings me such happiness and Roka is indeed a very VERY loving girly :) I am so pleased to know that you continue to find my sharing helpful and send you lots of love and strength x
@Gabrielle520
@Gabrielle520 4 месяца назад
Thank you for this video! I do worry sometimes that I will develop diabetes since I’m eating so much sugar now…
@nicoledelissen977
@nicoledelissen977 4 месяца назад
This was soooooo Sweet 😊❤
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 4 месяца назад
Haha! Thank you :)
@philipforan8309
@philipforan8309 4 месяца назад
Thanks again Emily for giving so much hope and for showing everyone that peace with a new living comes with determination and doing the opposite of an ed. I was just reaching out to ask if anyone has been hesitant about eating with unrestricted freedom even if my body is not the typical anorexia body and weight is just bordering underweight, yet the restricted eating coping behavior has been present for years (in my case 9 years at least)? Is it ok to allow myself that freedom that seems to apply to others? I lose hope that recovery advice applies to me. Thanks so much again, I appreciate so much everything you do.
@emmiedessureault8214
@emmiedessureault8214 4 месяца назад
If you are restricting, you deserve to recover. No matter your weight. You are underweight for your body. That's all that matter. And unrestricted eating is for the rest of your life. Take care
@philipforan8309
@philipforan8309 4 месяца назад
@@emmiedessureault8214 thanks so much for your help, I doubt the situation I am in sometimes
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 4 месяца назад
@@philipforan8309 Emmie is absolutely spot on here Philip. It is not only ok for you to allow yourself this freedom, it is absolutely crucial. Identify the ED in these thoughts and call it out: recovery is 1000% FOR YOU and its imperative that you don't wait for your ED to agree with this truth (because it's never going to). Be bold Philip and leave your ED in the smoke of your recovery action taking.
@philipforan8309
@philipforan8309 4 месяца назад
@@emilyspence2961 @emilyspence2961 thanks so much for your help and support Emily , you are an inspiration, I shall identify the Ed behaviours, and call them out, must allow myself the freedom that I see others undertake, I just trust that there is more to life than the Ed hellish view of life. Thanks again so much Emily for all the work you do and time you give👍😊
@user-fy2jx1je6l
@user-fy2jx1je6l 4 месяца назад
Thanks 4 the video. Did u just eat the cheesecakes etc that you craved or did u force normal meals (breakfast, lunch & dinner) in aswell?
@SabrinaBenaa
@SabrinaBenaa 4 месяца назад
im sure she ate the cheesecakes and normal meals to teach her brain that you should eat regularly even if you add in sweets (some days you add in sweets, some days you don't, some days you have multiple sweets)! and keep in mind - you can have the cheesecake multiple times in the day and anytime (day or night), not just a "one time allowance."
@user-fy2jx1je6l
@user-fy2jx1je6l 4 месяца назад
@@SabrinaBenaa thanks, but I find it hard to believe you can eat 3 substantial meals, at least 3 snacks and multiple whole cheesecakes, packets of biscuits and tubs of chocolate day in day out without becoming extremely overweight.
@SabrinaBenaa
@SabrinaBenaa 4 месяца назад
@@user-fy2jx1je6l well without being overweight.. i don't have an answer to that. but if extreme hunger is calling and asking for all of that, im sure there is a reason for it. maybe you are not at your set point weight and thats why your body is asking for all of that?
@user-fy2jx1je6l
@user-fy2jx1je6l 4 месяца назад
@@SabrinaBenaa I’m sure anyone who eats those amounts daily (unless extremely underweight before starting) will become overweight.
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 4 месяца назад
@@SabrinaBenaa Absolutely spot on Sabrina: thank you so much for sharing here
@RubyTyson-pf8ly
@RubyTyson-pf8ly 2 месяца назад
I’ve been honering my extreme hunger for 3 weeks but I’m terrified I’m on the verge of developing diabetes can someone help is it my ed speaking or is it a genuine fear because I have some symptoms
@katieturner1922
@katieturner1922 4 месяца назад
I think I have denied myself sweet things / pizza, chips etc I have conditioned myself not to crave them anymore. I now ONLY eat "meat" and veg and my trusty jacket potato everyday! Since 14th Jan I have had 1 day of need eating veg and I cannot remember when I didnt have fruit and I have yogurt every single day. I feel so lost, dont't know whar to do to recover. I KNOW i need to but so lost
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 4 месяца назад
I'm sorry you are feeling so lost at the moment Katie. One piece of advice I would like to share with you is that this is exactly the kind of situation where the need for mechanical action taking in recovery comes in. Often when the body has been denied of specific food types/items it is necessary to force their re-introduction against current cognitive/emotional resistance in order to show the brain that those things are now available and permitted. With repetition and consistency, this opens the door for the body to start to talk to you again about what it genuinely needs and wants. Hope this helps x
@Lifeonmarz8
@Lifeonmarz8 4 месяца назад
I actually crave both sweet and salty foods equally🫠😪and I can’t decide….
@emilyspence2961
@emilyspence2961 4 месяца назад
This is also a very normal place to be and the recovery approach is just the same: lean in and honour it, actioning your unconditional permission to eat without restriction! AKA You don't need to decide... you can have both! x
@Lifeonmarz8
@Lifeonmarz8 4 месяца назад
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