My 101 in 1001

I thought that this was a fantastic idea as I believe the best way to actually get things done is to write them down and set yourself a time frame to complete them in. I got the idea to do this from Izzy's blog and have decided that I will also add the list to my pages so that I can cross the things off as I do them and show you my progress.

1. Travel outside the country for the first time
2. Make a full recovery from anorexia
3. Meet Anna, a girl I started talking to through my blog who also lives in Tasmania
4. Do a fun run for a charity
5. Eat pannacotta
6. Make some new friends
7. Find myself a boyfriend
8. Reach 100 000 page views on my blog
9. Publish 1000  blog posts
10. Help someone  make a full recover from anorexia
11. Stop counting calories all together
12. Learn how to listen to my body and eat intuitively
13. Reach my bodies natural set point weight
14. Eat food from 5 different fast food Places
15. Go to the Taylor Swift concert in Melbourne with My dad and Amy
17. Drive in the city of Hobart
18. Learn to love my body the way it is supposed to naturally be
19. Raise money/awareness for eating disorders
20. Explore some more of Tasmania
21. Go on a week long camping trip
22. Eat a chicken Parmiagana meal at a pub
23. Fully complete a crossword without usng the internet to cheat
24. Develop a good relationship with my mum
25. Try to find way to show Dad and Amy how much they mean to me
26. Get a horse
28. Help my mum to get better
29. To get my hair back to being naturally curly, like it was before I got sick
30. Read 10 books
31. Get healthy and clear skin
32. Eat a delicious dessert at a restaurant without feeling guilty or anxious
33. Go to a gold class cinema
34. Go surfing
35. Sleep under the stars
36. Sleep in until after 12
37. Paint Tess's dog kennel pink
38. Climb a mountain
39. Have a ski lesson in the snow
40. Get contact lenses
41. Meet a famous person
42. Overcome my anxiety so that I do not need to take anxiety medication
43. Try Ben and Jerrys icecream
44. Eat a krispy Kreme donut
45. Find a brand new hobby
46. Eat a big slice of my nans home made christmas pudding
47. Feel comfortable in a bikini
48. Go snorkeling on a reef
49. Eat popcorn at the movies
50. Make a snowman
51. Do a huge jigsaw and frame it for my wall
52. Cook and eat every recipe that I wrote down in my 'favourite recipes' book
53. Spend some more time on our farm with my dad
54. Keep improving my blog, as I learn more and more about effective blogging
55. Send a parcel of Australian goodies to a reader in another country
56. Get more involved in my local community
57. Buy some presents and place them under the giving tree this christmas
58. Always be there for Amy throughout her teenage years for support
59. Develop a closer relationship with my brothers
60. Make more of an effort to visit the nan who I do not see very often
61. Watch 5 north Melbourne football games live with my dad
62. To actually go swimming when I take my sister to the beach/river in summer
63. Eat a cooked breakfast in a cafe
64. Eat real pizza from a Pizza restaurant
65. To comfortably have drinks with calories in them, just because I am thirsty
66. To make a christmas Gingerbread house
67. To stay out with friends so late that we watch the sun rise
68. Get fit
69. complete my traineeship at the bank (but keep working there)
70. Take Amy on a special weekend away
71. Grow my own Strawberries
72. Make homemade jam
73. Not weigh myself for 2 months
74. Go ice skating
75. Eat only unprocessed foods for 1 week straight
76. See fireworks on New Years
77. Do the mud run
78. Become an organ donor
79. Go for 1 week without watching tv
80. Stop picking at imperfections on my skin so that I stop scarring
81. To sleep on a boat/ship
82. To not feel any guilt, after being unable to exercise all day
83. To be able to accept a compliment from another person
84. Try every type of magnum icecream available
85. Eat two courses at a resaurant without feeling anxious
86. To eat less tinned/ packaged foods and to start making them myself from scratch
87. See dolphins/whales in the wild
88. Find a brand new form of exercise that I enjoy
89. Spend less time inside and more time outside (especially in summer)
90. Make it through a whole summer without getting sunburnt
91. See something that makes me believe in magic
92. Run 10 kilometers along a beach
93. Make 10 new friends in one day
94. Get a tattoo that symbolises my recovery
95. Eat pancakes with icecream for breakfast
96. Eat icecream from the tub with a good friend
97. Laugh so hard that I cry (I did this all the time once, but I havent for a long time )
98. Maintain my weight/not lose weight for 1 year
99. Do a colour run
100. Donate blood

101. To be proud of what I manage to achieve and who I am 

My recovery plans

To make any of your goals or dreams come true, I am a firm believer that you need to have a a proper plan in place and this is the same for your recovery goals too. In my experience, just wanting to get better is not enough, you actually need to have a detailed action plan in place so avoid anxiety getting the better of you and causing you to procrastinate in your recovery.

I have already come a long weigh in my recovery and I feel like this is only du to me having a plan of how I would actually recover. This has allowed me to increase my calories to proper recovery amounts and continue to increase them as I have needed to, each time I have failed to gain weight between two consecutive weigh ins. By following my plan I have also stopped counting calories as accurately so I no longer weigh everything I eat. I have challenged myself on various occasions to eat fear foods or to eat foods prepared by others with an unknown number of calories in them, which has also allowed me to get closer to by goal of becoming recovered. 

This is my recovery plan for the future, that will hopefully get me to being fully recovered. I hope to be onto the last couple of steps by the end of this year and to feel fully recovered sometime next year.

-Keep eating my current meal plan (unless I need to increase it again of course) until I am weight restored

-Possibly take out a couple of extras in my meal plan but not very much to begin with perhaps just 100 calories here and there (I wont take out any unless I continue to gain weight)

-Stop restricting my exercise (may start running) as I would like to start doing 5km fun runs for charities (while keeping an eye on my weight to make sure I dont lose any weight)

-maintain my weight using a meal plan for a month or two

-Start trying to teach myself how to eat intuitively (I may just start eating  intuitively for one meal per day, while sticking to my meal plan for my other meals To begin with)

-Learn to trust my hunger cues more and more, so eventually I can eat all of my meals intuitively whilst still maintaining a healthy weight

-If I ever feel like a particular food I will eat it and I will continue to eat 'scary foods' after I am weight restored as I enjoy them (and therefore believe they are good for me ;) )

-Work on learning to love my body, the way it is naturally supposed to be and not have any worries about weight, calories, or what I SHOULD or NEED to eat