Day 17: Your favourite blogs

The four blogs I have in my reading list are....

A life without Anorexia

My Cocoa stained Apron

Life with Anorexia

How Nutella saved my life

I find reading other peoples recovery blogs just as helpgul as actually blogging myself so thank you so much to the authors of these blogs, you really have helped me to recover. I would really like to start following some other blogs that may or may not be about eating disorders/recovey so please feel free to share the link to your own blog or to share some blogs that you enjoy reading below. x

day 29: What are some of your favourite recovery blogs or sites.

Recovery Blogs I follow (that are in my blogger reading list)

A life without anorexia

Free of an eating disorder

Holly Alyssas recovery from Anorexia

How nutella saved my life

Ice cream can save your life

Izzys journey

Life with Anorexia

My cocoa stained Apron

Websites I find helpful

Your Eatopia

Butterfly Foundation

ED Bites (on facebook)

Lets recover

please feel free to comment your own blog below if I dont already follow it, so I can check it out :)

Guest Post

As you will be able to see from this guest post, Anna is an incredibely strong and amazing person who I have started talking too since she found my blog a little while ago. Anna and I have had similar experiences of anorexia and are also both at similar stages in our recoveries. We therefore relate very well to one another and have been able to help one another through our recoveries a lot. We both have the same types of dreams for the future and I feel truly fortunate to be recovering alongside such a wonderful person. Anna has started her own blog in the last few days so it would be great if you could check it out. Please click on the following link and show Anna some encouragement and support. http://icecreamyourlife.blogspot.com.au.


My blog is called 'Ice cream can save your life', because, for me the day I choice to eat ice cream again really did save me from the deep and dark hole of Anorexia. My name is Anna and I’ve been battling with Anorexia since I was 18. I am now 24 and although the battle has been a long and tiring one, I finally believe that I am on my way to full recovery. My experience has been rather intense at times. I’ve battled my way through a uni degree, despite not being always well enough. I’ve spent six weeks in hospital on a nasal-gastic tube and being confined to a wheel-chair. I’ve had to cope with my mum being diagnosed with breast cancer and looking after her during her treatment, cope with my sister moving away to another city and cope with the recent death of my grandpa, all of which have made my recovery journey a rather bumpy ride. But now, here I am fighting every day. Eating a full proper meal plan,   ignoring the destructive thought in my head and moving away from Anorexia once and for all. Like Karly I also live in Tasmania, Australia. I have to thank Karly a thousand times for her inspiring and motivational blog, for her support and help, and unfailing optimism. She has really helped me to feel less alone along the recovery path. My blog is about all things recovery. It is about positivity, motivation and hope. it is about finding the good things in life and about understanding the difficult times. I truly believe that these hard times will makes us stronger in the end. All we have to do is keep fighting <3 

Waking up feeling positive and motivated

I have woken up this morning still feeling really confident about the changes I have decided to make which is excellent! I know that I will find it most challenging to stick to these changes once I start seeing a difference in my body and start gaining significant amounts of weight but I am determined to do it. I really do want to be strong and healthy and I know I will eventually be able to feel comfortable in my new body. I have decided that to avoid any unnecessary anxiety I am going to stop weighing myself most days and start weighing myself once weekly instead. I have decided that since I made my big change yesterday, Wednesday will be my new weigh in day. To be honest I would rather not weigh myself at all but this is the only way I can be sure I am gaining the required weight. I would be happy with gaining between half 0.5kg and 1kg per week but will try not to freak out if I happen to gain more then this initially. I know that my metabolism will adjust and the weight gain will eventually even out.

I really do feel as though My blogging has helped me so much in my recovery. Writing my own blog has given me a chance to express what I have had to bottle up inside for so many years and in a way it is helping me to let go of my anorexia. Reading other peoples blogs has also helped me enormously. I feel as though this little support network I am a part of is so amazing and I really appreaciate the fact that I always have someone willing and able to offer fantastic advice when I need it most.

Specifically, I want to thank bloggers like Izzy from http://www.lifewithoutanorexia.com and Olivia from http://freeofaneatingdisorder.blogspot.com.au as you have been my true inspiration for recovering. I haven't always been convinced that it was possible to fully recover from an eating disorder but thanks to you, I know that it is possible. You have given me hope and shown me what life can be like without anorexia or once you are free from your eating disorder. I also want to thank Emmy from http://ganache-elf.blogspot.com.au and Ange from http://nutellarella.blogspot.com.au. You guys are so brave and strong and give me the extra motivation I need to make progress and move forward in my recovery. You make me feel so much stronger as I no longer feel as though I am fighting anorexia alone. I know that I have you gorgeous girls beside me for understanding, encouragement and support.

I am looking forward to my day shopping with my mum today and I am going to make sure I buy myself something really nice as I really am proud of myself for all of the progress I have been able to make in the last few weeks. I would like to buy a nice outfit as I have hadly any nice items of clothing and would also love to pick out a new television series (do you have an suggestions?).


While recovering, don't forget to recognise when you have made progress and reward yourself.  Not only do you deserve it, but this will help you to start appreciating yourself and respecting yourself for who you are, which really is essential in order for you to recover from your eating disorder.