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Food and Feelings


⋅ 🚫When you have buried guilt or shame, it can be easier to externalize the feelings onto your food choices. By doing this, you create a way to then judge yourself as good or bad. Short term, this can provide a false sense of control with managing your difficult feelings.…
Posted on November 15, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder
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What is Normal Eating?


⋅ Normal eating is going to the table hungry and eating until you are satisfied. It is being able to choose food you like and eat it and truly get enough of it —not just stop eating because you think you should. Normal eating is being able to give some…
Posted on November 8, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder
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Food, Exercise & Recovery


⋅ 🏃‍♀️"Good morning! Would you like to grab something to eat?" "Ha! Definitely not. Sorry —it's just that I can't. I haven't exercised yet." This sounds rather silly when said out loud. However, this is the answer I'd rehearse in my head when exercise dictated my life. ⋅ Food is…
Posted on November 1, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder
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Ditch The Scale


⋅ 🐠Scales are worthless and yet I used to worship them religiously. I was insecure about my weight long before I developed an eating disorder. I vaguely remember having to get weighed while in middle school during P.E. My classmates formed a long line near the handball courts while we…
Posted on October 25, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder
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The Weight Of An Eating Disorder


⋅ 🌿I've struggled with most forms of an eating disorder over the span of a decade, and my weight has reflected this. Despite significant fluctuations in my size, not much else changed. My weight and appearance were only symptoms of the same internal problems. When it comes to eating disorders,…
Posted on October 18, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder
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How Recovery Happens


⋅ ✅You didn't develop an eating disorder overnight, and you surely won't recover from one instantaneously either. This sounds cliché, but if I'm honest with you, I struggled to take this to heart. I was angry that my eating disorder wouldn't just "go away." I didn't want to put the work…
Posted on October 11, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder
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Defining Recovery


⋅ 🦋There are many different levels to recovery.  Often, I thought I was recovered only to realize I had more layers to work through. Each time I made progress, I quietly rejoiced. I thought I had succeeded. I was done, healed and finished with this “recovery stuff.” But I wasn't.…
Posted on October 4, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder
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10 Phases of Eating Disorder Recovery


?10 PHASES OF RECOVERY ⋅ 1.) I don’t think I have a problem. ⋅ 2.) I might have a problem, but it’s not that bad. ⋅ 3.) I have a problem, but I don’t care. ⋅ 4.) I want to change, but I don’t know how and I’m scared.  ⋅…
Posted on September 20, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder
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Ideal Weight


Your ideal weight is a collection of experiences, feelings, ambitions, and mental processes. It's a space that is fluid, ever-changing, and abstract. There is no numerical relation to what is best. Instead, you must live your life free from numerical restraints. An ideal weight is not one you can predict,…
Posted on September 12, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder
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Skinny Lies


⋅ ?Losing weight was my life's purpose. I lived and breathed for the moments when I could see the numbers fall on the scale. It didn’t matter how I felt in the moment because I was promised increasing happiness in exchange for my decreasing size. I learned to celebrate the…
Posted on September 6, 2021 by brittanyburgunder by brittanyburgunder

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♥️You are more than a number ♥️You are more than a number
🏥Unfortunately, this is my current situation a 🏥Unfortunately, this is my current situation  and reality —another bowel obstruction. I don't talk a lot about my journey with CIPO, but it's still a challenge I have to navigate at times. There have been many ups, downs, twists, turns, questions and —although not always answers, I do always try to remain optimistic. Hopefully this will be a short hospital stay and I’ll be back on my feet soon. Until then I might be less active on here. This is definitely a bummer and I'll spare you the specifics, but I'm realizing it’s less about the details and more about how you deal with them. ~Britt💜
✨Our bodies are a constellation made up of uniqu ✨Our bodies are a constellation made up of unique attributes, emotions, and energy. The sum of ourselves encompasses our identity and personality. But what if you aren't happy with who you are? What if you hate how you identify with yourself? What if the mirror reflects the image of an individual that you're accustomed to despise? 

When we hold a negative self-image or feeling about ourselves, it can be tempting to look outwardly for solutions to change. Instant gratification is addicting, and tangible progress is intoxicating. Enter — the scale. It provides a false sense of control each time we step upon it to await our fate. And it’s only a matter of seconds before instant feedback is displayed. There is nothing wrong with the scale, but there is a lot that can go wrong with how we choose to interpret the information.

The scale is significantly limited and cryptic in the data it provides. In the words of Steve Maraboli "... the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That's it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love. Don't give the scale more power than it has earned." 

I was a slave to the scale, and I sacrificed my self-worth for the sake of being small. A complex world becomes much simpler if weight loss equates with good and weight gain is bad. But this would mean living a lie and believing deceit. Our worth is not something that can be weighed. It is part of the constellation that makes up our physical being.

And our physical being can be attributed to The Law of Conservation of Mass, which states: "The same amount of matter exists before and after the change —none is created or destroyed." This means that although a substance's physical properties may change, its atomic value does not. It's true! We can change how we physically look. However, the change in appearance will never be able to alter your worth. ~Britt💜
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