When you are feeling beaten down by your eating disorder or questioning recovery, what do you say to yourself??? Here’s my top ten things to say to yourself when you feel like you need to reinforce staying in recovery.

1. None of my problems will get better if I act on my eating disorder urges right now. Nothing ever gets better if I stay sick.
2. Using this behavior right now is just masking the real problem. What am I trying to “accomplish” by using it? What is this urge trying to tell me?
3. I cannot use a behavior just once and expect that I won’t want to use it again. Eating disordered behaviors are addictive. The more I use them, the more I want to use them.
4. I need to stay stronger than my illness. I need to fight hard every single meal, every single day.
5. I need to remember that recovery isn’t supposed to be comfortable. If I am not comfortable right now, I must be doing something right!
6. Recovery doesn’t have to be perfect right now. I just need to do the best I possibly can in this moment.
7. It is never too late to start over. No matter how long I have struggled, I can start my life over right now.
8. My body doesn’t define me. I cannot hurt it through my eating disorder behaviors or other forms of self-harm. My recovery has to involve taking good care of myself – mind, body and soul.
9. I need to eat food to nourish my body. I need to eat well each and every day for my body to be strong and healthy.
10. I am NOT my eating disorder. My eating disorder is NOT my identity. It is an illness, not a choice but I am free and able to make the choices I need to make each and every day to get better, find my true identity and live free of this illness.

From http://www.thebeginwithinblog.com/2011/10/httpwww-thebeginwithinblog-comp3066/