Viced

Congratulations!

I found the return of hunger cues super overwhelming & triggering at first but what helped for me was:

-Using a lot of affirmations about hunger being ok/doing extra self-soothing. Like reblogging then in my recovery blog or hanging them up.

-When hunger cues were still super new, I timed my anxiety med with my psychiatrist to be taken around the times I get hungry so I was less likely to have a full panic attack & was more capable of feeding myself.

-I got really stressed out at jest about feeling hungry when I wasn’t “supposed” to (aka when it wasn’t time on my meal plan to eat), so I did a lot of work with my dietician around flexibility and honoring my hunger cues. For me it’s helpful to hear someone else affirm that it’s ok to be hungry & respond to hunger so I ask her for reminders as well as my loved ones.

-ultimately for me, honoring my hunger meant changing my meal plan (which was scary at first) to one where I was scheduled to eat when I naturally get hungry. So I still have a schedule but it’s a bit more intuitive & flexible so that I’m not shutting down my hunger cues “for the sake of following my meal plan” (which I know is usually a bs excuse on my part to follow restrictive urges)