About Me

I am 24 years old; I lost 9 years of my life to bulimia. At age 23, I realized I was living a life based on other peoples' standards. I was unhappy, unsatisfied, and completely controlled by my eating disorder, but I saw the opportunity to begin living my life for myself. I wanted to love myself again, and I realized I would not let myself love myself until I was able to live honestly - and healthfully - without my eating disorder. I also realized I could not recover my health on my own. I checked myself into an in-patient hospital program for "symptom interruption" for eating disorder recovery. I was in the hospital's in-patient program for 2 weeks, then I joined the hospital's partial day program. I am beginning this blog today - Saturday, June 7; I have not used any bulimic symptom use (binging and/or purging) since I checked myself into the hospital's in-patient program on May 5, one month and 5 days ago.