Affirmations for binge eating

Affirmations for binge eating

• My body deserves love
• I am perfect, whole, and complete just the way I am
• I feed my body healthy nourishing food and give it healthy nourishing exercise because it deserves to be taken care of
• I love and respect myself
• It’s okay to love myself now as I continue to evolve
• My body is a temple. I want to treat it with love and respect.
• My body is a gift.
• Food doesn’t have to be the enemy, it can be nurturing and healing.
• Life is too short and too precious to waste time obsessing about my body. I am going to take care of it to the best of my ability and get out of my head and into the world.
• I will not give in to the voices of my eating disorder that tell me I’m not okay. I will listen to the healthy voices that I do have, even if they are very quiet so that I can understand that I am fine. I am fine.
• Food doesn’t make me feel better, it just temporarily stops me from feeling what I’m feeling.
• I have everything inside of me that I need to take care of myself without using food.
• A goal weight is an arbitrary number, how I feel is what’s important.
• I am worthy of love
• As long as I am good, kind, and hold myself with integrity, it doesn’t matter what other people think of me.
• Other people are too busy thinking about themselves to care what my weight is
• When I compare myself to others, I destroy myself, I don’t want to destroy myself so I’ll just continue on my journey, not worrying about other people’s journeys.
• I am blessed to be aging. The only alternative to aging is death.
• It’s okay for me to like myself. It’s okay for me to love myself.
• I have to be an advocate for me. I can’t rely on anyone else to do that for me.
• A “perfect” body is one that works, no matter what that means for you personally.
• It’s okay for me to trust the wisdom of my body.
• Just because someone looks perfect on the outside, doesn’t mean they have a perfect life. No one has a perfect life, we all struggle. That’s just what being human is.
• If I spend too much time trying to be and look like someone else, I cease to pay attention to myself, my virtues, my path, and my journey.
• When I look to others to dictate who I should be or how I should look, I reject who I am.
• The last thing I should be doing is rejecting myself. Accepting myself as I am right now is the first step in changing, growing and evolving. When I reject myself, I cannot grow.
• Self respect is underrated.
• I can only go forward, so although I can learn from it, I refuse to dwell on the past.
• ALL images in magazines are airbrushed, photoshopped, and distorted.
• If people actively judge or insult me, it’s because they feel badly about themselves. No one who feels good about themselves has the need to put someone down to elevate themselves- they have better things to do with their time.
• I have no need to put someone down to elevate myself.
• I can be a good person if I choose to be.
• It’s my life, I can choose the way I want to live it.
• When I smile, I actually make other people happy.
• Balance is the most important.
• If I binge today, I can still love and accept myself, I don’t have to beat, berate and starve myself right afterwards, and I still have the very next moment to jump right back into recovery.
• Recovery is an ongoing process that is not linear in fashion. If I slip up, I’ll take the opportunity as a learning experience and get right back to my recovery goals/program.
• Progress is not linear. It’s normal for me to go forward and then backward, and then forward again.
• I enjoy feeling good. It’s okay for me to feel good.
• Having an eating disorder is not my identity.
• Being skinny or fat is not my identity. I am identified by who I am on the inside, a loving, wonderful person.
• I choose health and healing over diets and punishing myself.
• My opinion of myself is the only one I truly know and it’s the only one that counts. I can choose my opinion of myself.
• When I am in my head too much, I can return to my breath, just breath and be okay. There is only this moment.
• It’s okay to let others love me, why wouldn’t they?
• I am good stuff.
• I am compassionate and warm. My presence is delightful to people.
• My very existence makes the world a better place.
• It’s okay to pay someone to rub my feet every once in a while.
• If I am hungry, I am supposed to let myself eat. Food is what keeps me alive.
• Getting older makes me smarter.
• It’s okay not to be the best all the time.
• My well-being is the most important thing to me. I am responsible for taking care of me. We are each responsible for ourselves.
• No one has the power to make me feel bad about myself without my permission.
• My feet are cute. Even if they’re ugly.
• I eat for energy and nourishment.
• Chocolate is not the enemy. It’s not my friend either. It’s just chocolate, it has no power over me.
• I can be conscious in my choices.
• I am stronger than the urge to binge.
• I am healthier than the urge to purge.
• Restricting my food doesn’t make me a better person, being kind to myself and to others makes me a better person.
• Being skinny doesn’t make me good. Being fat doesn’t make me bad.
• I can be healthy at any size.
• Life doesn’t start 10 pounds from now, it’s already started. I can make the choice to include myself in it.
• Food, drugs, and alcohol are not the solution. But they might seem like it at times, but using these things can make more problems. I have what I need inside of me as the solution.
• There is a guide inside of me who is wise and will always be there to help me on my journey.
• Sometimes sitting around and doing nothing is just what the doctor ordered. It’s okay to let myself relax.
• I am a human being, not a human doing. It’s okay to just be sometimes. I don’t always have to be doing.
• My brain is my sexiest body part.
• Looks last about five minutes– or until someone opens their mouth.
• My life is what I make of it. I have all the power here.
• My body is a vessel for my awesomeness.
• My body can do awesome things.
• If I am healthy, I am so very blessed.
• I won’t let magazines or the media tell me what I should look like. I look exactly the way I’m supposed to. I know because this is the way god made me!
• What is supposedly pleasing to the eye is not always what is pleasing to the touch. Cuddly is good!
• I can trust my intuition. It’s here to guide me.
• Just because I am taking care of myself and being an advocate for myself doesn’t mean I’m selfish.
• Not everyone has to like me. I just have to like me.
• It’s not about working on myself it’s about being okay with who I already am.
• My needs are just as important as anyone else.
• Body, if you can love me for who I am, I promise to love you for who you are– no one is responsible for changing anyone else.
• I will make peace with my body, it doesn’t do anything but keep me alive and all I do is insult it and hurt it. I’m sorry body, you’ve tried to be good to me and care for me, it’s time for me to try to be good back.
• Thighs, thank you for carrying me.
• Belly, thank you for holding in all my organs and helping me digest.
• Skin, thank you for shielding and protecting me.
• Other people don’t dictate my choices for me, I know what’s best for myself.
• I feed my body life affirming foods so that I can be healthy and vital.
• Taking care of myself feels good.
• I can eat a variety of foods for health and wellness without bingeing.
• There is more to life that losing weight. I’m ready to experience it.
• If I let go of my obsession with food and my body weight, there is a whole world waiting for me to explore.
• The numbers on the scale are irrelevant to who I am as a human.
• Food is not good or bad. It has no moral significance. I can choose to be good or bad and it has nothing to do with the amount of calories or carbohydrates I eat.
• I am still beautiful when I’m having a bad hair day.
• My nose gives me the ability to breathe. Breath gives me the ability to be an amazingly grounded, solid person.
• Being grounded and whole is what makes me beautiful. If I don’t feel grounded and whole, I can get there just by being still, breathing, listening to my intuition, and doing what I can to be kind to myself and others.
• I am not bad and I don’t deserve to be punished, not by myself and not by others.
• I deserve to be treated with love and respect and so do you. I choose to do and say kind things for and about myself and for and about others.
• Even if I don’t see how pretty I am, there is someone who does. I am loved and admired. REALLY!
• Beauty?… To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. ~Pablo Picasso