Below you will find suggestions to help get you started in staying positive about yourself during the battle to recover.

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Today I will be open to growing by trying something new.

I am not afraid of growth enhancing commitments, which will advance my recovery.

I pray for courage and wisdom to make and maintain positive commitments.

Fears and doubts get smaller when I talk about them.

As I work on cultivating qualities such as honesty, courage, faith, love and responsibility, I will become less preoccupied with my external appearance.

I DO make a difference.

When I fill my body with good things I need-rest, proper nutrition, satisfying work, loving and caring, my effectiveness grows.

Recovery may seem hard, but isn’t the alternative worse.

Today, I will make an effort to take one small step toward reaching one of my goals.

I can cope with change to day without turning to or away from food.

I can accept my difficulties as challenges, using them to spur on to continued growth.

Although I am working hard on recovering, I can also have fun.

Today I will take every chance to participate in life, not control it.

Each person I encounter today can show me a piece of myself.

Recovering means accepting myself today just as I am today so I can get on with the business of my life.

Today I will take a long good look at the good things in my life.

I can live creatively if I can accept my anxiety and am willing to experience butterflies in my stomach from time to time.

Today I will dare to follow a creative inner prompting even if I feel some anxiety.

I will simplify my life today by concentrating on my priorities.

Doing my best is success.

I look back and see that my failures are showing me the way to success. I will accept the best I am able to do right now as success for today.

Courage grows as we use it.

I may not be in a very good mood. I may not make visible progress today. But, at the very least, I can avoid self-destructive behavior around food. I can follow my meal plan for today, whether I feel like it or not.

If I don't fuel a bad mood by B/P or restricting, I have a better chance of getting over it quickly.

My opinions are worthwhile and deserve to be heard.

I am responsible for my own attitude.

There is a purpose and meaning to my life.

I realized how many positive choices are available to me.

I can be kind and patient with myself in my progress toward recovery.

I can be good to myself today and let my meal plan take care of my weight.

I can decide on a reasonable meal plan and let go of the obsessions with food, and weight.

I can trust myself to deal with whatever comes along whether good or not so good. No event requires me to binge or restrict.

I am strong enough to face my anxieties and function in spite of them.

I can accept and nurture my body and spirit.

Recovery requires action. I can actively change my behavior.

I can learn how to be alone comfortably and creatively.

I do not have to continue responding to life in the same old way. I can grow and change

Today I will use what I have with gratitude

Slips and slides should not be excuses for giving up.

I give myself permission to begin again with whatever I am trying to learn.

May I courageously continue the adventure of self-discovery.

My Ed behaviors take me out of circulation and away form meaningful contacts. Recovery gives me back to those I love.

There is a plan for my life that coordinates with the strengths and abilities I possess.

I can decide to be cheerful and optimistic, just for today.

I love and accept myself where I am now. I am wonderful.

I can speak up for myself.

I am free to take charge of my life.

I let go of everything, which I no longer need.

I release all pressure and burdens. I live in the joyous present.

Forgiveness, tolerance, compassion, I move forward without hesitation.

I am courageous and independent.

I am a decisive person. I follow through. I welcome new ideas and concepts.

I release anger in harmless ways.

I seek only good everywhere.

I bless my body with love. All parts of my body are beautiful.

I can handle all my experiences with wisdom love and ease.

I accept only thoughts that support me and make me feel good.

I am willing to change I love and approve of myself.

I am at peace. I am at calm. All is well.

I lovingly release the past and turn my attention to this new day. All is well.

As I love and approve of myself. I create a joyful, peaceful world to live in.

I move beyond old limitations..

I trust in the process of life. I am always in the right place, doing the right things, at the right time. I love and approve of myself.

I release all fears by trusting the process of my life.

I choose to create peace in my mind, my body and my world. All is well.

I release all that is unlike love and joy in my mind. I move from the past into the new.

I lovingly protect myself with thoughts of joy and peace. The past is forgiven and forgotten.

I am relaxed and peaceful.

I am the living, joyous expression of life. I am my own person.

I deserve and accept the very best in life.

I now take charge of my mind and my life. I am powerful, dynamite woman! Every part of my body functions perfectly. I LOVE me! It is my birthright to have my needs met. I now ask for what I want with love and ease.

I create my own experiences. As I love and approve of myself and others, my experiences get better and better.

No person, place, thing, or thought has power over me.

I allow myself to enjoy every moment of everyday…TOTALLY!

I am totally adequate for all situations that arise.

I control my thoughts.

I move forward with confidence and ease. I trust the flow and process of my life.

I create my good and my freedom with loving thoughts.

I now choose to enjoy my life.

I recognize my own true worth.

I release the pattern of delay within me, and I now allow success to be mine

It is with flexibility and ease that I see all sides of an issue. There are endless ways of doing and seeing things.

It is safe for me to grow up. I can now handle my own life with joy and ease.

It is safe for me to be alive. IT is safe to be me. I am good enough as I am. I trust myself.

I have the capacity to take in the fullest of life

I am 100% responsible for everything in my life, the best and the worst.

Every thought I think is creating my future.

I create my experiences by my thoughts and feelings.

I have unlimited choices in what I can think.

Love is everywhere and I am loving and loveable.

My point of power is in the present moment and is forming the experiences of tomorrow.

All the experiences I have had in my lifetime have been created by my thoughts and beliefs I have held in the past. That is my past. It is over and done with. What is important is what I am choosing to think, believe and say RIGHT NOW!

The only thing I am ever dealing with is thought, and thought can be changed.

The past has NO power over me!

I can change my attitudes toward the past.

I can refuse to think certain thoughts. Look how often I have refused to think a positive thought about myself. I can also refuse to think a negative thought about myself.

The past is over and done. I cannot change that now. Yet I can change my thoughts about it.

How silly for me to punish myself in the present moment because someone hurt me in the long ago past.

I choose to release the past and forgive everyone, myself included.

That person I find hardest to forgive is the one I need to let go of the most.

Criticism locks me into the very pattern I am trying to change.

I have been criticizing myself for years and it hasn't worked. I will try approving of myself and see what happens.

I have great respect for myself and gratitude for the miracle of my body and my mind.

I feel love for the joy of being alive!

I feel love for my body and the way it works.

I feel love for me.

I no longer need to procrastinate on things that would benefit me.

I am doing the best I can with the understanding, awareness and knowledge I have. As I gain more of this, I will do things differently. If a thought or belief does not serve me, I will let it go. There is no written law that says because once I believed something I have to continue to believe it forever

There are literally billions of thoughts I can choose to think.

I am never STUCK. Change is always taking place.

I am the only person who thinks in my mind. I am the power and authority in my world.

What I now choose to believe, think, and say up to this moment will create the next moment.

I am the power in my world. I get to have whatever I choose to think.

I will surrender, giving up the resistance, and allow myself to learn what I need to learn. This will make the next step easier.

I am gentle and patient with myself as I untangle my own mental knots.

Procrastination is one way to keep me from getting where I want to go.

I will keep going.

My mind is a tool I can choose to use any way I wish.

I am in control of my mind. I use my mind. I can stop thinking self-defeating thoughts.

There is so much love in my heart I could heal the planet. I will use a portion of this love to heal myself.

The more I dwell on what I don't want, the more of it I create.

I love and approve of all of me, even those qualities I thought were not good enough.

Thoughts have no power over me unless I give in to them. I give them meaning and I choose to think thought that nourish and support me.

My first thoughts on awakening before I open my eyes are thankful for everything I can think of.

I love who and what I am and what I do.

Love is never outside myself, it is within me.

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