I, like many of you have struggled with constipation for years now. I’ve had an ED since middle school and I’m turning 21 next month, to put things into perspective. For the longest time I thought everyone spent days without shutting, until I realized it was a side effect of not eating enough/ eating like shit. Recently, I decided to try to recover now that I started weight lifting. I want to improve my relationship with food and end the cycle of starve, binge, hate myself, repeat. I’ve been making food for myself at home instead of ordering take out like usual, and eating actual meals instead of just something once a day and calling it intermittent fasting lmao. I eat when my hungry and I don’t eat when I’m bored. I still have a long way to go but can I just say… if I knew that weight lifting and eating clean would completely get rid of my constipation I would’ve tried to recover ages ago. I’m telling y’all I shit at least once a day now, when before I could go days without pooping and I’d be so bloated and miserable.

A side note: I love weight lifting. I’ve always forced myself to do cardio because I was told it’s the quickest way to burn calories and I was intimidated by the gym. Because of this I hated to exercise and now I look forward to the gym, it feels like it’s something I’m doing for myself and not something I’m doing to punish my body. Recovery is weird.