A little background info: I have been a bigger gal my entire life. At 5'2" I weighed around 175lbs at 13 years of age. Around the age of 15 a traumatic event led me to quit eating and I dropped to about 106lbs in 4 months. The next 7 years were spent either not counting calories and gaining it all back or counting calories and becoming obsessed and anorexic again. I'm back at 165lbs (down from 170) and I don't allow myself to exactly count any calories (I have a vague idea but don't weigh food or look too hard). Instead, I don't eat anything with more than 3 ingredients I don't recognize. What happens is that I don't eat processed foods, prepackaged meals or sodas. I feel great because I know I'm not filling my body with toxins and chemicals I don't need and I don't have to obsess over every gram of fat or every calorie I ingest.

Anywho, I hope this helps someone else. Eating disorders are rough and easy to slip back into. In my opinion the best thing we can do is make our bodies as healthy as possible and let weightloss happen as a byproduct.