How to know when you're recovered ?

Hello guys, I decided to write a post about this, I also submitted it in Q&A for eating disorders.
As someone who's almost recovered from an eating disorder, I can try to answer this:

1. Food is no more your obsession. You have some other interests, you're dedicated to living your life, not to food thoughts. Also, a food obsession is obsession with recipes, cooking, taking photos of your food.

2. You feel comfortable with your body (when you're at your normal weight, of course). It's abnormal to feel fat once you're on a healthy weight, if you do feel fat even when at healthy BMI, you know that you're still not recovered.

3. You eat until you're satisfied; Not until you want to throw up/overeating(that's not healthy either), not until your mind tells you to stop(this is obviously not healthy, and that's your eating disorder speaking again). So, listening to what your body tells you.

4. You no more worry about portions of food. Too much ? Too little ? Nope. You're JUST eating, without caring about it. (I know how ignorant it sounds that "Just eating" haha)

5. You have some eating rules (for example, I eat things every x hours because I want to maintain), because not having some rules(which are not restrictive, but NORMAL) can lead to eating every hour something. Don't consider that as a recovery, that's not healthy. Having 1-2 snacks a day and 3 meals -. that's healthy, and that's also a rule. But that rules should be HEALTHY. Why rules ? Because not organized eating patterns aren't healthy either.

6. You're not easily triggered anymore. Someone talks about diet/weight/similar ? Nope, you learned to deal with triggers, or you even overcame them.

7. If you do exercise, you're no more doing it to lose weight, but to feel good, to entertain yourself... And because it's healthy.

8. You can handle hunger in normal situations (for example, waiting for a food to be served at some restaurant). But handling hunger when your goal is to actually starve yourself isn't healthy. And why I'm talking about handling hunger - because I wasn't able to handle it so I would binge, which obviously isn't healthy.

9. Not using your behaviors anymore, this is the obvious one! You don't restrict, you don't binge, you don't purge. You're not abusing laxatives, you're no more on any kind of diet, you eat like every normal person.

10. Even if you have some rules when it comes to food (I repeat: NOT RESTRICTIVE ONES, but healthy ones), you're able to break those rules when for example you're with your friends eating popcorn while watching some movie, and you DON'T feel guilty afterwards.

11. Even if you sometimes eat more than you wanted to because, haha, it tasted good, you don't feel guilty/have urges to purge/restrict/similar.

12. You stopped counting calories. That's why I don't support Minnie Maud, because it kind of forces you to count, and that's the thing you need to get rid of in recovery, not to force it again. Let your nutritionist make a meal plan and then eat more to gain. Your nutritionist should count your calories, not you.

13. You're no more focused not only on yours, but on the other people's bodies. You don't compare their bodies to yours anymore, it doesn't even come to your mind anymore.

14. Even if you get some urges to restrict/binge/purge, you know how to control them and not to give in. But you know that you're completely recovered when you don't get them anymore.

15. Knowing how to prevent a relapse, not giving in in ED thoughts anymore, but fighting them the best you can and openly talking about them.

Maybe I missed something, but I tried my best. This is what I consider being recovered from an eating disorder. Recovery is a long and extremely hard process, but it's possible.

Your @alexlove