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[–] Carsandsarcasm 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

This sort of stuff drives fear deep into the heart of people with eating disorders. Their biggest fear is getting fat and when they see "recovered" people who are fat, they think that recovery equals getting fat. It doesn't, though. Recovery means becoming healthy, developing a good relationship with food, and maintaining a normal body fat percentage. I'm happily recovered and my BMI puts me at 21.8 with visible abs. I'm not fat and I'm not starving. That's true recovery, but these fats make it seem like the alternative to being emaciated and miserable is being obese, and thus, miserable.

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[–] Sleep-MD 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It's like telling someone addicted to meth that uppers are dangerous, so you should take downers instead.

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[–] Carsandsarcasm ago 

It's more like telling a meth addict that giving up meth will mean spending the rest of their lives in withdrawal. Eating disorders are miserable, and with one, the idea of being fat is less preferable than any pain imaginable, so if those are the options, they prefer to at least be thin (even if they don't always see it). If more people with EDs knew they could recover and still maintain a BMI of 19 or 20, more would attempt recovery, but the accepted knowledge is that recover equal BMI of 25 forever.