Chloe's Sock It to Eating Disorders
Chloe Tipper is raising money for Beat
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After receiving an email last night from B.E.A.T about the upcoming National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDA), I've been thinking about how to give back to the charity that basically helped to save my life alongside the NHS. This September marks my 6 year anniversary since diagnosis, where I was rushed through as a priority to NHS Brownhill Clinic for assessments and refeeding. Inpatient was an option but thankfully because Mum is a nurse and my local GP is only half a mile down the road I was able to begin recovery at home, on the conditon I consistently gained weight, otherwise inpatient would be my next destination. House arrest wasn't easy, force feeding nearly broke me, the tantrums pulled apart my family and I was dying mentally and physically. My weight continued to drop after my initial consultation and inpatient loomed over me, but then an epiphany... A bloodtest result that still sticks in my mind to this day, tell me I was in early Renal Failure and had Liver Damage. My body was struggling to keep up, and for the first time I was able to breakaway from the demon and see what it was doing to me. Here my recovery began and I've not looked back since, and I couldn't have got this far without support from family, friends, therapists, consultants, doctors, the NHS and BEAT.
Within the space of time from diagnosis to now I've been through 3 relapses, suffered from Restrictive Anorexia, Bulimia, Over Exercise Disorder, Binge Eating Disorder and EDNOS but it's not stopped me on my path to recovery. If anything it's made me stronger and pushed me to improve myself mentally and physically! I've used everything I went through in my first year of recovery as motivation to keep going and not give in...and I'd like to take this chance to remember those who I met in recovery that are sadly no longer with us. Fly high and shine bright, you're true warriors 💕
I've fund raised before for BEAT where I took part in the Cheltenham Devil Mud Run in 2016, which helped me raise £200 in online donations. But this time I'm going to follow the charities idea of 'Sock It to Eating Disorders' and wear brightly coloured socks throughout the whole week of NEDA to promote the charity and make myself standout from the crowd, to prove there's nothing embarrassing about having an Eating Disorder and it's something you don't have to hide. Talking and accepting that you have an Eating Disorder isn't showing weakness, it's showing strength in millions of forms! I was so ashamed of what I was suffering from initially and I told everyone I had a metabolism issue, which was why I was losing weight... But then once I'd admitted to myself that I was an Anorexic my world changed, literally overnight. I told family first, then close friends and then put a little write up on social media to explain that I'd lied, lied to everyone and myself about something that I don't need to be ashamed of. 5 and a half years later I'm the strongest I've ever been both mentally and physically, I have gained all of the weight back I lost in healthy muscle and now look at my body as a warrior to have put up with so much abuse.
So to all of you out there, please help me to raise awareness of something so close to my heart and whack on a pair of brightly coloured socks and help to 'Sock It to Eating Disorders' in the week commencing 25th Feb 2019. Also please check our my JustGiving page, and if you can, just donate a little bit to BEAT! Cheers guys for the constant support, it means the world!
After receiving an email last night from B.E.A.T about the upcoming National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDA), I've been thinking about how to give back to the charity that basically helped to save my life alongside the NHS. This September marks my 6 year anniversary since diagnosis, where I was rushed through as a priority to NHS Brownhill Clinic for assessments and refeeding. Inpatient was an option but thankfully because Mum is a nurse and my local GP is only half a mile down the road I was able to begin recovery at home, on the conditon I consistently gained weight, otherwise inpatient would be my next destination. House arrest wasn't easy, force feeding nearly broke me, the tantrums pulled apart my family and I was dying mentally and physically. My weight continued to drop after my initial consultation and inpatient loomed over me, but then an epiphany... A bloodtest result that still sticks in my mind to this day, tell me I was in early Renal Failure and had Liver Damage. My body was struggling to keep up, and for the first time I was able to breakaway from the demon and see what it was doing to me. Here my recovery began and I've not looked back since, and I couldn't have got this far without support from family, friends, therapists, consultants, doctors, the NHS and BEAT.
Within the space of time from diagnosis to now I've been through 3 relapses, suffered from Restrictive Anorexia, Bulimia, Over Exercise Disorder, Binge Eating Disorder and EDNOS but it's not stopped me on my path to recovery. If anything it's made me stronger and pushed me to improve myself mentally and physically! I've used everything I went through in my first year of recovery as motivation to keep going and not give in...and I'd like to take this chance to remember those who I met in recovery that are sadly no longer with us. Fly high and shine bright, you're true warriors 💕
I've fund raised before for BEAT where I took part in the Cheltenham Devil Mud Run in 2016, which helped me raise £200 in online donations. But this time I'm going to follow the charities idea of 'Sock It to Eating Disorders' and wear brightly coloured socks throughout the whole week of NEDA to promote the charity and make myself standout from the crowd, to prove there's nothing embarrassing about having an Eating Disorder and it's something you don't have to hide. Talking and accepting that you have an Eating Disorder isn't showing weakness, it's showing strength in millions of forms! I was so ashamed of what I was suffering from initially and I told everyone I had a metabolism issue, which was why I was losing weight... But then once I'd admitted to myself that I was an Anorexic my world changed, literally overnight. I told family first, then close friends and then put a little write up on social media to explain that I'd lied, lied to everyone and myself about something that I don't need to be ashamed of. 5 and a half years later I'm the strongest I've ever been both mentally and physically, I have gained all of the weight back I lost in healthy muscle and now look at my body as a warrior to have put up with so much abuse.
So to all of you out there, please help me to raise awareness of something so close to my heart and whack on a pair of brightly coloured socks and help to 'Sock It to Eating Disorders' in the week commencing 25th Feb 2019. Also please check our my JustGiving page, and if you can, just donate a little bit to BEAT! Cheers guys for the constant support, it means the world!