Today I'm sharing the six eating disorder rules that saved my life. My name is Kimberley

Quinlan. I'm an anxiety expert, but I'm also someone who is recovered from an eating disorder.

It's been almost 15 years. I cannot believe it. And just the other day someone on social media

asked, what were the specific strategies I used to get

into recovery and when I thought about it there were these six rules that I had to follow

and then there are rules that help me at the beginning of treatment but also helped me with

relapse prevention so I'm going to share them here with you and I hope that you find them

helpful. What I do want to say first though is everybody is different. These were the rules that

helped me. It's really important that you seek professional mental health care so that you can

find specific rules that will help you also. However, that being the case, these are concepts that I speak with my clients with all the time.

I think they're pretty universal.

So you may need to tweak them a little, but they're still going to be so important for your eating disorder recovery.

So let's get started into it.

Number one was no missing meals or snacks. That was,

if anything, that is going to be the most important rule that was set for me and the rules that I

set with my patients when they're struggling with any kind of eating disorder.

Of course, it's always helpful if you go see a nutritionist or a dietitian so we can find

exactly what's helpful for you, but no missing meals. For me, when I had an eating disorder,

it was also a matter of really renegotiating what a meal was.

In many years of my eating disorder, a meal, in my mind, was two quarters of a piece of pita bread.

That is not a meal.

That's not even a snack.

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