InChristAlone
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Yeah I can totally understand the reasoning for not restricting any foods and eating all high calorie foods. I have to eat a highly palatable diet or I lose my appetite and get on a viscious cycle of food fear. It's not fun to think foods are going to hurt you. It pretty much controls your life amd food is all you think about and contemplate.
It seems like long term difficulties are with persistent edema and of course the weight gain, which may by itself lead to the metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance but like others have mentioned these things are preferable to the eating disorder. Some never get their appetite back for 'healthy' foods and have to continually eat the junky foods to keep up. If diabetes was an issue I'd think just cutting back on the fatty junk foods would be a good strategy as long as food anxiety didn't take over.
It seems like long term difficulties are with persistent edema and of course the weight gain, which may by itself lead to the metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance but like others have mentioned these things are preferable to the eating disorder. Some never get their appetite back for 'healthy' foods and have to continually eat the junky foods to keep up. If diabetes was an issue I'd think just cutting back on the fatty junk foods would be a good strategy as long as food anxiety didn't take over.