Welcome to my amateur blog!

Welcome to my Blog. This is not a blog where I will be posting my daily struggles on eating disorder and its sister behaviors. Instead, this blog is all about methods and techniques that were combined with the National Health Services Eating Disorder Guidelines (NHS for us UK denizens) and my Islamic faith to defeat the dark demon of eating disorder. I am the most amateur writer you will ever come across, English is my 3rd language, so please do forgive me for errors. It is upon insistence of one of my dearest friend that I have decided to allow the small number of you to read my entries and have a good laugh. This poor excuse of a blog is about my struggles with anorexia that turned into anorexia nervosa in a culture where if you dare question your mother about calories and content of fat in her curry, she will chase you around the house with her rolling pin. I will also include an entry on my attempted recovery at home and in the  idyllic city of Islamabad.

I will try to post recovery tips that I used on how to reverse the eating disorder damage on your body, wonderful recipes and self-healing tips using Sufi and holistic methods. I am so vain (at times I cannot even believe it:)), so please do forgive me when you see most of the recipes have a covert agenda of keeping my skin beautiful, my hair lustrous and my youth intact:), but at the same time these recipes are nutritious and results are unbelievable.

On a serious note,  eating disorder has  opened my eyes to the notion that how unfamiliar this disease is to people from my world. In fact, it was this lack of awareness of eating disorder in Muslim culture that made me embark on a journey of self discovery and healing. I am still searching for answers.

But I thank God for one thing:

“A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah”

~ Shaykh Ibn Taymiyyah

Please criticize and well if you want then leave a comment.

Before I sign off , quote of the day:

"Take advantage of five opportunities before five other things: Your youth before your senescence, your health before your illness, your wealth before your poverty, your leisure before your haste, and your life before your death."

Love, Light and Blessings

Maha S