@MuddyBoots - Walking 4-10 mi IS a form of purging just as vomiting you know if you are not eating adequate calories. That is the way I got diagnosed with anorexia - purging type. I never binged, just didn't eat enough to sustain the amt. of exercise I was doing and so dropped WAY below a BMI of 18, lost my period for a year, started losing hair, nearly/actually fainting. It is hard on your body as like vomiting especially in regards to injurty & osteopenia and imbalance of electrolytes and difiiculty sleeping (sleep suffers under lack of adequate calories). And I developed weird habits, hoarding food under my bed, going to grocery stores wandering around for hours then buying something ridiculously "safe" like a couple of small apples. All from purging through exercise.

BUT I came back from a low, low very low weight (should have been in an ED treatment program) on my own using CBT/DBT (didn't know it was called that at the time but that's what it was).

It IS actually possible to reverse ED behavior on your own without waiting for an ED group. Do you actually have a T, especially one familiar with an ED? Can you get a dietician? Of, and this is very strange, hypnosis actually helped me though I was ready for recovery by that time. But hypnosis can't make you do anything you are not ready/willing to do on your own.

If you go into ED treatment unready to recover, well then, you will reverse it all when you get out. I have heard SO many stories to that effect over the years.