This is from Carolyn Costin’s book 100 Questions and Answers about Eating Disorders:

“Being recovered is when the person can accept his or her natural body size and shape and no longer has a self-destructive relationship with food or exercise.  When you are recovered, food and weight take a proper perspective in your life, and what you weigh is not more important than who you are; in fact, actual numbers are of little importance at all.  When recovered, you will not compromise your health or betray your soul to look a certain way, wear a certain size, or reach a certain number on the scale.  When you are recovered, you do not use eating disorder behaviors to deal with, distract from, or cope with other problems.”