Title: recovery need not be as bleak and limited as this portrait
Product review: Hornbacher's story is written in such a way that anyone with eating issues can find themselves within her struggle. The medical consequences that Hornbacher discribes are enough to make anyone think twice about self-destructive behavior. However, Hornbacher is hardly one to present recovery. Recovery is running for an hour a day on a treadmill then blacking out? Recovery is eating cereal for dinner sometimes on bad days? Don't sell yourself short of Hornbacher's vision of recovery with "just being all right." Genuine freedom from eating disorders can be possible, and Hornbacher does not accurately reflect those who have been afflicted with an eating disorder when she implies that the disease is always something you will act upon on occasion for the rest of your life.
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