Consious choices.

One thing that I find helps me when I am in a tough spot with my eating is to realize that I can make a concious decision over my unconcious feelings and anxieties. Trusting what I know is right istead acting off the feelings my unconsious is feeding me. (Now, getting to the point where you know you are stable enough to depict whats right and whats wrong is a big step as well, Quissential to being able to respong rationally.)
Feelings are rooted in the past. Past experiences are what lead the unconsious to set up a defense mechanism for fear of those negative feelings and emotions arising again.
Example being: eating a cookie and feeling bad about it. You might, in the present be scared to eat that cookie for fear of feeling guilty as a result from indulging. Corresponding to how you felt in the past. Or it might be something like; not wanting to climb a latter becuase you once fell off one and sprained your leg. Fears and preconditioned feelings are all sculpted by what has already occured.
So consequently the unconiouos is biased. The unconcious has no future planning abilities, its already molded by what has already occured and acts on how you reacted in that instense.

So; when I am feeling like I have over whelming anxiety from being faced with an intimidated meal or from not being able to exercize or what have you I take the time to consiously note how I am feeling. I can consiously decide to react to the meal and obstacle based from what I KNOW is right, what I KNOW is healthy. Not how I feel. Becuase the feelings I have at the moment are quite biased and dillusional stemmed from my eating disorder. In the throws of my anorexia I felt so ashamed for eating something which I deemed bad. I would beat myself up mentally and physically for days., to compensate. I still have these fears that I will hate myself and question my self worth if I make the choice to eat something.
But over the length of my recovery I have challenged these fears and inhibitions. I realized that I dont have to allow myself to feel guilty. That just becuase I once was scared to eat a cookie, or to not exercize the amount of time I anticipated doesnt mean that I will feel that way again.
I am MAKING A CONCIOUS DECISION on the present moment. Taking the responsibility of how I react to my choices and not letting the anorexia tell me how to feel. The anorexia is not the one who is going to call the shots.