Addict vs. Exercise

I rediscovered the missing link in my life. THE GYM! I quit exercising consistently after Matix was born. I never noticed it before, but that is seriously when my life took the biggest downward step.  

When I was leaving the treatment center, I told my therapist that I was planning on getting a gym membership. Her response was definitely not a positive one. She warned me saying that it was dangerous place to be with an eating disorder.i've never abused exercise. I wenti've never abused exercise. I went every day for a lot of years, but I never did it excessively. I would typically do about 45 minutes of cardio and the rest weights maybe a half hour so. Exercise has never been a part of my eating disorder, I never used exercise is a way to purge my food.

I joined the gym last week and I can tell you this week has probably been the best yet, since coming home from the center.

I feel like I've been reunited with an old friend. So here lays the question: what is worse addiction or exercise addiction? I feel as though a person can easily trade one addiction to another and that other being exercise. Maybe some would look at it negatively since exercise is your new high. Perhaps exercise addiction is very real, but if there is one thing to be addicted to I feel like exercise wins.