This is actually one of the issues with studies on recovery from EDs. Research finds different rates of recovery, sustained recovery, and relapse for anorexia, and one of the reasons for that is there is no consistent definition of “recovery”. Different researchers are defining it different ways so measuring it different ways so getting different results.

My opinion is — yes, recovery is possible. Recovery IS subjective, so you have YOUR idea of what that looks like for you. You can work to achieve the recovery you envision even if it is not exactly the same as the recovery someone else is pursuing. I don’t believe you’ll go back to pre-ED — maybe you will, I can’t know for sure — but that doesn’t mean you can’t develop a healthy relationship with food and your body. It just might be different in a few ways to how it used to be. There is more than one way to have a healthy relationship with those things.