Anorexia Recovery as an Adult: Teenage Brat Syndrome
Me before Matt is home from work: I miss Matt. Hope he gets home soon. He's so lovely. Matt: "Hey Babe, how was your day?" Me: OMG why are you always asking…
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Writing on eating disorder recovery for adults — the recovery process, neural rewiring, extreme hunger, weight restoration, and more.
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Defining Restriction. Defining Unrestricted Eating
In this podcast, Tabitha talks about restriction, and unrestricted eating. Restrictive eating disorders such as Anorexia are often misrepresented as total…
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Anorexia Made Me Tell Pork Pies
To my US friends, "pork pies" is rhyming slang for "lies." (Pork pies are also these delicious little meat filled shortcrust pastry pies, which incidentally…
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Dr Jennifer Gaudiani: Tummy Troubles in Eating Disorder Recovery
Tabitha talks to Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani about all things gastrointestinal in eating disorder recovery! We talk about bowel movements, irritable bowel…
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Eating Disorder Science: Variants in neuropeptide signaling are associated with disordered eating behaviors
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Micheal Lutter about the recently published paper titled: Novel and ultra-rare damaging variants in neuropeptide…
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Clinicians, you do not help us recover from Anorexia when you set low target weights and food intakes!
This is the first of a series of blogs aimed at eating disorder professionals. This series was inspired by the members of the recovery Slack group.…
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ARFID: An interview with an adult with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
In this blog post, I interview HELEN S. Helen is in her early 50s and has struggled with restrictive eating for much of her life Background to, and…
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Anorexia Fears: Using Migration Science to Explain Fear of Eating and Weight Gain
This week I speak to Shan Guisinger again, and this time we are talking specifically about fear in Anorexia. Fear of weight gain. Fear of eating more. How…
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Anorexia Fears: Eating More
I hated being underweight. I hated that if I left the house, schoolkids would shout "skinny freak" at me as I walked past. I hated that I couldn't sit down…
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Anorexia recovery while managing a young family [Podcast]
Recovery from Anorexia is often a time of heightened anxiety and stress. Managing recovery while looking after a young family is a reality for many adult…
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Anorexia and Kleptomania
klep·to·ma·ni·a noun a recurrent urge to steal, typically without regard for need or profit. This is a hard post to have to write. It's important as shame…
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Shan Guisinger: Adapt to Flee Famine Perspective of Anorexia Evolution
In this podcast we talk about the Adapt to Flee Famine Perspective of Anorexia evolution with Shan Guisinger. The Adapt to Flee Famine Perspective puts…
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Anorexia Recovery, Weight Restoration, and Energy Debt
I published a podcast this week titled, Energy Deficit | Energy Debt | Target Weights | Weight vs State Restoration, and I will explain Energy Debt in…
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Energy Deficit | Energy Debt | Target Weights | Weight vs State Restoration [Podcast]
Just me in this podcast! Responding to questions that I get frequently around Anorexia recovery and weight restoration. How to know when you are really…
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Slack group question answers: If you've had treatment for your ED, what do you find has been most helpful?
This week I was totally swamped and also finished the first draft of my next book (a complete recovery guide for adults with Anorexia). It's over 100,000…