Anorexia and Exercise 2: The lower-level movement trap
I wrote about Anorexia and exercise last week and the case for cold turkey. This post is the follow up to that and it addresses lower-level, movement. If…
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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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Exercise and Anorexia: The Case for Cold Turkey
Dr: "Are you eating?" Me: "Yes" Dr: "Hmm ... Well. you are still very underweight, so maybe try eating a bit more?" Me: "Sure, I'll try that." What my Dr…
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Anorexia Recovery as an Adult: Letting go of nutritional science
I have a nutrition qualification, but I don't use it. In fact, what I was taught about nutrition on that course set me back a good couple of years in…
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Anorexia is a Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorder and should be treated as such ...
While it may be broadly understood that effective knowledge, diagnostics, treatment and resources for eating disorders are lacking, I think that until…
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Anorexia recovery and food rules: Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better
Anorexia: You can't have that bagel for lunch. That would be a breach of Rule #382 Me: Rule #382? Anorexia: Yes, rule #382: Bagel for breakfast cannot be…
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Adults in Recovery Workshop Coming Up!
Not a usual post from me. I just want to tell you about the upcoming Boulder, Colorado workshop I am offering May 20-12. Actually first of all I want to…
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Anorexia Recovery as an Adult: My body is not a calculator ... and mental hunger counts!
When we start trying to control weight, food intake, and energy balance artificially we are messing with a system what we know too little about. Nutritional…
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Anorexia Recovery: What about when I am not hungry?
I got the below email and decided that I would answer it in blog post because I think that these are questions that many adults in Anorexia recovery will…
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The trouble with target weights in Anorexia recovery: Living paycheck to paycheck
There are certainly problems that arise with "target weights" in Anorexia recovery. The biggest, overarching theme is that they are set too low. I wrote…
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Anorexia Recovery: Why is it that treatment seems to serve my eating disorder better than it serves my recovery?
I don't expect everyone to read this and agree with it. The TL;DR is that I believe that there is a fear that infests many eating disorder treatment…
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Anorexia: Mid-Recovery Clusterfuck (Charlie Foxtrot)
This post contains swear words. This is not an apology, I'm just letting you know. :D When I went through what I refer to now as my "Mid-Recovery…
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Finding Recovery Motivation — Scrapping the Anorexia Identity
One of the questions I get asked the most by both sufferers and parents/partners of sufferers is; "how did you find the motivation to recover?" often…
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Anorexia Recovery As An Adult: School Of Failure
I'm not someone who berates herself for not getting everything right. Contrary to popular belief about people with Anorexia, I am not a perfectionist, not…
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Eating Disorder Recovery and Family Life: Picky Eaters and Innocent triggers
Today I am going to look at a somewhat awkward but nonetheless important idea: the notion that the eating behaviours of children could in fact act as…