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BBC Woman’s Hour and Anorexia
[sgmb id="1"] I have a confession to make. I love BBC Woman's Hour. I download and listen to every single podcast, and delight in the breadth of discussion. Anything from sex in a long-term relationship to debating American politics goes down on BBC Woman's...
Veganism and Eating Disorders: Let’s Be Frank
Before I piss off any vegans with this post, let's get one thing straight: I have nothing against vegans, nor am I saying that nobody can be vegan. I am not attacking veganism—frankly I don't really give a shit what other people do and don't eat anymore (and that's a...
Eating Disorder Recovery: Aim to Overshoot
This is my second post on Overshoot. The first one is here. The first post focused on what overshoot is and why it is difficult for a person in recovery. This post explains more about why it is important and why a person in recovery from an eating disorder should...
How to Prepare a Person for Overshoot in Eating Disorder Recovery
Note: I have been writing and talking about "overshoot" a lot. While I used this term because it has already been established, I do not think that the term overshoot is ideal to describe the process of establishing a recovery weight. The term overshoot implies that...
Maybe All of Us Women Should Just Stop Buying Tampons
Luxury noun a state of great comfort or elegance, especially when involving great expense. There's nothing I enjoy more than a good tampon. Sometimes, when I am feeling really...
Overshoot in Eating Disorder Recovery
This blog post is going to address overshoot in eating disorder recovery. It is the first of a couple that I have lined up on this incredibly important topic. Here's the deal with overshooting your pre-eating disorder weight in recovery: you need to do it. In...
Running Hostage to an Eating Disorder
This is another section of Love Fat that I took out of the book as I rewrote it in another chapter. It is following on from the last post that I published and the topic is my obsession with running. As I have explained before, I now have a healthy relationship with...
Anorexia and Obsessive Exercise
This is another section of Love Fat that didn't make the cut. This section describes the mental anguish that I was in when my eating disorder was pushing me to exercise for a minimum of six hours every day. In the book, I have just come back from another run: ...
How Eating Disorders Ruin Relationships
Eating disorders are a bitch, and anorexia turned me into one too. In America, "candy" is what we Brits refer to as "sweets." Today I'm not writing about sweets; I'm writing about my little sister: Candice. Below is another Love Fat edit out. I cannot reliably...
Device Dependency: Longing for Less Connection
I was the kind of child who would take herself off and climb a tree, then sit there for hours completely enthralled in the sounds and creatures around me. I would study with wonder the bark patterns on the trees in the woods behind our house, or lie on my back in the...
Love Fat Editouts: Big Fat Binge Liar
This blog is another section that I edited out of Love Fat: Living at home meant that the binges were getting more frequent and bigger—basically because there was more food available. My parent's fridge was brimming with treats that the uncontrollable...
Introvert, Anti-social, or Just Plain Rude?
"Introversion? Yes, I know all about introversion, I have many friends who are introvert, in fact, I am sometimes one myself." It often surprises me how people react when I tell then that I am an introvert. It's endearing for sure, as most respond by attempting to be...
Can We Talk About the Difference Between Bring and Take?
Yesterday, a rather disturbing octothorpe was trending on Twitter: #ThingsNotToBringToAFuneral When I read that, I had to leave my desk and console myself by going to make a cup of tea. I felt low. Funerals are pretty depressing, but that had nothing to do with my...
The Modeling Industry and Anorexia
Before we get started: This post is based on my experience, and on my interpretation of the events that I experienced. It is not supposed to be a generalization of all modeling agencies, all sufferers of eating disorders or anything else for that matter. Even I am not...
Question: Does the Urge to Binge During Recovery Ever Cease?
I was asked a really good and relevant question asked by a reader this week. In response to the blog post that I wrote a while ago on the bloated fat tummy syndrome that a person in recovery from anorexia suffers, she wondered if the urge to binge eat during recovery...
Love Fat Editouts: Breastfeeding and Santa Claus
This part I took out of Love Fat because, quite frankly, I had written so much about breastfeeding already that I thought any more would boarder on creepy. Love Fat is about fat and why we should love it, and my reasoning behind including breastfeeding conversation...
Love Fat Editouts: Cooking Dinner
Love Fat is now published, and I am going through all the parts that I edited out for one reason or another and posting them in my Blog. Some things are obvious as to why the were cut out. Others, not so. This one just did not seen to fit in with the context of the...
Love Fat Editouts: Chia Seeds
Love Fat is now published, and I am going through all the parts that I edited out for one reason or another and posting them in the Blog. Some things are obvious as to why the were cut out. Others, not so. This I took out because it just didn't seem to fit in with the...
Should PTSD for Disease Exist?
I'm in England this week. I talk about The Shire—my home village—a lot in Love Fat because it is where I was most of the time when I was ill with anorexia. I don't go home often, in fact this is just the second time in five years. When I first moved to Colorado, I...
Holy Crap I Made a Book!
[schema type="book" url="tabithafarrar.com" name="Love Fat" description="A book about anorexia, eating disorders, diet culture, and the role of fat as a nutrient" author="Tabitha Farrar" isbn="0692461426" ] Published on Kindle and on Amazon...
Don’t “DIS” the Eating Disorder That Could Have Killed Me
Being the irritable type that I am, there are many things that piss me off. Some of them however, take the biscuit. Case to point: this recent campaign run by The Butterfly Foundation. What are they doing? They have a campaign up called, "Don't DIS my Appearance,"...
If Parents Cause Eating Disorders Then How the F@#k Did I Get One?
The short answer to that is: “Because they don’t”. Parents cannot, do not, cause eating disorders. Many people think that they do. I blame the psychoanalysts for this somewhat. Lets have a look at something Vanderbilt University Psychology Dept have to Say: In a...
Thinning Hair Is an Eating Disorder Effect That Recovery Can Overcome
Anorexia really wreaked my hair. When I was a child, my hair was thick and long. When I was a teenager, my hair was thick and long. When I suffered from anorexia, by hair was thin and scraggly. It didn’t happen overnight. I had anorexia for eight years before I even...
Question: Does the Urge to Binge Ever Stop?
I was asked a really good and relevant question by a reader this week. In response to the blog post that I wrote a while ago on the bloated fat tummy syndrome that a person in recovery from anorexia suffers, she wondered if the urge to binge eat during recovery ever...
Coffee Enemas
Coffee enemas are based on the antediluvian concept of autointoxication. Autointoxication is the belief that one is being poisoned by toxins because one is not digesting food properly and is not eliminating waste as one should. As I...
Foods That (Might) “Help” Your Liver Cleanse
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and I have no medical qualifications This post is not to be read and taken as a substitute for medical treatment This post was designed to be be read by adults, it may or may not contain swear words. In my opinion your liver is an...
Cleanses and the Liver
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and I have no medical qualifications- I just read a HECK of a lot of research papers. This post is not to be read and taken as a substitute for medical treatment This post was designed to be be read by adults, it may or may not contain...
Low calorie formula!?
Such hideously bad news! In a nutshell, formula companies are reducing the calorific content of formula in a response to the growing obesity problem despite the fact that existing studies show that reducing caloric density does not result in fewer calories consumed....
Ode to Fat
By Nichole Nurenberg Nichole is a friend of mine, she writes some very wise things: Truth be told, I love fat. I love the fat on my son and on other babies, in bacon, butter, on my own body, in my happy-chicken eggs, on the bodies of my neighbors and community, in...
Fat Definition, Word Origin, and Nutritional History
I have a simmering obsession with word origins. I also write about fat a lot, so it would be rude of me not to look into the word and where it came from. After that, we'll look into its rise and fall in popularity. Fat: Word Origin and Use In Old English fætt meant...
Pica
Pica Pica is characterized by an appetite for substances largely non-nutritive, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand. According to the DSM-5 criteria, to be diagnosed with Pica a person must display: Persistent eating of non-nutritive substances for a period of at...
What Ancient Mummies Teach Us About Heart Disease and Fat
Ever wonder how the ancient mummies died in the first place? I have, many times. When I was young I remember thinking the that mummies must have died of old age, because they looked so very ... old. The word “mummy” is derived from the Persian word “mumia,” referring...
Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED)
Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED) According to the DSM-5 criteria, to be diagnosed as having OSFED a person must present with a feeding or eating behaviors that cause clinically significant distress and impairment in areas of functioning, but do not...
5 reasons Anorexia is not about control.
I suffered anorexia nervosa for over eight years. In this time I was told by various people, some of them doctors, many of them concerned individuals that my eating disorder was a result of me trying to take control. And it was a convincing argument, although rather...
When Body Image and Eating Disorder Memes Do More Harm than Good
Sometimes things are posted with all the best intentions, but they can do more harm than good. An example of this is a body image meme that circulates Facebook every now and then: ...
3 things I wish everyone knew about Anorexia
See the full article as published in Mind. Body. Green here
The Fat of The Land
Link to the full article published in Elephant Journal here!
Can the nutrition of one generation can change the genetics of another?
Tweet "The environment that we are exposed to as fetuses or young children can cause permeant changes in the way our genes function" "Epigenetics" describe modifications to people's DNA that don't affect the sequence of the DNA. Physically, epigenetic changes...
My personal experience of the Modeling Industry and Anorexia.
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Warming up, over- exercising and anorexia.
Tweet Today I was reading a study by Carrera et al (2012) that looked at over exercise in anorexia and pondered whether this was a product of low body fat and feeling cold. I can see how that makes sense, one might try and rationalize a seemingly non- rational...
