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 restriction and not eating. This is often not the case. Many people with Anorexia can eat seemingly...
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 I refused to eat when I had Anorexia. Sod’s law that now I am recovered and would...
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 syndrome, delayed gastric emptying, and so much more! In the podcast Dr Guadiani mentioned the following...
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 signaling are associated with disordered eating behaviors From the paper: Abstract Objective Eating...
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. “Pampering” as a restoration component of many IP systems is particularly troubling. I have actually had IP treatments...
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 description of my condition: I have had eating difficulties all my life: from the time I was weaned as a baby and fed...
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 could a fear this great have possibly had an evolutionary advantage? Find out! Support this podcast via...
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 without it hurting. I wanted to gain weight. But, I feared gaining weight, and I feared eating...![Anorexia recovery while managing a young family [Podcast]](https://tabithafarrar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Adobe-Spark-15.jpg)
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 sufferers. In this podcast Tabitha talks to an adult in recovery, Erin, about managing recovery with young...
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 is a present enough feeling for a person in recovery from Anorexia as it is — thinking that you are a...
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 forward convincing evidence for the case that Anorexia is an evolved genetic response to times of famine. A...
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 detail in this post. Energy Debt: The accumulation of the effects of long-term energy deficit such as lack of bodily...![Energy Deficit | Energy Debt | Target Weights | Weight vs State Restoration [Podcast]](https://tabithafarrar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Adobe-Spark-11.jpg)
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 weight restored? Let me tell you it is not something that you can calculate via a math equation or estimate...
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 words and my head is swimming. I’m cheating this week by not writing a blog and instead — with the...![Eating Disorders and PTSD [Podcast]](https://tabithafarrar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Adobe-Spark-10.jpg)
Eating Disorders and PTSD [Podcast]
Tabitha Farrar talks to writer, speaker, and songwriter Jenni Schaefer about her recovery from Anorexia, and subsequent experiences with PTSD. In this podcast we talk about: Hope and ACTION in eating disorder recovery Motivation to recover Trauma and...I don’t care what Lily Collins or anyone else says, there is no “safe” way to lose weight if you have Anorexia.
I don’t care what Lily Collins or anyone else says, there is no “safe” way to lose weight if you have the genetic predisposition for Anorexia. I’m so over the whole saga about the NetFlix film “To The Bone,” but very much understand...
Going Sane — exposing malpractice in the mental health industry
Lisa Sabey is the woman behind the documentary “Going Sane.” In this podcast we talk about: -Malpractice in the field of mental health -Lack of accounability and assessment -Low standards of care for patients -The importance of using evidence based...
You do not have to be thin to have Anorexia | You do not have to be thin to be underweight
All the horses in this picture are different sizes. All the horses in this picture are respected and thought of as beautiful. On Sunday I published a podcast I recorded with the wonderful Rachel Millner on the topic of Anorexia and people in larger bodies. I...
The importance of recognizing Anorexia in people in larger bodies
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr. Rachel Millner about Anorexia and people in larger bodies. This podcast was inspired by an email from a mother of a patient who has Anorexia and is in a larger body. Topics discussed include: The dangers associated...
Mental health patients do not fail treatment. Treatment fails patients.
You did not fail treatment. Treatment failed you. I lose count of how many times I say this. I had to say it again yesterday to someone who was convinced that she could not make a full recovery because she had been in and out of treatment so many times. So many failed...
Podcast: Challenging intake guidelines — Dr Graham Redgrave
Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr Graham Redgrave about the research done at Johns Hopkins looking into higher weights and a faster rate of refeeding patients with Anorexia in an inpatient hospital setting. The conversation includes: Refeeding intakes, traditional...
Anorexia Recovery: Becoming Recovery-Body Proud
Last week I wrote about The New Body Problem in Anorexia recovery. Today I am writing about the other side: becoming recovery-body proud. Here is the paradox, before I started recovery, and even when I was supposedly at a “recovered” BMI, the thought of...
Exercise Trackers, BMI, Obesity, and Anorexia Treatment
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Courtney Simpson about the work that she is doing looking at fitness tracker use amoungst people with eating disorders. We cover a lot of topics in this podcast that was originally about fitness trackers and the number of people...