Binge eating Archives - Eating Disorder Recovery for Adults

Eating Disorder Recovery Questions: How do I know if I want more food?

I get asked this question a lot — by clients, via email, via Youtube — and it is one that tripped my up from time to time in my own recovery. Until, one day, I realised that there is one simple answer: If you are asking the question, “how do I know if I want...

Response to podcast on why eating disorder treatment fails people

I thought I would share a treatment story that a listener to the Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast sent me recently. I am writing you in reply to your podcast on eating disorder treatment failures and your question to share experiences as an adult having been to...

You can’t fight your biology and win. Your body’s only agenda is health.

Restrictive eating disorders are like a mental autoimmune disease. In the respect that you literally attack yourself. For years I lived as if my body was the enemy. The enemy, and one that had this secret hidden agenda to do … I don’t know what. Gain...

Eating disorder treatment professionals: Stop telling people “binge” eating is bad

I’ve written about binge/feast eating many times before. There is a whole chapter in my book about it. I’m still going to keep blogging about this frequently as it is a message that I’m passionate about. I believe the the misunderstanding about...

Emotional Eating [Podcast]

In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks about emotional eating, and why it isn’t really a thing Transcript with thanks to Marie: Hello welcome to this week’s podcast. This week I’m going to talk about emotional eating. But first of all, I’m going to...

“My therapist was more scared of my weight gain than I was …” and other recovery stories

This blog is a collection of things that people have told me — unedited — in the last couple of weeks. This collection circles around what I see to be one of the primary problems with eating disorder treatment: Professionals reinforcing the very fears that the eating...