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 science is too immature to really know how and when the body uses energy and for what. In recovery from...
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 approaches and this leads to inadequate intake prescriptions and target weights that do not serve individuals in...
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 followed closely by, “how do I find the motivation to recover?” or “how does he/she find...