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All About Restrictive Eating Disorders aka
An Addiction to Energy Deficit

Restrictive eating disorders can be considered to be a brain based addiction to the state of energy deficit. But what does this really mean?

Restrictive eating disorders create a scarcity mindset which impact on behaviours related to food, money spending & even lead to stealing.

A pre mortem is a tool to use in eating disorder recovery to predict how a recovery situation might go wrong to help ensure it goes right!

A personal post in which I share a journal entry made at a point in the process to overcome an eating disorder when I wanted to give up.

Weight gain while still restricting or compensating as you attempt to overcome an eating disorder feels unjustified. Escape this scenario!

Commitments in the process of overcoming an eating disorder can be hard to keep. If-Then Plans can help pin your commitments to real life

Extreme hunger when overcoming an eating disorder can be frightening and extreme! These are some first hand experiences of how it can look.

What does a tug of war between a person in recovery and an eating disorder look like and what does it look like to walk away from the games?

Eating disorder recovery feels like a tug of war between the person in recovery & the eating disorder. But it doesn't have to be this way!

Hunger is controlled by the brain and body in a range of different processes. What happens differently in eating disorders to this?

Hunger can manifest in physical ways but also mentally, emotionally and in behaviour. This post discusses all the ways hunger can appear.

Christmas can be a very anxiety provoking time for a person in recovery from an eating disorder. This post provides tips to help cope.

This post provides 11 tips to help you keep eating in eating disorder recovery even if you have a low (perceived!) appetite.

It is hard to keep eating in eating disorder recovery when you feel physically full. This post explains why you need to keep eating anyway.

This post discusses fear reactions in eating disorder recovery and 'hacks' to use to adjust your physiology, overcoming the fear reaction.

Eating disorder recovery is a difficult process that constantly evolves as your needs to ensure ultimate freedom change through the process.

Eating disorder recovery is the most important project you will ever do. Therefore, approach it with the 5 stages of project management!

In this post I offer 40 tips to help anyone in eating disorder recovery address lingering restriction in their eating.

Restriction in eating disorder recovery can manifest in many different ways. This post provides a list of some of the most common.

Feelings and thoughts of 'greed' are so common to people in eating disorder recovery. But are these thoughts and feelings ever appropriate?