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All About Restrictive Eating Disorders aka
An Addiction to Energy Deficit

The second of three posts about lapses & relapses in eating disorder recovery lists the most common signs of relapse you need to know.

Lapses, relapses & pre-lapses are part of the cycle of eating disorder recovery. But what do the terms mean & what's happening in the brain?

The powerful return of emotions when overcoming an eating disorder is one factor that makes the process so hard. This post explores more...

To overcome an eating disorder, self-empowerment in your process is critical. This post discusses what it involves and why it's important.

Eating disorders can eradicate fun in life. This post considers why fun really does matter in building your life beyond an eating disorder.

Self-identity is deeply affected by an eating disorder. Recovery means allowing in a sense of identity crisis to learn who you really are.

Many people say that recovery from an eating disorder or even that having an eating disorder is a conscious choice. Is there truth in this?

My second book, Aiming for Overshoot, is available to buy now. But why aim for overshoot when overcoming a restrictive eating disorder?

When you have an addiction to energy deficit, i.e. restrictive eating disorder, abstinence can be the most effective method to overcome it.

Overcoming an addiction to energy deficit needs you to reprogram your brain from a restrictive eating disorder but abstinence or moderation?

The withdrawal symptoms you can expect as you overcome a restrictive eating disorder and addiction to energy deficit.

With a restrictive eating disorder, it is important to understand what role rituals play in the disorder and the power they have.

Why is energy deficit so rewarding to someone with the susceptibility to develop a restrictive eating disorder?

Understanding the neuroscience of an addiction to energy deficit, aka restrictive eating disorder, using the dopamine balance model.

To understand the neuroscience of an addiction to energy deficit, you need to know about deep learning and how it relates to rewiring.

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

Introducing my book, Addicted to Energy Deficit. Your Neuroscience Based Guide to Restrictive Eating Disorders and what led me to write it.

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!

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