The Blog
All About Restrictive Eating Disorders aka
An Addiction to Energy Deficit

Eating disorder recovery is long and hard, making it easy to lose motivation. This post provides a simple tool that can help you keep going.

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

An eating disorder can make you feel like life is happening to you and give a victim mindset. But why not be the hero of your story instead?

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

Setting eating disorder eliminating goals is very important to overcome an eating disorder but daily intentions can help to achieve them.

When you are struggling to make food decisions in order to overcome an eating disorder, try applying the 'Don't Think - Just Eat' approach.

When overcoming an eating disorder, food decisions can feel overwhelming. But what if you don’t actually have to decide?

Relating the Minnesota Starvation Experiment results to what it is to have a restrictive eating disorder and the process to overcome one.

Eat to gain weight and eat to gain your life back when you overcome a restrictive eating disorder. This post explains why and how!

Anger is a forceful and valid emotion and can be powerful if directed in the right direction when you are overcoming an eating disorder.

Having a restrictive eating disorder and overcoming one will affect your poop and digestion. Tips to cope with these symptoms are provided.

Eating disorders and the ability of the brain to develop an addiction to energy deficit have an evolutionary explanation, explained here.

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

A post to make you aware of risks from refeeding syndrome and the physical effects to overcoming a restrictive eating disorder you may face.

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

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

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.