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

In this third post on lapses and relapses in eating disorder recovery, the important topic of how to prevent a relapse is covered in depth.

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.

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?

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

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.

Eating disorder recovery can feel like being on a pendulum where the eating disorder pulled you one way and you swing to the other 'extreme'

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

A dive into what a moderation approach to overcoming a restrictive eating disorder and addiction to energy deficit can look like.

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?