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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.

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

It's time to get real about 'quasi-recovery' and eating disorders… it's a state of being 'highly functional' with an active eating disorder.

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?

This post challenges the view that restrictive eating disorders are primarily a fear of weight gain & provides an alternative explanation.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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