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All About Restrictive Eating Disorders aka
An Addiction to Energy Deficit

What specific issues might you face if you are overcoming an eating disorder as a parent? Part of a series on eating disorders in mid life.

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

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

Overcoming an eating disorder in your mid or later life and when you have a partner or spouse to consider can bring benefits and challenges.

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!

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

Restrictive eating disorders don't have a size. They are in fact more common in people who are not 'underweight' by BMI than those who are..

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

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?

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

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.

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.