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All About Restrictive Eating Disorders aka
An Addiction to Energy Deficit

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

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.

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

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.

Christmas can be a very anxiety provoking time for a person in recovery from an eating disorder. This post provides tips to help cope.

This post discusses fear reactions in eating disorder recovery and 'hacks' to use to adjust your physiology, overcoming the fear reaction.

In this post I offer 40 tips to help anyone in eating disorder recovery address lingering restriction in their eating.

Feelings and thoughts of 'greed' are so common to people in eating disorder recovery. But are these thoughts and feelings ever appropriate?

This is a post I wrote over on my Recovering Nomad blog, which some of you might find helpful, if you have not already seen it. In the...

Learning to rest and relax in eating disorder recovery is a skill that is very much needed. This post offers some tools to help the process

When I started my recovery journey after around 13 years with an eating disorder, I started to document it, initially on Instagram but...

It is useful to understand some of the basic principles of neuroplasticity when recovering from an eating disorder. This post explains more!