How to be kind to yourself during eating disorder recovery is one of the most crucial things to learn and practice. How is your relationship with yourself can either help you to recover or it can even stop you from recovering. Sometimes nothing really is keeping us from recovering more than our own attitude and thoughts. “You are …
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In my recovery I used both the MinnieMaud calorie guidelines and intuitive eating to achieve full recovery from my eating disorders (bulimia and orthorexia). I will say they both have their positive and negative aspects for recovery and different things work for different people. I have prevously talked about the MinnieMaud calorie guidelines for the …
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If you have been through yo-yo dieting, crash dieting or even eating disorders you may realise that you need to let go of restriction, eat more calories, exercise less (or even stop completely), and rest more to fully recover and come out of the burned-out state. This, however, may freak you out a little, understandably. …
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1. Please introduce yourself, who are you and what do you do? My name is Awonke Nondabula from South Africa. I am 22 years old. I am doing my third year at the university studying the bachelor of Education and I used to have binge eating disorder, bulimia and a bit of anorexia.
The first time I read about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment I was amazed to see how many similarities these participants experienced regarding eating disorders. This experiment is one of the best examples to show us what happens when we restrict foods and how our body reacts to starvation. In this post, I want to show …
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Having an eating disorder can, unfortunately, often mean that many girls and women lose their period. Their reproductive hormones stop working properly since the body is not getting an adequate amount of energy and nutrition. This can mean you lose your ability to have a baby, but also that your body will suffer from serious …
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Today’s post will be full of inspiration, encouragement, and proof that recovery works and is 100% worth it! The following interview is with Alena, one of the authors behind the successful plant-based website Nutriciously.com. Her story illustrates so beautifully how our body, hunger cues and cravings finally balance out once we learn to trust our …
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In eating disorder recovery, it is very important to learn to love and accept your body at any size. It’s highly likely that your weight will do all sort of crazy stuff in recovery. You may gain weight rapidly and it seems indefinite. You feel extremely bloated and gain many kilos of water weight in a matter …
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For me, the major shift towards recovery came when I realized that my urges to binge were not simply an emotional problem or me trying to fill a “void” in my life by stuffing my face with food. The binges weren’t a coping mechanism or a response to some “unresolved emotional issues” I needed to fix. …
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We see it in the diet industry – “Lose 10 pounds in 10 days!”, “Get trim, toned and sexy in 4 weeks!”, Lose that belly fat once and for all by doing a 1-week juice-cleanse!”. And we think: “Oh! If I could lose 10 pounds I would finally be happy! If I would weigh X …
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