Do you feel like you are constantly walking on eggshells, afraid of gaining weight? Afraid to enjoy food because you fear you might gain weight from it? Afraid you will never stop gaining weight? Afraid that you will gain all the weight back? But… why are we afraid of gaining […]
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Feeling Gassy and bloated all the time?
Feeling gassy and bloated after a meal or even throughout the day is super uncomfortable and can literally ruin any trip. However being bloated whilst coming from an restrictive eating disorder is normal. Let´s talk bout it all.
BED – the eating disorder with the most sufferers
Even though anorexia is the most popular eating disorder, it is aestimated that arounf 4% of the people between 20 and 30 are suffering from binge eating disorder (BED). Read here about the whole clinical picture.
Do you feel trapped in the binge purge cycle?
Bingeing is not only a symptom of binge eating. Binge episodes can also occur in anorexia and especially in bulimia. Here I am going to explain why this happens and how understanding the binge purge cycle can help you to break out of it.
set point weight theory – why gaining weight made me feel the best
Why is it, that even when we all ate and worked about the same, we would still not look the same – and especially feel the same? Why do some people gain more weight in recovery than others? And how much of our weight management is actually in our control?
“what I eat in a day” helpful or harmful?
They are EVERYWHERE: what I eat in a day -, people filming themselves putting every single bite they take in their mouth and millions of people watching them daily! Read here about the helpful parts and the more dangerous ones.
Extreme hunger explained
Extreme hunger can be found as very upsetting and disturbing in eating disorder recovery. But it actually is just a natural response to a period of famine. It means your body is healing – which is why I prefer to talk about a healing hunger. Learn, what it feels like, where it comes from and how to heal it.
All food is good food
Labeling food as good or bad is usually justified on the basis of the nutritional quality of a certain food. It might seem quite reasonablee at first glance, but let’s have a second look on this approach: – all foods have nutritional value (yes, even sugar and fats! Sugar are […]