The BED Post

The Binge Eating Disorder Recovery blog

  • COVID, anxiety, and floating

    October 10th 2021. World Mental Health Day. I leave the house and go to a local event. Have a great time. Make plans to see friends again soon. The sun is shining and I’m feeling good about getting back to “normality”. One day later, October 11th. I go to my first face to face external…

  • Burnout

    I’ve been absent from social media for a little while. This post explains why. Basically, my real, offline, life has has been taking all I have to give lately. Today has been a pretty good day. I’ve started a week of annual leave, met up with a friend, and accomplished a couple of tasks I…

  • Breaking my silence

    This week marks a year since I finally had THAT conversation with my mother. The one where I finally told her the secret I had kept for forty years… I told my parents about my diagnosis of BED a few years ago, when I started treatment. We had a few conversations about what it involved,…

  • Sunshine through the rain

    I’ve been crying a lot lately. So much that I even caught myself crying on camera. But the shocking thing to me is not that I cried. It’s that I allowed the camera to keep rolling, then posted it online. I pushed myself so far out of my comfort zone that I showed my vulnerability,…

  • Short letter, long words

    I had an MRI a few weeks back to help figure out what is causing my pain. This week, I received a very short letter with the results. It was full of long words I didn’t understand. Words I wasn’t expecting. Scary words: disc protrusion, stenosis, foraminal narrowing. The second paragraph talked about pain, and…

  • Blame

    “It’s your fault!”Words spat at me,Twisted mouth,Finger pointing:“It’s all your fault!” What’s my fault?Daring to exist?Being born?Being conceived?What is my fault? What’s my fault?That you go out?Drink too much?Throw things at us?Is that my fault? What’s my fault?Being a kidIn a lifeI didn’t choose?That’s not my fault. It’s yours.

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Welcome to the BED Post!

This site and its contents are based on 4 decades of lived experience with an eating disorder, and the long and difficult journey to recovery.

Here at the BED Post, we welcome anyone wanting to know more about Binge Eating Disorder and eating disorders in bigger bodies. People with higher BMI make up the vast majority of eating disorder sufferers, in direct contradiction to the image portrayed by the mainstream media.

We aim to support and advocate for this majority, raise awareness, and challenge the weight stigma faced by those suffering from an eating disorder in a bigger body.

And last, but by no means least, we want to bring hope that eating disorder recovery is possible. Because with the right treatment and support, it truly is.

Sharon

Blogger and eating disorder campaigner