Tag: binge eating disorder recovery
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A Family Christmas
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know I’m in Australia at the moment. I’m here staying with relatives. Later this week, my parents will be joining us, and I will be celebrating my first family Christmas since I began my recovery journey. Christmas isn’t actually the reason I’m here. I travelled all…
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On ultra processed foods.
Let’s talk ultra processed foods from an eating disorder lived experience perspective. I’ve recently heard talk about how the vast majority of binge foods for people with an eating disorder are ultra processed foods, and that they may be to blame for the rise in eating disorder presentation. Now I can’t comment on the statistics,…
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It’s been a year!
On 24th July, 2021, I wrote the post “I binged today. Here’s what I learned.” At the time, it didn’t cross my mind that I’d go a whole year without a full-on, painful, BED-style binge. Yet here we are, in August 2022, and I haven’t binged like that since. There were so many points where…
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Two unlikely tools that helped my eating disorder recovery.
Looking back, way back to the beginning, I am starting to see how my eating disorder began. I’m starting to realise the functions that bingeing served. Because bingeing, and all eating disorder behaviours, happen for a reason. They serve a purpose. Even if we don’t realise it at the time. For me, two purposes of…