Hypermetabolism in eating disorders
Recovery from an eating disorder isn’t as simple as aiming for a set calorie amount. Hypermetabolism in eating disorders is when the metabolism overshoots.
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Challenging unhelpful thinking styles around food
How to challenge unhelpful beliefs using the pie chart technique. Sometimes we all have unhelpful thoughts, in eating disorder recovery these can often be related to food.
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Why 1200 kcal isn’t enough
Many diets prescribe just 1200 kcal as the maximum daily intake, but this really isn’t enough. Read on for how this affects metabolism and more
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What are your food rules?
Huge thanks to Shannon Western for her help with this post. Food rules keep us stuck trying to change our body, or put judgements onto other people’s food choices. They are diet culture’s best friend- a really important step in stopping dieting and wishing to change your body is rejecting food rules. Here is a
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Breaking free from food rules.
Food rules can keep us stuck in diets, so one big step is working out how to overcome these mindsets. Many thanks to Shannon Western for her help with this post. How do you describe food? Our attitude to food is really important and can determine if our relationship with food is healthy or not.
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Eating Disorders: Prevention is better than cure
Eating disorders are a mean, cruel illness. Once seen to be a disease of affluence, there are now so many reasons an eating disorder can begin. The roots can be due to trauma, family issues, relationship problems, low self esteem, bullying, loneliness and wanting to fit in, a desire to be healthy, a need to
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Boosting your nutritional intake – the healthy way to weight gain.
I work in the topsy turvy world that is eating disorders. Most of the media focus, food manufacturers, shops and nutrition business is on how to lose weight…. whilst I work with people on how to gain or maintain their weight. Gaining weight may sound like it is easy to do… but it often isn’t. You
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