Stories of Eating Disorder Recovery: Eat Foods that "Don't Count"

Unplanned Food Exposures: One thing that made a huge difference in my recovery from restricting, and I now teach my clients, was to eat foods I couldn’t count.

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Stories of Eating Disorder Recovery: Learning to Trust My Body

That is something that I would go back and tell myself a couple years ago when first starting recovery. With diet culture being as pervasive as it is, the message that our bodies are in constant need of fixing is creating a collective distrust among the inherent wisdom we hold. Trusting our bodies has become an abstract and strange concept.

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Stories of Eating Disorder Recovery: Changing Your Environment

Changing my environment and finding a community that supported me (as I am) definitely helped me in the final stages of my recovery. This community included individuals on social media, in my workplace, in my personal life… but also me. I am the most important individual in the community that supports me.

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Weight Loss Is Not the Answer: A Well-being Solution to the “Obesity Problem”

“Comprehensive reviews of the scientific evidence find mixed, weak, and sometimes contradictory evidence for intentional weight loss. We suggest that a different solution to the “obesity problem” is needed – a solution that acknowledges both the multifaceted nature of health and the complex interaction between person and situation that characterizes the connection between weight and health.”

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Do No Harm & Unpacking Weight Science

“Sustained weight loss of greater than 5% of body weight is rare. Even when people adhere to strict, high-volume exercise, weight loss varies. Both in naturalistic, longitudinal samples and in randomized controlled trials, various weight-loss efforts and strategies lead to long-term weight gain.”

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Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift

“Randomized controlled clinical trials indicate that a HAES approach is associated with statistically and clinically relevant improvements in physiological measures (e.g., blood pressure, blood lipids), health behaviors (e.g., eating and activity habits, dietary quality), and psychosocial outcomes (such as self-esteem and body image).”

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Intuitive Eating's Proven Benefits

Studies on intuitive eating show that intuitive eating promotes positive improvements in eating habits, body image, improved self-esteem, and an overall better quality of life.

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Having trouble with the "love your body" message? That’s okay. Start with Body Appreciation.

Going from body hate to body acceptance is tough. It can seem nearly impossible. So where do we start if these concepts feel so far out off reach and accepting our body feels so far away? Start by practicing body gratitude.

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Sports Nutrition- Are you adequately fueling your activity?

If you do any type of quick search of the term “sports nutrition”, you’ll probably find: someone talking about cutting macros, protein powder, and gym selfies with said protein powder in hand while talking about cutting macros. When I think of sports nutrition, I think of something totally different… I think of rejuvenation. I think of recovery.

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A Recovery Story- Making the Conscious Decision to Listen to Your True, Authentic Self

This is my recovery journey. It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t easy, but it was one-hundred percent worth it. There were days when I just wanted to quit and there were days when I actually did. But the difference between recovering and not is making the conscious decision to listen to your true, authentic self or to your eating disorder, and this decision means everything.

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Neuroplasticity and How Rewiring is Important to Recovery

One of the toughest parts of recovery is the process of changing those strong automatic eating disorder thoughts…those thoughts that can keep us stuck and that make eating disorder recovery so hard. How can you change these thoughts that feel almost unchangeable? Is it even possible?