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8-week online course to end your extreme hunger
Hi friends! I want to share this online course my friend Liv at livlabelfree.com created. I've reviewed this course and think it can help...
Eat as much as you want, for life
Written to a client: As a person eating to purposefully gain weight, have the opportunity now to eat AS MUCH as you want and have that...
The key to a faster, healthier metabolism: Eat more
Your metabolism is slow just out of being underweight. All underweight people who are restricting food have slowed metabolisms, because...
You need to decrease physical & mental stress in order to get your period
Written to a client about the importance of decreasing stress, reducing exercise, and eating more fat in order to get a period: The most...
Don't take birth control to get your period back
Taking birth control to get on your period does NOT actually give you the elevated female hormones you need to protect your brain, bones,...
How to stimulate your hunger/appetite, if you need to eat but aren't hungry
Add spices. Vary up your food - try foods you haven't tried before. Combine foods. Add FAT to your foods, the most healthy macromolecule...
The healthiest diets in the longest-living people ALL have added fat
I was talking to a client who tries to follow a no-added fat diet. Those diets are just bonkers. If we look at the Blue Zones (areas with...
Get your period back sooner by eating more fat
Period restoration is one of the important markers of eating disorder recovery. It can help some clients to know that if they eat more...
Eat oil to recover the fastest
I've written other articles about why I started eating oil to recover, even though I was following an other whole food plant-based diet....
Motivational statements to recover
Here's some general motivation for those in recovery. Remember: Progress over perfection. Fighting anorexia is really hard. It’s okay to...
Restrictive routines are pleasure traps
The Pleasure Trap is a concept coined by Dr. Doug Lisle and Dr. Alan Goldhamer. I wrote this to a client, familiar with the pleasure trap...
How to stop feeling guilty about eating
Feeling guilty about eating is an adaptive mechanism in anorexics. Dr. Shan Guisinger's adaptedtofamine.com and upcoming eating disorder...
You can't recover eating just vegetables and fruits
In summary: Don't eat just vegetables and fruits to recover. In fact, eating an excessive amount of fruit (more than 3 servings per day)...
Edema: Swelling during weight recovery is normal
When a person begins to eat more finally, they may experience increased bloating and even edema. Edema is swelling caused by excess fluid...
Exercise doesn't burn calories AND hurts those who under-eat
We burn about the same number of calories daily no matter our activity level. This is why diets fail and exercise doesn't help one lose...
Eating disorders impair sexual function
Aka why if you have an eating disorder you have no more sex drive Wondering why you don't have sexual feelings for others anymore, or...
Why people mistakingly love their eating disorders
Anorexia makes people abuse themselves and enjoy it. Anorexia is a seductive illness. It is one of the few illnesses which makes people...
Many animals get anorexia, helping explain why anorexia is an evolutionary adaptation
Video transcript of: https://youtu.be/AycEOZ3YQHQ Today, I'll be taking you on a world tour and talking about lots of animals. This will...
Eating disorder recovery: Understand & treat with Dr. Shan Guisinger's approach
Transcript for this video: https://youtu.be/_rHLIVfNex0 Hi, I’m Michelle Cen. I had a life-threatening eating disorder for 5 years. I...
Care for yourself like you'd care for others
A conversation between my client and I, as she said she'd go on a walk with her puppy. Me: Would you restrict your puppy’s food until...