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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....
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...
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...
How to gain weight while whole-food plant-based
It is possible to eat WFPB to gain weight. It just takes planning. Recovering while whole-food plant-based (WFPB), or on a diet...
What being recovered feels like
Being recovered from eating disorders feels great To recover, gain weight. A list of some things I no longer physically have: exercise...
My full conventional eating disorder treatment story
One of the top children's hospitals in the US treated me for anorexia when I was 17. It was family-based therapy which was not the right...
You don't have to care about your appearance to have an eating disorder
I know a lot of people after getting anorexia start attributing their weight loss to wanting to look thin. Personally, I never...
How I gained weight twice as fast as a vegan than an omnivore: my personal experience
Disclaimer: Different diets work for everyone. I am not advocating that everyone be vegan - I am just sharing my personal experience. Hi,...
How I found evolutionary psychology and Dr. Shan Guisinger
In 2019 I was at my lowest BMI ever and essentially had to spent months on bedrest. Being literally unable to do all the physical...
My Family-Based Therapy Treatment experience & plant-based doctors wo helped me recover
I cover some of this in my Eating Disorder Recovery Story interview with therapist Kiki Attonito: https://youtu.be/J0HNmUcsesM In 2016...
My experience with eating disorder therapists
I've seen a couple ED therapists throughout my life and a lot of the things they believed in and said were very unhelpful and even...
12 things I did to recover after learning about the evolutionary theory for eating disorders
I cover some of this in my Eating Disorder Recovery Story interview with therapist Kiki Attonito: https://youtu.be/J0HNmUcsesM Dr. Shan...
My 5 greatest recovery epiphanies
In essence, I learned through the Adapted to Famine hypothesis that my anorexic urges were biologically normal adaptations. I'd spent...
Summary of my eating disorder history and recovery
I cover some of this in my Eating Disorder Recovery Story interview with therapist Kiki Attonito: https://youtu.be/J0HNmUcsesM Overview...
What I ate to gain weight as a vegan
Here's how I ate to gain weight to recover from anorexia and bulimia. I ate a largely whole-food plant-based, vegan diet. I gained over...
My eating disorder post-recovery meal intake
I had anorexia nervosa and bulimia for years. Here's how I eat post-recovery versus how I ate during recovery. It helps shows people with...