Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

In this episode, which is part of a series about overcoming an eating disorder when you are in your mid or later life years, I talk about some of the specific challenges that arise from overcoming an eating disorder as a parent and the extra considerations that you will face as a result of having children.
 
My Books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
 
www.hellybarnes.com

An eating disorder will impact on your ability to have real fun in life but fun in life is so important. This episode considers why fun matters and the importance of finding more of it as you overcome an eating disorder and build yourself a life that is eating disorder free and a little more feck it and fun!
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
 

Setting eating disorder eliminating goals or new year resolutions is important in the process to overcome an eating disorder. But to achieve those bigger goals, establishing daily intentions can help you to stay focused and accountable, so that you make meaningful progress. 
My Books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
 
www.hellybarnes.com
 

Are you trying to make food decisions to find your freedom from an eating disorder and struggling each day with overthinking and anxiety?
Perhaps it is time to apply the 'Don't Think-Just Eat' approach!
My Books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com

Food decisions with an eating disorder and when overcoming one can be hard, emotional and have a lot of anxiety and overthinking attached. This episode discusses the idea that maybe you don't have to decide between different foods or food situations...
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
 
www.hellybarnes.com
 

In this episode I challenge the very common narrative in our modern Westernised culture that restrictive eating disorders are at their core driven by a fear of weight gain. I believe that this view is an oversimplified and convenient narrative that has been convenient to draw but it also prevents eating disorders being more widely understood. 
 
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
 
www.hellybarnes.com
 

This final part of the series about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, relating its findings to restrictive eating disorders, covers what the Minnesota Starvation Experiment teaches us about starvation syndrome and the physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural effects that semi-starvation alone can have on a person.
 
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
 

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment gives us the best evidence we have of what starvation can do to a person and what happens when emerging from semi-starvation.
In this episode, the experiment and its findings are compared to what can be experienced with restrictive eating disorders and recovering from one.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
 
www.hellybarnes.com

If you have a restrictive eating disorder then you need to know about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment and its findings. This experiment, carried out during the Second World War, is the most important evidence we have for the effects of hunger and starvation on a person and what happens as they 'refeed' and rehabilitate back to health.
This episode is part one of two on this topic and this post includes information about what the experiment involved and some of the key findings.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
 
www.hellybarnes.com

In this second episode of the series about overcoming an eating disorder when you are in mid or later life, I talk about the extra considerations that you need to account for when you have a partner or spouse.
A partner or spouse can be a benefit to the eating disorder recovery process but there are also challenges that can come too. It is also important to remember the impact that the eating disorder and the process to overcome it has on your partner or spouse.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
 
www.hellybarnes.com