Five unusual facts about living with anorexia that most people don’t realise. There is a lot that people don’t know about anorexia. Some will know the more well-known side effects such as hair loss, osteoporosis, and feeling cold. But there is so much that people don’t realise. Anorexia effects every part of someone’s life and …
I am just going to put it out there – I am scared of lockdown ending and life going back to normal. Early last year I was desperate for Covid to disappear and life to go back to how it was. The tragic loss of lives was terrifying, and the fact mine and everyone else’s …
I have seen a lot on social media recently about “Full in Recovery”. That supposedly meaning throwing yourself completely into full on eating disorder recovery and committing 100% to total recovery. Great if that works for you. But it won’t work for everybody. And I think portraying “Full in recovery” as the best option for …
Follow my blog with Bloglovin It is 4am and I have not been to sleep yet. I have to get up in less than three hours to go to work. I roll over in my bed in the hope that at some point soon, I will fall asleep. This is a daily situation for me …
There is often stigma around medication for mental illness. If the doctor prescribed you antibioitics for an infection, many people would not have any reluctance to take them, or talk about the fact that they were taking them. But medication for mental illness is often, for some reason, thought of differently. People can feel reluctant …
I have been very quick to write off this year. What a shocker. There is a post going round social media saying that people are soon going to start telling you what they have achieved in 2020 but that simply surviving 2020 is the most important achievement. In essence this is true. I did not …
I don’t think anybody really likes gaining weight. You hear it all the time – people moaning about the fact that they have gained weight. People generally feel a bit crappy if they gain weight. But in anorexia recovery weight gain feels horrific. There is no way to flower this up or make it seem …
I speak a lot about eating disorders. I have suffered from anorexia since I was 13, although was not officially diagnosed until I was 19. It has had the biggest effect on my life more than anything else. So that is why I speak a lot about it. But what I don’t speak about as …
Everyone faces different challenges with their eating disorder recovery. There are always certain eating disorder rules that people feel they have to follow. Examples of rules include those around exercise obsession, trying new food, not counting calories or weighing out food, meal times, eating out. The list really is endless. In recovery, it is really …
A pretty inevitable fact of anorexia recovery is that you will end up growing out of small clothes. I feel this topic of clothes becoming too small for you, isn’t really talked about that much as you are going through it. So much of the focus of anorexia recovery is on weight gain and helping …
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The reality of anorexia The beginning It’s break time at school and you and your friends are scrolling through Instagram. You are bombarded with stunningly beautiful celebrities. A friend says she’s going on a diet, so your other friends say they are too. “We can go to the gym together – It’ll be fun,” they …
I have a tendency to compare myself to other people. Well, I say I have tendency but it’s not really. It is more of a compulsion – I do it so often that to me, it feels like I am genetically hard-wired to compare myself to others. I don’t really chose to do it, I …