During our illnesses, Laura and I have both at some point experienced exercise addiction. Exercise addiction often comes hand in hand with an eating disorder; be it to burn calories, change the way your body […]
Category: Recovery
Ella’s story on ‘recovery’
Hopefully you will already be aware that this week has been national Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and if you follow the blog, you’ll already have read Laura’s inspirational article about her recovery and eating disorders […]
We don’t give a gap!
Gone are the days of the thigh gap trend which reigned social media…hoorah! No longer is it about striving to get a mere centimeter between your legs and being able to fit into the smallest skinny […]
What to expect during recovery…
Deciding you’re ready to start recovery and wave goodbye to your anorexia is such a big step and a difficult one to make. Holding onto your illness is pretty normal as, after living with it for […]
Dealing with post anorexic binging
Bouts of binging is an extremely common problem for people coming out of recovery from anorexia- think about it, you’ve starved your body for years, and now that you’re finally comfortable eating all foods again, […]
From just living to LIVING
Ella’s 21st birthday (2012) – masking insecurities and illnesses with fake hair, fake smiles and too much make up Fast forward to 2016 (minus the Oompa Loompa) – face gains, happiness gains and BOOB gains!
Reasons to change
So, you’ve realised you have a problem, but you don’t know where to start. What helped us most in the first steps of our recovery was ask ourselves “What are my reasons to change? What […]
