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I have been following a ‘prescribed’ meal plan since commencing treatment for anorexia 18 weeks ago. I was more than a little resistant initially for various reasons: I didn’t need a meal plan because I wasn’t anorexic of course, I know how to eat I just wasn’t doing so, I know what constitutes a balanced… Read more
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I painted a plate a couple of weeks ago. I had a lovely time doing so with some of my fellow patients from my treatment programme. It had been a ‘mindful’ social get together where we painted a pottery item of our choice whilst chatting and incorporating our ‘prescribed’ morning snack and drink. I chose… Read more
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It makes sense that many of the thoughts, emotions and physical symptoms associated with anorexia are the result of the body going into ‘starvation mode’. In primitive times when food was scarce, it would be beneficial for a caveman’s thoughts to be preoccupied with food to motivate him to hunt. Numbing his emotions would maintain… Read more
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Hand on heart, chocolate digestives are up there with the greatest of my discoveries from the last three months. Only the dark ones mind you, the gingerbread ones at Christmas didn’t quite hit the same spot. I have also learned that I did have anorexia, and that I have been battling it to varying degrees… Read more
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