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I have starved myself, binged and also have had exercise bulimia. I am recovering well, and am learning to take care of myself. I am becoming beter at balancing fitness, health and having fun in life. I desire my blog to be inspiring ...

“But this 'trade-off' mentality is the foundation of exercise bulimia.” Sure, working out is important. But it's also important to see both exercise and eating as two healthy parts of your life—not as one canceling out the other. ...

“But this 'trade-off' mentality is the foundation of exercise bulimia.” Sure, working out is important. But it's also important to see both exercise and eating as two healthy parts of your life—not as one canceling out the other. ...

Has suffered from anorexia, exercise bulimia and suppression and had even got down to 85 pounds until she received help at age 17. She likes to write poetry. Her favorite food is strawberries. Posted by mazhar's net at 8:43 AM ...

Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist. This is a real, raw, brutally honest account of one girl's journey through anorexia and exercise bulimia recovery...and learning to appreciate Life's little imperfections along the way. ...

Nonpurging bulimia: You use other methods to rid yourself of calories and prevent weight gain, such as fasting or overexercising, which is sometimes called exercise bulimia. Causes of Bulimia. Experts agree that cultural factors are ...

this book is pretty amazing. i already feel a sense of empowerment. hansen is not a medical professional and never claims to be one but she solved her binge eating and bulimia (in her case exercise bulimia…like me! ...

@BinkieMcFartnuggets I'm not arguing with you but exercise bulimia is not just about overexercising – the exercise is a way of purging calories that are eaten during binges. Overexercising on its own is just compulsive exercise or ...

Nonpurging bulimia: You use other methods to rid yourself of calories and prevent weight gain, such as fasting or overexercising, which is sometimes called exercise bulimia. Causes of Bulimia. Experts agree that cultural factors are ...

With most eating related issues such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, exercise bulimia, and other disordered eating patterns, there are usually underlying issues that are causing these to occur. The eating disorder is the symptom of ...

Neglected to post this sooner: The London Times ran a story about me and my book last Sunday. You can read it here.

I just read Jenni Schaefer's first entry on her new Huffington Post blog, and it rang so true for me. After the hard work of recovery, the eating disorder becomes a thing of the past. For people like Jenni and myself who work in this field and talk/write/educate about eating disorders on a daily basis, you might think we haven't really left it behind. But, in fact, we have.

I signed up recently for Twitter and connected with others tweeting and scheming about eating disorders. The environment is very positive and pro-recovery, but I noticed something: everyone is writing about eating disorders! I was initially tweeting about, like, what my baby was doing, but after a few days I thought, geez, I really should be posting things about eating disorders like everyone else!

Then it hit me: I'm recovered. My life is full of many other things, namely baby and husband, but also friends, yoga, housework, the garden, poetry and so on...and while I'm passionate about my work, don't get me wrong, I'm a lot less interested in talking about eating disorders in my free time.

with Victoria on Easter

When you're truly recovered, the relationship to food changes, too. In early recovery I thought everyone who was thin had an eating disorder. Anyone who ate a salad at lunch? Eating disorder. Anyone who said no to dessert? Eating disorder. Anyone who went to the gym? You guessed it, eating disorder. I once even questioned my dietitian because I ran into her at a frozen yogurt joint. Why are you eating frozen yogurt instead of ice cream?? I couldn't imagine making that choice, then, for any reason OTHER than because it has fewer calories!

I shake my head and laugh about this now. Being recovered from anorexia does not mean you have to eat hamburgers and milkshakes every day. When I was working toward recovery, I felt compelled to prove that I didn't care anymore, so I'd order dessert after ever meal even if I was stuffed, and was defiant against specifying any food preferences, as a way of saying, Hey world, I don't have anorexia anymore! Look at me!

Now I don't care what people think of me, and the practice of intuitive eating, when you're recovered, really becomes just that: intuitive. It's thoughtless. Body, what do you want to eat? and the answer, Hmm...salmon, I really want salmon. And pasta and asparagus. And gingerale. is not a deliberate practice for me any longer: it's a split second, intuitive process.

I teach it as a deliberate action, though, because sometimes you have to train yourself before it becomes a natural part of living. I worked for years to ask my body, Body, what do you want to eat? and took the time to let her answer me. Now, it's ingrained. And while I do eat hamburgers and milkshakes sometimes, it's not every day.

Every day looks like this now: three changes of shirts because of baby spit-up all over my shoulder, talking on the phone while I walk in the sunshine, a yoga class if I'm lucky enough to have childcare, and reading before bed. I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm making the choice to really live.