Dealing with EXTREME HUNGER in Eating Disorder Recovery

0:00 Introduction & Background
5:28 How I Dealt with Extreme Hunger: 3 Tips
5:39 Tip 1: Understanding Extreme Hunger
7:40 Tip 2: Unconditional Permission to Eat
9:28 Tip 3: Using Nutrition to My Advantage

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I experienced EXTREME HUNGER in my eating disorder recovery. I never felt full! Extreme hunger is actually very common for those recovering from a restrictive eating disorder such as anorexia, or those who have been restricting their food intake through strict dieting. I felt extreme hunger even after I started binge eating because I was still heavily restricting in addition to my binges.

For a long time, I didn’t understand what extreme hunger was or how it related to eating disorders and eating disorder recovery. I thought the constant hunger I felt was something everyone experienced! I thought I would have to just deal with my extreme hunger.

But after a lot of research and trial and error, I was able to combat my extreme hunger by understanding it on a rational level, allowing myself full permission to eat whatever and whenever I wanted and to eat to complete satiety, and using my knowledge of nutrition to my advantage. I stopped cutting out foods, I broke my eating disorder food rules, and I began to honor my cravings and feed my body to satiety. Over time, my body began trusting me to feed it and its fear of starvation decreased. I no longer deal with intense extreme hunger. It took a lot of time to get over this aspect of my eating disorder, but I’m so glad I have.

Resources:
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) helpline
1-800-931-2237 (they also offer click-to-chat messaging)
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

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I thought my eating disorder would control my life forever. I didn’t think eating disorder recovery was possible. For years I lacked eating disorder recovery motivation. I struggled with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating for years. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t find anorexia recovery, bulimia recovery, or binge eating disorder recovery. I had extreme hunger in my eating disorder recovery. I had constant hunger from my anorexia and restrictive eating disorder. I didn’t know what is extreme hunger. I didn’t have extreme hunger tips or know how to deal with extreme hunger. I didn’t understand the difference between extreme hunger vs binge eating. Over time I learned about all in eating disorder recovery. All in ed recovery was a lifesaver. All in eating disorder recovery allowed my to finally fix my extreme hunger from anorexia. I’m not fully recovered from my eating disorder yet. I still struggle with binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia. I still restrict my food sometimes. But I’m well on my journey of eating disorder recovery. If you need eating disorder recovery motivation, here it is! Let’s go! Let’s recover from our eating disorders together.

Видео Dealing with EXTREME HUNGER in Eating Disorder Recovery канала Kristi Michelle