The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

Treatment Stories: Being shamed for wanting more food

In this podcast you will hear an audio recording of an account of a treatment facility from a person in recovery. 

The scale: To weigh or not to weigh in recovery

In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to Bridget Whitlow about weighing in recovery

 

Bridget Whitlow, MS, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist that provides psychotherapy for adolescent and adult individuals, couples, families, and groups. Bridget has clinical expertise in the treatment of anxiety, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, LGBTQ, and self-criticism. To learn more about her

please visit: http://www.bridgetwhitlow.com/about/

HAES Series: Going deep with Deb Burgard

Deb Burgard, PhD, FAED* is a psychologist and activist from the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in concerns about body image, eating, weight stigma, and relationships. She is also one of the founders of the Health at Every Size(r) model, the original BodyPositive.com website, and the Show Me the Data listserv, building communities where people can find each other and the resources to resist weight stigma, especially in medical and psychological treatment.  Her activism includes working with healthcare providers to integrate an understanding of the social determinants of health and creating interventions that address structural oppression and support stigma resistance.  She can be found at conferences sparking impromptu dance parties in the pool. 

 

Fellow, Academy for Eating Disorders

 

Links: 

 

Poodle Science video                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H89QQfXtc-k

Review of HAES lit paper:          https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobe/2014/983495/

 

 www.sizediversityandhealth.org The Association for Size Diversity and Health.

 

"What Is Wrong with the War on Obesity?"   http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018772888

Rebecca Scritchfield 2018: Body Kindness and postpartum body image

 

 

Rebecca Scritchfield is a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified exercise physiologist, author of the book Body Kindness, and host of the Body Kindness podcast. Through her weight-inclusive counseling practice, she helps people make peace with food, find the joy in exercise, and create a better life with workable goals that fit individual interests. Central to all her work, Rebecca aims to develop self-compassion in place of shame by rejecting the rules of diet culture and the pervasive myth that to achieve better health one must lose weight.

 

Using her Body Kindness philosophy, Rebecca mentors registered dietitians and supports women from around the world in collaborative, online learning spaces free from unhelpful diet chatter and negative body talk. 

 

Rebecca has influenced millions through her writing, podcast, and appearances in over 100 media outlets including NBC Nightly News, CNN, the TODAY show, the Washington Post, O Magazine, Self, Real Simple, Health, Yoga Journal, and many others. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she was recently recognized as one of ten “Supermom” entrepreneurs in the Nation’s Capital. 

 

LINKS:

 

Postpartum Body Image Research Study: Body Kindness Reader Survey with option for free Body Kindness e-book

https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/research/

 

Free Body Kindness E-Course, Book Chapter

https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/get-started/

 

Articles: 

Whole 30 

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2018-05-18/this-nutritionists-manifesto-against-the-whole30-will-shake-your-view-of-healthy-eating

 

Take Fat Shaming Out of Fitness Culture https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/why-we-need-to-take-fat-shaming-out-of-fitness-culture/2018/03/08/728365ac-1e31-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html

 

Why Fear of Sugar May Be More Toxic Than Sugar Itself

https://www.self.com/story/why-fear-of-sugar-addiction-may-be-more-toxic-than-sugar-is 

Recovery Stories: Unrestricted eating and freedom

In this podcast, Tabitha talks to Drake, who is in recovery from an eating disorder and wanted to share some hope. 

Dr Colleen Reichmann on recovery, HEAS, body diversity, and advocacy.

In this podcast Tabitha chats to Dr Colleen Reichmann about her recovery, health at every size, body diversity, and advoacy and activism. 

Dr. Colleen Reichmann is a licensed clinical psychologist, practicing in Williamsburg, VA. She works in her private practice, Wildflower Therapy, and is a staff psychologist at the College of William and Mary. She is recovered from an eating disorder, and this experience sparked her passion for spreading knowledge and awareness that recovery is possible. She is now an eating disorders specialist, and has worked at various treatment facilities including University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro Center for Eating Disorder Care, and The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt. She is an advocate for feminism, body liberation, fat acceptance, and health at every size.  She writes about body image and eating disorders for morelove.org, Project Heal, The Mighty, Recovery Warriors, and more.

 

Website: www.colleenreichmann.com

instagram: @drcolleenreichmann

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drcolleenreichmann/

 

 

Rehabilitate, Rewire, Recover: Force feeding yourself as an adult.

In this podcast I talk about the skill of being able to force feed yourself as an adult in recovery from anorexia. 

In the process of making yourself eat food you are afraid of you achieve both nutritional rehabiliation and neural rewiring goals. You train your brain that these foods are not a threat to you, and you eat the types of food that your body really needs in order to get out of malnutrition. 

When you are faced with food that you are not used to eating, or in larger quantites that you usually allow yourself to eat, you go into your sympathetic nervous system -- that's the fight or flight one. Food doesn't taste that good when you are stressed about it! But, if you continue to force yourself to eat, your brain learns that the food is not a threat, and in time, you remain calm when eating. This is what leads to the neural rewiring of your brain that these foods are not a threat to you. 

Recovery Stories: Recovery with kids

In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to an adult in recovery from anorexia who has young children. We talk about things children pick up on, dealing with children when you are going through recovery stress, and ways of talking to young children about eating disorders. 

Recovery Stories: Allow for body diversity when setting target weights

In this podcast Tabitha talks to the fabulous Carrie Arnold about the problems associated with setting target weight too long:

Topics covered:

- Body diversity

- What happens in patients minds when target weight are set too low

- Anorexia in larger bodies

- Overshoot vs. recovery weight

 

About Carrie Arnold

Carrie Arnold is an award winning blogger, freelance science writer, and author living in Virginia. She writes on a variety of topics from microbiology to evolution. Carrie is in recovery from anorexia, and is very active in the eating disorder community as an advocate for better research and treatments.

Carrie’s Webiste

Decoding Anorexia

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Recovery Stories: Elisa Oras, feast eating, and coming out the other side

In this podcast Tabitha talks to Elisa Oras about recovery. 

Topics covered include:

- Anorexia in people in larger bodies

- Bulimia, and binge/purge subtypes

- Feast eating in recovery

- Eating lots of food!

- Non-traditional recovery routes

- The important of listening to your body and allowing yourself to eat and rest. 

If you would like to learn more about Elisa:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWY-0as5iyX36Uy7gPLyBg

Website: http://followtheintuition.com/

Book: http://followtheintuition.com/book/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/followtheintuition/

 

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Recovery Stories: How allowing my parents to refeed me saved my life

In this episode, I talk to "Simon's Cat" a woman in recovery from anorexia. She shares her story about going back home to live with her parents for 3 months in order to start her recovery and get though the thoughest parts of the refeeding process. 

 

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Ask Dr G: Anorexia, malnutrition and your bones

In this podcast, Dr Jennifer Gaudiani talks about your bones, and what the effects of malnutrition caused by a restrictive eating disorder such as anorexia, can be on your bone health. 

• How malnutrition affects your bones
• Bone density
• Osteoporosis
• Osteopenia 
• The various treatment options 

 

About The Gaudiani Clinic

The Gaudiani Clinic provides superb expert outpatient medical care to adolescents and adults of all sizes, shapes, and genders with eating disorders or disordered eating. The Gaudiani Clinic also offers comprehensive person-centered care to those who are recovered from an eating disorder. Through a collaborative, communicative, multi-disciplinary approach, the Clinic cares for the whole person, in the context of their values.

Under the care of Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED, patients receive expert medical care provided in a comfortable and highly discreet private practice setting. Dr. Gaudiani is one of the only outpatient internists in the United States who carries the Certified Eating Disorder Specialist designation and is internationally recognized as an expert in the eating disorder field. In her role as an expert outpatient medical doctor, Dr. Gaudiani can function as a patient’s primary care physician or as an expert adjunctive physician as part of a multidisciplinary team.

The Gaudiani Clinic is located in Denver, Colorado with both local and telemedicine treatment plans available.

Dr. Gaudiani also offers professional services including private and group consultation, professional webinars, and presentations.

For more information about the Gaudiani Clinic, please visit www.gaudianiclinic.com, call 720.515.2140.

 

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Recovery Feast Eating

Saying goodbye to 2017, and looking back over the year and what I have learned. In this podcast I talk about what I call recovery "feast" eating, which is more commonly referred to as "binge" eating. Looking at eating a lot of food as a highly appropriate response to restriction. 

Why it is normal and appropriate to eat a lot of food when you are in recovery from anorexia

Why restriciton makes us desire to eat large amounts of food

The problem with psychoanalysing eating — especially recovery eating!

 

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Dr G: Hormones (and how malnutrition affects them!)

In this podcast Tabitha talks to Dr Jennifer Gaudiani from the Gaudiani Clinic in Denver about the important and interesting topic of hormones and how they are affected by restrictive eating disorders. Topics covered include:

• How malnutrition affects the endocrine system
• How nutritional rehabilitation affects the endocrine system
• The thyroid, and how it is affected by malnutrition
• Commonly mistaken diagonises
• What doctors need to know about hormones and malnutrition
• The menstrual cycle
• Sex hormones, and sex drive

 

About The Gaudiani Clinic

The Gaudiani Clinic provides superb expert outpatient medical care to adolescents and adults of all sizes, shapes, and genders with eating disorders or disordered eating. The Gaudiani Clinic also offers comprehensive person-centered care to those who are recovered from an eating disorder. Through a collaborative, communicative, multi-disciplinary approach, the Clinic cares for the whole person, in the context of their values.

Under the care of Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED, patients receive expert medical care provided in a comfortable and highly discreet private practice setting. Dr. Gaudiani is one of the only outpatient internists in the United States who carries the Certified Eating Disorder Specialist designation and is internationally recognized as an expert in the eating disorder field. In her role as an expert outpatient medical doctor, Dr. Gaudiani can function as a patient’s primary care physician or as an expert adjunctive physician as part of a multidisciplinary team.

The Gaudiani Clinic is located in Denver, Colorado with both local and telemedicine reatment plans available.

Dr. Gaudiani also offers professional services including private and group consultation, professional webinars, and presentations.

For more information about the Gaudiani Clinic, please visit www.gaudianiclinic.com, call 720.515.2140.

 

 

 

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Dear Doctor ...

People with eating disorders, parents, and doctors share what they think doctors should know about eating disorders. 

 

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Defining Mental Hunger And Why It Is Important In Anorexia Recovery

In this Podcast Tabitha talks about mental hunger. We look at:

- What mental hunger is

- What mental hunger represents

- Why responding to mental hunger is important

- Why physical hunger cues are not reliable in Anorexia recovery

- How mental hunger will naturally reduce during the refeeding process

 

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Before recovery vs. after recovery

In this podcast Tabitha answers questions about life before recovery versus life after recovery from Anorexia. 

Topics covered include:

- Dining out

- Social life

- Feeling cold

- Eating with others

 

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Dr G: Tummy Troubles in Eating Disorder Recovery

Tabitha talks to Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani about all things gastrointestinal in eating disorder recovery! We talk about bowel movements, irritable bowel syndrome, delayed gastric emptying, and so much more! 

 

 

Medical Minute Videos: 

Gastroparesis: https://youtu.be/ANke8zW_Uu8

Bloating: https://youtu.be/XAMplGpuO2Q
Metabolism: https://youtu.be/i27GwLaE3PQ

Blog Posts: 

The Unmeasurables of an Eating Disorder: http://www.gaudianiclinic.com/gaudiani-clinic-blog/2017/1/11/the-unmeasurables-of-an-eating-disorder

 

Cave Person Brain, Part 1: http://www.gaudianiclinic.com/gaudiani-clinic-blog/2017/7/31/cave-person-brain-part-1

 

Cave Person Brain, Part 2: http://www.gaudianiclinic.com/gaudiani-clinic-blog/2017/7/27/cave-person-part-2

 

Unzip Your Digestive Tract FromYour Emotional State: http://www.denverhealth.org/medical-services/acute-center-for-eating-disorders/acute-medical-mondays/article/unzip-your-digestive-tract-from-your-emotional-state-20328

Why Do I Swell Up?: Dehydration, Edema, and the Effects of Purging (Vomiting, Laxatives, and/or Diuretics): http://www.denverhealth.org/medical-services/acute-center-for-eating-disorders/acute-medical-mondays/article/e2809cwhy-do-i-swell-upe2809d-dehydration-edema-and-the-effects-of-purging-vomiting-laxatives-andor-diuretics-23148

 

How starvation works against metabolism: http://www.denverhealth.org/medical-services/acute-center-for-eating-disorders/acute-medical-mondays/article/test-article-18548

 

Gastroparesis: An often painful and dangerous eating disorder complication: http://www.denverhealth.org/medical-services/acute-center-for-eating-disorders/acute-medical-mondays/article/gastroparesis-an-often-painful-and-dangerous-eating-disorder-complication-18626

 

AED Guidelines: 

https://www.aedweb.org/index.php/education/eating-disorder-information/eating-disorder-information-13

Anorexia Recovery: Energy Deficit | Energy Debt | Target Weights | Weight vs State Restoration

Just me in this podcast! Responding to questions that I get frequently around Anorexia recovery and weight restoration. How to know when you are really weight restored? Let me tell you it is not something that you can calculate via a math equation or estimate via looking on a height/weight chart. 

Weight restoration is a process of gaining weight until you are within a healthy weight range (I recommend a BMI of 22 at least) and continuing to eat without restriction until you no longer fear further weight gain. This podcast fully explains my position on that weight restoration, target weights, and weight versus mental state restoration. 

 

 

 

 

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Challenging intake guidelines — Dr Graham Redgrave

Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr Graham Redgrave about the research done at Johns Hopkins looking into higher weights and a faster rate of refeeding patients with Anorexia in an inpatient hospital setting. The conversation includes:

• Refeeding intakes, traditional expectations versus new developements
• Problems with low target weights
• Relapse prevention programs
• Lower rate of relaspe for patients who reach higher BMIs in treatment
• The case for higher caloric intakes once the risk of refeeding syndrome is past
• What refeeding syndrome is, and research around this
• How and when treatment fails patients. 
• Why we need to challenge the current guidelines pertraining to refeeding intakes

 

 

Link to the orginal study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25625572

 

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