Reprogram Your Brain from a Restrictive Eating Disorder ~ Abstinence or Moderation?
Overcoming an addiction to energy deficit needs you to reprogram your brain from a restrictive eating disorder but abstinence or moderation?
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ADDICTED TO ENERGY DEFICIT—YOUR NEUROSCIENCE BASED GUIDE TO RESTRICTIVE EATING DISORDERS
& AIMING For OVERSHOOT—THE HANDBOOK YOU NEED TO FULLY OVERCOME A RESTRICTIVE EATING DISORDER
Helly Barnes~
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All About Restrictive Eating Disorders aka
An Addiction to Energy Deficit
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Helly Barnes
- Jul 16
- 4 min
Withdrawal Symptoms from a Restrictive Eating Disorder & Addiction to Energy Deficit
The withdrawal symptoms you can expect as you overcome a restrictive eating disorder and addiction to energy deficit.
Helly Barnes
- Jul 11
- 4 min
The Power of Rituals and Restrictive Eating Disorders
With a restrictive eating disorder, it is important to understand what role rituals play in the disorder and the power they have.
Helly Barnes
- Jul 8
- 5 min
What Makes Energy Deficit & Associated Behaviours Initially So Rewarding?
Why is energy deficit so rewarding to someone with the susceptibility to develop a restrictive eating disorder?
Helly Barnes
- Jul 4
- 6 min
The Neuroscience of an Addiction to Energy Deficit - Dopamine Balance
Understanding the neuroscience of an addiction to energy deficit, aka restrictive eating disorder, using the dopamine balance model.
Helly Barnes
- Jul 1
- 4 min
The Neuroscience of an Addiction to Energy Deficit: Deep Learning
To understand the neuroscience of an addiction to energy deficit, you need to know about deep learning and how it relates to rewiring.
Helly Barnes
- Jun 28
- 4 min
What is an Addiction to Energy Deficit?
Restrictive eating disorders can be considered to be a brain based addiction to the state of energy deficit. But what does this really mean?
Helly Barnes
- Apr 21
- 13 min
The Scarcity Mindset & Restrictive Eating Disorders
Restrictive eating disorders create a scarcity mindset which impact on behaviours related to food, money spending & even lead to stealing.
Helly Barnes
- Mar 21
- 8 min
Pre-Mortems and Eating Disorder Bashing
A pre mortem is a tool to use in eating disorder recovery to predict how a recovery situation might go wrong to help ensure it goes right!
Helly Barnes
- Mar 8
- 4 min
"I'm Giving Up... Let the Eating Disorder Consume Me!"
A personal post in which I share a journal entry made at a point in the process to overcome an eating disorder when I wanted to give up.
Helly Barnes
- Feb 3
- 6 min
Make the Weight Gain Justified!
Weight gain while still restricting or compensating as you attempt to overcome an eating disorder feels unjustified. Escape this scenario!
Helly Barnes
- Jan 17
- 6 min
Overcome an Eating Disorder by Making Commitments that Work FOR You!
Commitments in the process of overcoming an eating disorder can be hard to keep.
If-Then Plans can help pin your commitments to real life
Helly Barnes
- Dec 27, 2022
- 9 min
Eat to Extreme Hunger to Overcome an Eating Disorder
Extreme hunger when overcoming an eating disorder can be frightening and extreme! These are some first hand experiences of how it can look.
Helly Barnes
- Dec 20, 2022
- 9 min
Eating Disorder Recovery Need Not Be a Tug of War (Part 2)
What does a tug of war between a person in recovery and an eating disorder look like and what does it look like to walk away from the games?
Helly Barnes
- Dec 13, 2022
- 8 min
Eating Disorder Recovery Need Not Be a Tug of War (Part 1)
Eating disorder recovery feels like a tug of war between the person in recovery & the eating disorder. But it doesn't have to be this way!
Helly Barnes
- Dec 7, 2022
- 8 min
The Neuro-Biology of Hunger. What Happens with Eating Disorders?
Hunger is controlled by the brain and body in a range of different processes. What happens differently in eating disorders to this?
Helly Barnes
- Nov 29, 2022
- 13 min
Physical, Mental, Behavioural & Emotional Signs of HUNGER!
Hunger can manifest in physical ways but also mentally, emotionally and in behaviour. This post discusses all the ways hunger can appear.
Helly Barnes
- Nov 24, 2022
- 13 min
Christmas in Recovery from an Eating Disorder... Aaarghh!!!
Christmas can be a very anxiety provoking time for a person in recovery from an eating disorder. This post provides tips to help cope.
Helly Barnes
- Nov 17, 2022
- 7 min
11 Tips to Keep Eating in Eating Disorder Recovery Despite No Appetite (Part 2 of 2)
This post provides 11 tips to help you keep eating in eating disorder recovery even if you have a low (perceived!) appetite.
Helly Barnes
- Nov 14, 2022
- 9 min
No Appetite - Do I Have To Eat? Eating Disorder Recovery (Part 1 of 2)
It is hard to keep eating in eating disorder recovery when you feel physically full. This post explains why you need to keep eating anyway.
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