In this video I answer one of your questions: “Will I get fat when I stop exercising?” I talk about 2 primarily things needed to start your recovery, what is my experience, and what I recommend for you! How many calories you need for recovery? http://bit.ly/2pN3CXT
“Restricting, dieting, overexercising and calorie compensating is a recipe for a metabolic slow-down. Your metabolism is not “broken” or “damaged” but what has happened is that your metabolism has adapted to the low-calorie consumption to protect you from losing too much weight. It’s what the “starvation mode” is all about. It doesn’t mean one…
“But what if I do overeat? How come I won’t become overweight or obese by doing this? If I eat more I need to restrict or exercise to compensate! Otherwise, the excess calories will turn into fat and I will gain unnecessarily! Maybe these are some of the questions you may wonder about the eating…
If you are overweight before starting recovery do the same recovery guidelines still apply to you as well? Or should you eat less and exercise more? Calorie guidelines: https://www.edinstitute.org/blog/2011/9/14/i-need-how-many-calories
Question about recovery: “Hi Elisa – I have a weird question but it’s something I can’t stop thinking about. OK, so I know we should stop restricting and exercising, which I’m trying to do. But I don’t want to get fat, and I know you say that our bodies will normalize, but what about all…
(This is a guest post by RawRitta from www.rawritta.com) Our ancestors were never told what to eat or how much to eat. Animals don’t think to themselves “hmm, what should I eat today and how much?” They just sniff the food and use their instinct to determine whether they want to eat that food or…
In my recovery I used both the MinnieMaud calorie guidelines and intuitive eating to achieve full recovery from my eating disorders (bulimia and orthorexia). I will say they both have their positive and negative aspects for recovery and different things work for different people. I have prevously talked about the MinnieMaud calorie guidelines for the…
If you have been through yo-yo dieting, crash dieting or even eating disorders you may realise that you need to let go of restriction, eat more calories, exercise less (or even stop completely), and rest more to fully recover and come out of the burned-out state. This, however, may freak you out a little, understandably.…
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This post is subjected mainly for people in eating disorder recovery. But anyone can benefit from this post no matter if you are a normal eater or if you have had ANY kinds of food problems. Also the calorie recommendations in this post apply to everybody – to people in recovery, post recovery or if…
