A Hunger Artist

Learning to let go of disordered eating

Emily T. Troscianko

Anorexia and Dietary Fat: To Ditch One, Embrace the Other

Three ways in which not limiting the amount of dietary fat you consume will help make your recovery wholehearted—plus reflections on the timeline of recovery and fat's roles in it.

Anorexia and Dietary Fat: Brain Function, Hunger and Satiety

An overview of dietary fat’s roles in healthy brain function as well as the regulation of hunger and satiety signalling.

Anorexia and Dietary Fat: A Relationship of Estrangement

An overview of the typical lack of dietary fat in anorexic diets, and some common reasons for it.

26 Ways to Be Happy About Getting Fatter

Gaining significant body fat is a non-negotiable element of recovery from anorexia. It's time to make peace with the idea and the reality of getting fatter.

Are You More Than Your Body? Free Will

Are your philosophical views relevant to your recovery? If you believe free will doesn’t exist, might you be more or less likely to get better?

Are You More Than Your Body? Self-Objectification

Are your philosophical views relevant to your recovery? If you believe matter is all that the universe consists of, might you be more or less likely to get better?

Anorexia and Friendship: Can Friends Galvanize Recovery?

As anorexia gives way to recovery, friendships continue to play a role, for good or for ill, and continue to be shaped themselves by the movement from illness to health.

Anorexia and Friendship: How Friendship Can Affect Anorexia

Can friendships also hinder somebody's wellbeing? Here I consider what friendships can do to affect the course of an illness, for better or worse.

Anorexia and Friendship: What Eating Disorders Do to Friends

Friendships are changed by anorexia, and relationships with loved ones can be deeply stressed from the hurt of an eating disorder. Here's a couple of reasons why.

Anorexia and Friendship: The Science of Their Reciprocity

Friendships are changed by anorexia, and anorexia can be changed by friendship. What difficulties can manifest prior to anorexia's onset, and what's the research behind it?

Zooming Out and Back In: A Cognitive Foundation for Recovery

Seeing the bigger picture, and applying what you have seen to the little details that make the difference, is crucial to making any major life change come good.

8 Ways of Responding to Stress

I describe eight forms of stress response and map out how they can change from anorexia to recovery and post-recovery.

Coping with Stress During and After Recovery from Anorexia

Why is recovery from anorexia so stressful? How can you make it less so? And what happens when it’s over?

The Things No One Tells You about Anorexia and Recovery

Anorexia messes life up in profound ways, but in the little things too. Some are easily attributed to starvation, others less so. Recovery requires openness to them all changing.

Pros and Cons of Taking Time Out for Recovery from Anorexia

There are arguments for and against putting life on hold for recovery. How should you decide, and how can you make what you decide on work as well as possible for you?

Raising Children After Anorexia

A mother of four and paediatrician in recovery shares what she’s learned about parenting post-anorexia—both how parents can shape their children, and vice versa.

The Complicated Relationship Between Anorexia and Sex

Sex often vanishes in anorexia and returns in recovery. Learning—or relearning—how to let sexual appetites and connections be part of life again is complex and often scary.

Pregnancy and Early Motherhood After Anorexia

Many women worry that anorexia will affect their ability to conceive or to cope with pregnancy or motherhood. A medic and mother recovering from anorexia shares what she's learned.

Should You Exercise During Recovery From Anorexia? Part 2

A guide to how to exercise and not exercise in anorexia, recovery, and life after recovery.

Should You Exercise During Recovery From Anorexia? Part 1

People in recovery from anorexia often ask whether it’s OK to keep exercising during weight restoration. I team up with a doctor with personal experience to attempt an answer.

Consuming Fictions: Reading and Eating Disorders

I report on research I conducted with the charity Beat on reading habits and eating disorders, and link the findings to how my own reading changed with illness and recovery.

You Are Not Your Genes: Menstruation in Anorexia & Recovery

A look at the evidence for when menstruation stops and starts in anorexia and recovery offers a different perspective on health and illness.

The Six Seductions of Anorexia

How does anorexia take hold, and what, in the end, makes it loosen its grip—or makes you let go?

What Does the Mando Method Mean for Independent Recovery?

What does the success of the Mando eating-normalisation method for treating eating disorders mean for anorexia recovery?

A Simple Eating Disorder Treatment No One Ever Talks About

A little-known treatment for eating disorders is achieving high remission and recovery rates – and defining remission and recovery in meaningful ways.

CBT for Eating Disorders: A Not-Yet-Success Story

An outline of the current evidence for CBT efficacy in eating disorder treatment, including problems with relapse reporting and questionable definitions of remission and recovery.

You Don't Deserve This Cake—Nor Do You Not Deserve It

It seems such an obvious route to self-empowerment: I deserve to eat this. But maybe it's the opposite.

Who Wants to Be Normal?

Is normality for you a shining beacon, a haunting impossibility, a reviled trap, an ironic fiction? In anorexia and recovery from it, it can be all these things at different times.

Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous: Does It Make Sense?

I analyze the ABA literature to explore whether or not the translation from alcohol addiction to eating disorders results in coherent and constructive principles and practices.

Traveling, Fighting, Dancing: Illness and Recovery Metaphors

Metaphors shape our language and our thought. Paying attention to them in illness and in health can help us clarify our defaults and experiment with other possibilities.

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