Recovering with Danie | Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

In today's episode, I talk openly and candidly about my experience with chronic illness, stress/PTSD from my chronic illness, and about my own current weight gaining journey. If you follow me on Instagram, you've probably seen my start of my weight-gain journey that I recently embarked on, after some unintentional weight loss. While I absolutely despised and feared weight gain when I had a...

Happy new year! We're kicking 2024 off with a review of a popular method in eating disorder recovery. The plate-by-plate approach® has been a popular method of nutritional rehabilitation in eating disorders for the past couple of years. And whilst I love that it at least isn't based on counting calories or macronutrients, I'm still not the biggest fan. In today's episode, I discuss...

You may not want to gain weight, but the truth is that if you want to recover, you will have to. It doesn't need to be a goal per se, but it will happen, and if you keep avoiding it, you won't recover. But how do you do it? How do you accept you're going to gain weight and stop avoiding it? In today's episode we talk all about how to get yourself to actually take step towards recov...

With the holiday's around the corner and aunt Susy in the back of your head exclaiming how she "barely ate all day so she could enjoy a nice dinner!", it's no wonder if you're finding yourself wanting to (or feeling like you need to) restrict before the Christmas holidays. However, I'm here to remind you that absolutely you do not need to restrict before the holidays or a...

I've talked about feasting in recovery more often - on why it's not only logical but necessary to fuel your body with A LOT of food that's easily digestible (aka 'processed foods') and foods that you've restricted for so long. But what if you feel like you're there - you've recovered from your restrictive eating disorder, be that anorexia, bulimia or OSFED, and you&...

It's almost Christmas! The most wonderful time of the year? With all the festivities going on, everyone being hyperfocused on foods and drinks, and often a lot of dining with loved ones, Christmas can be a very stressful time for those suffering from an eating disorder. You may be scared that you'll 'binge' or worried about not having control over your food, and to top it all off,...

Mealplans can be super helpful when recovering from an eating disorder. However, you're not going to always eat according to a meal-plan. So when is the best time to transition from a meal plan into intuitive eating, to avoid relapsing into anorexia, bulimia, or OSFED? And just how rigid do meal-plans need to be anyway? Tune in to find out! My new program, The Booster Intensive, is starting so...

Many people who start real recovery, have experienced quasi recovery. It's a hell of a place to be in, but on the outside, you may seem 'fine' or even 'healthy'. As people stop watching you as closely and you start to convince yourself that you're recovered, actually recovering may seem 'useless' and scary. But that's not to say that it isn't the best choice...

If you've struggled with an eating disorder or disordered eating - whether that's anorexia, bulimia, BED or any other eating disorder - chances are, you've experienced 'binging'. Heck, even people without eating disorders have probably binged at some point in their life. Feasting - as I like to call binging - is absolutely normal and actually insanely helpful when you are in re...

If you've been on the eating disorder recovery side of any social media platform lately, you may have heard about how Tabitha Farrar recently claimed that not only is it possible to recover from your eating disorder in six weeks, it's also what will happen if you are truly motivated and trying. And while I'm generally a big fan of her work, and have used knowledge from her book in both...

In episode 2 of season 2, we continue on with the Q&A. Today's episode is all about what your physical health says about your eating disorder and what happens to it when you start recovering from your eating disorder. Like why you may retain some water (a.k.a. edema) when recovering, why the fact that the scale goes up doesn't matter, and what (not) getting your period at a low body we...

Season 2 has started! Welcome to this new season of Recovering with Danie. We’re starting the season where we left off last week, answering more of your questions regarding eating disorder recovery, food, fitness, and diet culture. In today’s episode, I talk about finding yourself when you’re recovering from an eating disorder - who are you besides (and without) mental health issues? And while you...

You keep asking good questions, and so I keep answering them! Although only a very few percentage of eating disorder sufferers is underweight, diet culture and many mental health facilities make a big deal out of recovering when you’re not underweight. So how do you do it? Why do you have to gain weight when you recover from a restrictive eating disorder, and how do you cope with the weight gain i...

In the second part of this Q&A, Danie answers some more listener questions about eating disorder recovery, exercise addiction, body positivity and body shaming, and more. Do you wonder whether you're ever too old for recovery, or find yourself not knowing how to start recovery? Or what a thin body does(n't) have to do with recovery? How about gaining muscle instead of gaining weight? I...

We're back with a good old combination episode with personal updates and recovery tips! Danie discusses her own dating life and how she's been feeling, along with commonly asked questions regarding night eating, feasting, and recovery burnout. AKA all you guys want to know and need to propel forward in your eating disorder recovery. Tune in! My new program, The Booster Intensive, is starti...

In an earlier episodes, we already discussed the dangers of meal plans and how to use them effectively. But, if you’re just starting recovery and/or treatment, you may not even have a meal plan or a plan in general. In today’s episode, Danie talks about the whether you need (meal)plans to recover from your eating disorder, and tips and tricks on how to (not) use or make them. Tune in for your week...

The way you speak to yourself matters. But how, exactly? In today’s episode Danie explains the dangers of negative self talk in recovery, and why she wants her clients to give them the permission and love they seek from those around them, within themselves. If you’re in recovery and what to scare away the eating disorder voice with a healthy voice, be sure to listen to this next episode of Recover...

So, you start doing what you've been scared of this entire time: Recovery. And as it turns out, it's not as scary as you thought it would be, maybe you even find yourself enjoying it! Many people with an eating disorder will wonder if this is 'weird', or whether they maybe never even had an eating disorder to begin with. After all, aren't you supposed to spend recovery crying/s...

It can sometimes seem like 'methods' to recover from your eating disorder are just as 'trendy' as fad-diets. If you've been on the recovery side of social media at all in the past couple of years, you're likely to have heard of all-in and Minnie Maud, and more recently, lots of people have been documenting their recovery journey on TikTok. So what do these terms mean, how d...

Mindful eating and intuitive eating are hot topics - any food or sports influencer will talk to you about how you need to eat mindfully and tune into your body's fullness signals. But what if you're in recovery? How do does concepts apply to you, and how do you know when it's your intuition/body telling you to stop eating, and when it's your eating disorder? Danie discusses all thi...

One of the most frequently asked questions has been: "Will I develop Binge Eating Disorder after having had a restrictive ED?", and as it turns out, it's not just people with eating disorders who think they will, but Google seems to think the same thing. In today's episode, Danie discusses the science behind these claims, and why binging/feasting during recovery does not mean you...

If you’re recovering, you may frequently worry about what your life will look like after recovery, or you may romanticise it. The reality is most likely that your life after recovery is somewhat of a mix between the amazing things you suspect, and the harder things you may be trying to avoid with your eating disorder. The crucial difference between how it was and how it will be, however? The fact...

Recovery is hard, and venturing into the real world can be scary. There’s loads of things that may trigger you, which may make you want to avoid them. But should you? How can you work on your triggers? How can you avoid getting triggered, without having to give up on living? In today’s episode, Danie discusses all this and more! My new program The Mini recovery Bootcamp has been officially launche...

We're back to regular podcast episodes! Today's episode is on feasting/binging. Feasting is normal and like we've discussed before, it can be very important to recovery and it's likely you'll experience the urge to feast during your eating disorder or recovery. However, even if you get the urge, it can be hard to listen to it. So what are the driving factors behind it? How can...

Danie has been a bit more quiet recently due to everything that has been going on. In today's different-from-normal episode, she discusses why that is. Seeing as this is a community, Danie wants to be open and honest with you about how she's been doing. And although perhaps not the point of the episode, Danie wouldn't be Danie if even this episode weren't inspiring. My new program...