Category: emotional eating

advocacy Goodbye calories! Hello, energy!

Goodbye calories! Hello, energy!

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Calorie is a word laden with a myriad of connotations imposed by diet culture, a word that can be so insidious that I’ve hesitated to write about it. From the impressionable age of 11, I became aware of my body in a new, mysterious way. In tandem with entering that...

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Anorexia Outsmarting the eating disorder triggers

Outsmarting the eating disorder triggers

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Anyone who has struggled with an eating disorder (ED) is familiar with the words trigger or triggered, and I am no different. Even though I am in the space of recovery, situations that could trigger eating disorder thoughts and behaviours are everywhere. Living in this diet culture/weight-biased world, there is...

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