Bites & Body Love (v)
Welcome to "Bites and Body Love (v)," the podcast where your journey to full body image and food freedom begins! I'm your host, Jamie (she/her), a passionate registered dietitian nutritionist, specialist in body image and disordered eating and body image recovery, owner of an outpatient practice specializing in disordered eating recovery, and creator of the True Food and Body Image (™) Program. I'm here to provide you with a safe and inspiring space, right on your device, where we navigate towards full recovery, food freedom, positive body image, and true well-being. Together we will navigate topics that include all things body image healing, intuitive eating, food freedom, eating disorder recovery, and more! 🌟
As someone who's walked the path of disordered eating and battled through body image struggles, I intimately understand the challenges you might be facing. No matter where you are in your journey, whether you're just starting out or making strides toward recovery, this podcast is designed for you to be your companion and confidante and get to FULL recovery. So if you want to get to that finish line and put disordered eating and negative body image fully behind you to thrive not only in your relationship with food and body but in life.
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Bites & Body Love (v)
One of the Scariest Phases of ED Recovery- Quasi Recovery
In this video, I open up about my own journey through quasi recovery and the exact place where so many of my clients get stuck. We’ll dive into why this phase of eating disorder recovery feels so terrifying, the common patterns that keep people here, and the steps to finally break free and move toward full recovery. If you’ve ever felt “better but not recovered,” this is for you.
If this resonates, you can explore more support, my signature program to reach full recovery, courses, and resources on healing your relationship with food and your body on my website.
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So in my own personal recovery, and I see this for so many people, it's something I'm so passionate about. But after I let go and and healed some of my behaviors, I then became stuck years without knowing, without it being as noticed, um, without seeming without it seeming concerning because the behaviors weren't what they were. I got stuck in this place called that I like to call like quasi-seudo-recovery. And this place is a scary place to be because it is a place where it's much more acceptable in society, and it's also a lot harder for us in recovery to see how it's a problem. And so I want to talk about that today. I want to talk about my own experience and what I see with clients, why it's a scary place to be, what it looks like, and how to get to full recovery and not be stuck in this pseudo-recovery place and what that takes. And so to start with my own journey, I like I mentioned, was just stuck in this place where I was doing better. I wasn't um, you know, really hardcore exercising and over-exercising. I wasn't as depleted and restricting um as as much. I wasn't as uh uh obsessive over, you know, those kind of behaviors. Um, there was no more uh, you know, periods of binging due to that restriction. Um I was at a healthier weight for my body. Um I let go of those behaviors, understanding that that wasn't good. Um, and it wasn't a place I wanted to stay. And then what happened was I entered this place where I thought I was recovered from my eating disorder. That I I never, you know, at the time I didn't label it as such. Um, but I I thought I was in this place of um doing better with food and body and that that constant anxiety and struggle. But I don't know if any amount of brain space around food and body image actually decreased. I think I went from 80% food and body on my mind to 70% or maybe 80% still, but it shifted to these new obsessions. Um and so I was in this place where I was still obsessed about figuring out food and nutrition and these ideals, and um still very, very much feeling like um I needed to have control over my body, and um then there was this new and just had very terrible body image, um, but also there's this new thing around health and wanting to be healthy, doing it for this this purpose of being healthy. And the healthy was obsessive, rigid. I didn't understand it. Um, it's very black and white, and it was very gotta find all the perfect answers. And so in this place in pseudo recovery, I'm gonna explain a little bit just in case you're here and you're questioning why it still doesn't feel good. Um so like I said, a lot of my behavior stopped. I wasn't, I wasn't binging and I wasn't exercising as obsess obsessively. I wasn't necessarily counting calories as as hardcore, I was focusing more on what I was eating. Um, but I was still very much focused and obsessed with it. So those behaviors were um a lot less intense. I, you know, gained significant weight by that point too of where my body needed to go. Um, but my day-to-day, this is maybe kind of what I'll explain, and it was a while back, so I'm gonna, you know, try and think, really think back, but what the day-to-day looked like. Essentially, from day to day, I still was focused on food and body image from the b minute I woke up until the minute I went to bed, just in a different way. I was obsessed over finding the exact way to eat for health and the way I prepared it, and um, I got into like functional medicine, and I was really still super focused on getting this body that would make me feel more confident um and and um make me feel more comfortable, and so my body image was still very much tied up into how perfectly I could eat, um, shaping my body, exercise too. I was really like researching 24-7, not only my my diet, but also the perfect exercise to that like created optimal health and longevity, it was and and also what would shape my body in a certain way. And it was extremely obsessive, but I also was it it produced a lot of anxiety and it took me away from my day-to-day, so it's just obsession over health um in these in these weird ways, and it was me trying to control these areas that in a in a healthier way, in a more acceptable way, and it felt like such a huge responsibility trying to figure this out. And I I I was like, I'm I can't figure it out. I can't figure I can't get to my this weight that feels great or the shape that feels great or this ideal body. I can't figure out what's you know what nutrition is gonna make me feel like super confident and in control and like solve all my problems. Like I didn't actually know what I was reaching for, I didn't know the roots of what was causing this. I didn't it was just my uh disordered eating that morphed into you know less scary behaviors, maybe medically, but still super scary in how much it was impacting my mental health and my well-being and my life. Um, you know, really I can my day was centered around this what groceries to get, what research to do, fitting in my workout, obsessing over the scale and the mirror, um, and like solving this thing to help me to feel safe, to feel more confident, to feel more stable, to feel more whole. And um it just morphed. And everyone's pseudo recovery, quasi recovery is gonna look different. But what I like to describe it as is you're you're doing better, but you haven't got to that place with your relationship with food and body where it is.