Learn to trust your body again by tuning into hunger and fullness signals. The podcast explains how to do it. I hope that you find it helpful.

Find out more about my work: -

My YouTube channel

Food Freedom App - https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom - https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia Online Course - https://food-freedom coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Eating Disorders Training for Professionals - https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training for Professionals - https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

My website - https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk

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The MANTRA flower from the Maudsley Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa is a valuable tool in eating disorder recovery. I talk about it here.

If you would like a visual representation of the flower, please click on my Substack or YouTube links below.

Find out more about my work: -

My YouTube channel

Food Freedom App - https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom - https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia Online Course - https://food-freedom coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Eating Disorders Training for Professionals - https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training for Professionals - https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

My website - https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk

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Food Freedom App - https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

The pursuit of thinness and body perfection is raging as strongly as ever. With popular podcasts, YouTube, and TikTok influencers delivering extreme food regimes daily; countless people using the skinny jab; AI making online beauty standards even more unachievable; it’s no wonder that the average human spends many minutes of each day obsessing over food choices and body proportions.

You may not have a full-blown eating disorder fitting neatly into a diagnostic box. But, if you are experiencing high levels of body distress and intense preoccupation around food, then this needs to be taken seriously, as it will be impacting your mood, body image and life.

Here are 20 disordered eating behaviours that have become normalised in 2026 daily living.

1. Preoccupation with food and body

2. Anxiety about eating the right foods

3. Always being on and off a regime

4. Intense emotion around food

5. Obsessing about weight, leanness, muscularity,

6. Over-exercising

7. Temptation towards more destructive behaviours

8. Filling up on low calorie foods, Pepsi-max, coffee

9. Googling private skinny jab stores at midnight

10. Obsessing over someone else’s food intake

11. Having a whole language around food which is detrimental

12. Thinking that a completely flat stomach is normal

13. Zooming in on other’s people eating and weight loss

14. Watching What I Eat in Day as normal entertainment

15. 1200 kcal meal plans

16. Feeling obsessed with sugar due to restriction

17. Not knowing hunger signals anymore

18. Being starving or overly full

19. Feeling cold, tired, weary, sub-optimal

20. Fantasising about weight loss and the dream life it will create What would you add to the list?

Find out more about my work: -

My YouTube channel

Food Freedom App - https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom - https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia Online Course - https://food-freedom coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Eating Disorders Training for Professionals - https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training for Professionals - https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

My website - https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk

#disorderedeating #disorderedeatingrecovery #bingeeatingrecovery #bingeeatinghelp #eatingdisorderrecovery #foodfreedom #eatingdisorderrecovery #relationshipwithfood