The Eating Disorder Therapist

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

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This podcast explores orthorexia nervosa and how it can evolve from clean eating. It explains what it is and how to begin to heal from it.  I hope that you find it helpful.

 

To find out more about my work: -

YouTube

Substack

Do check out Food Freedom - my app if you’d like some support. 

Take me to the app!

Buy me a coffee!

New mini course - if you love fitness and struggle with food relationship. Only £22 for 90 minutes of inspiration and tips, plus a workbook.
The Fitness Lover’s Guide to Food Freedom (creating your happiest and healthiest relationship with food). I initially created this for my local gym and decided that more of you might like to access the resources. Do sign up!

To find out more about my work:-
Go to my Website

My new APP! Freedom with Food
Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating - a course to help you heal your relationship with food.

Online Breaking Free from Bulimia - a course to help you break free from bulimia nervosa.

Eating Disorders Training for Professionals - training for therapists in working with clients with eating disorders.

Body Image Training for Professionals - training for therapists in working with clients with body image issues.

My YouTube channel

#foodfreedom #eatingdisorderrecovery #orthorexia #orthorexianervosa #cleaneating

In this episode, I explore the roots of competitiveness and why you might not feel good enough. I explore tips to change this.

 

To find out more about my work: -

YouTube

Substack

Do check out Food Freedom - my app if you’d like some support. 

Take me to the app!

Buy me a coffee!

New mini course - if you love fitness and struggle with food relationship. Only £22 for 90 minutes of inspiration and tips, plus a workbook.
The Fitness Lover’s Guide to Food Freedom (creating your happiest and healthiest relationship with food). I initially created this for my local gym and decided that more of you might like to access the resources. Do sign up!

To find out more about my work:-
Go to my Website

My new APP! Freedom with Food
Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating - a course to help you heal your relationship with food.

Online Breaking Free from Bulimia - a course to help you break free from bulimia nervosa.

Eating Disorders Training for Professionals - training for therapists in working with clients with eating disorders.

Body Image Training for Professionals - training for therapists in working with clients with body image issues.

My YouTube channel

#mentalhealthawareness #psychology #bodyimage #competition #iamenough #goodenough #selfworth #selfesteem

Today, I’m talking to Dr. Lara Zibarras. Dr Lara has a PhD in Psychology and is a Certified Nutrition & Wellness Coach. She’s also trained in Intuitive Eating and has an Advanced Diploma in Eating Disorders & Nutritional Interventions. Her personal experiences with food have also shaped her approach.

Dr Lara helps people with all kinds of disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image issues. Whether someone is struggling with emotional or binge eating, purging, restricting, or negative body image, she will work with you to rebuild a positive relationship for you, with food and your body.

Today, Lara is going to talk all about binge eating.

She’s going to explore the impact of undereating on bingeing. Dr. Lara is going to talk about the mindset impact on binge eating such as all or nothing thinking and perfectionist tendencies. She’s going to dive deep into the impact of wellness culture and the pressures to eat super healthily and follow particular regimes and how this all can lead to binge eating.

I hope that you enjoy the conversation.

To find out more about Dr. Lara: -

Join her Binges to Balance Training - The 3-step plan to end eating chaos and finally get your act together around food

 www.drlarazib.com | Instagram | Community

 

To find out more about my work: -

YouTube

Substack

Do check out Food Freedom - my app if you’d like some support. 

Take me to the app!

Buy me a coffee!

New mini course - if you love fitness and struggle with food relationship. Only £22 for 90 minutes of inspiration and tips, plus a workbook.
The Fitness Lover’s Guide to Food Freedom (creating your happiest and healthiest relationship with food). I initially created this for my local gym and decided that more of you might like to access the resources. Do sign up!

To find out more about my work:-
Go to my Website

My new APP! Freedom with Food
Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating - a course to help you heal your relationship with food.

Online Breaking Free from Bulimia - a course to help you break free from bulimia nervosa.

Eating Disorders Training for Professionals - training for therapists in working with clients with eating disorders.

Body Image Training for Professionals - training for therapists in working with clients with body image issues.

My YouTube channel

#mentalhealthawareness #psychology #bingeeatingrecovery #bingeeating #bulimianervosa #bodyimage #bingeeatingdisorder

In this episode, Dr Rachel Evans (Psychologist) talks all about bulimia, sharing her personal experience of recovery and how she works with clients today. Rachel shares her story, defines bulimia, and talks about the binge/restrict/purge cycle. She shares her tips on interrupting cycles, increasing motivation and improving self-awareness to bring about change. I hope that you find it helpful.

Previous episode with Rachel: -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke1iH_ZdPjA

To work with Rachel: -

Website: https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Instagram: @rachel.evans.phd

To find out more about my work: -

 

To find out more about my work: -

YouTube

Substack

Do check out Food Freedom - my app if you’d like some support. 

Take me to the app!

Buy me a coffee!

New mini course - if you love fitness and struggle with food relationship. Only £22 for 90 minutes of inspiration and tips, plus a workbook.
The Fitness Lover’s Guide to Food Freedom (creating your happiest and healthiest relationship with food). I initially created this for my local gym and decided that more of you might like to access the resources. Do sign up!

To find out more about my work:-
Go to my Website

My new APP! Freedom with Food
Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating - a course to help you heal your relationship with food.

Online Breaking Free from Bulimia - a course to help you break free from bulimia nervosa.

Eating Disorders Training for Professionals - training for therapists in working with clients with eating disorders.

Body Image Training for Professionals - training for therapists in working with clients with body image issues.

My YouTube channel

#mentalhealthawareness #psychology #eatingdisorderrecovery #bulimiarecovery #bulimianervosa