Why Your Body Isn’t a Calculator: Understanding Weight Changes in Anorexia Recovery

You cannot control how your body gains weight in recovery and this truth can feel scary and confusing. This blog looks at why our bodies respond the way they do and what to expect during the process of healing.

Eating Disorder Support, mental health, nutritionIsabella OsmondApril 3, 2026Isabella Osmondanorexia recovery, anorexia nutrition support, eating disorder recovery, eating disorder nutritionist, weight gain in anorexia recovery

Why Embracing Fullness Is Essential in Anorexia Recovery

Learning to tolerate fullness in early anorexia recovery can feel almost impossible, but I am here to reassure you that it is and explain why it is such an important step in your recovery journery.

Disordered Eating, Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondMarch 27, 2026isabella osmondanorexia recovery, anorexia nervosa, anorexia nutrition support, mental health and food, eating disorder recovery, eating disorder nutrition

What Is Clean Eating — And Why Can It Harm Recovery?

What does “clean eating” really mean? Learn how clean eating culture can fuel food anxiety, guilt, and eating disorder behaviours.

diet culture, Eating Disorder Support, Food Information, mental health, nutritionIsabella OsmondMarch 19, 2026Isabella Osmondeating disorder recovery, eating disorder nutrition, orthorexia, clean eating, disordered eating, diet culture

The Role of Fats in Eating Disorder Recovery

Learn why dietary fat is essential for hormone balance, brain health, and recovery from disordered eating and why low-fat diets can prolong symptoms.

Macronutrients, mental health, Food Information, nutrition, Eating Disorder Support, diet cultureIsabella OsmondMarch 9, 2026Isabella Osmondfats, disordered eating, eating disorder recovery, eating disorders, eating disorder nutrition, disordered eating recovery, diet culture

Why Carbohydrates Are Essential in Eating Disorder Recovery

Carbohydrates are one of the most feared food groups in eating disorder recovery. Diet culture labels them as “fattening,” “addictive,” or something to be controlled. But biologically, carbohydrates are not optional - they are essential.

diet culture, Eating Disorder Support, Macronutrients, mental health, nutrition, Practical Tools, Food InformationIsabella OsmondFebruary 27, 2026Isabella Osmondcarbohydrates, eating disorders, eating disorder nutrition, eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, mental health, nutritionist

Nutrition Myths That Fuel Disordered Eating (And the Truth That Supports Recovery)

Clear food rules can create the illusion of safety and control but many popular diet culture beliefs are not supported by evidence and can actively maintain restriction, binge-restrict cycles and food anxiety.

Eating Disorder Support, diet culture, nutrition, mental healthIsabella OsmondFebruary 27, 2026isabella Osmondnutrition myths, disordered eating, eating disorder recovery, diet culture, carbs are bad, clean eating, food rules, intuitive eating, recovery nutrition

Nourishing Your Body After Restriction: What to Expect in Eating Disorder Recovery

Beginning to nourish your body after restriction can feel overwhelming. Here’s what to expect physically and emotionally in early eating disorder recovery.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondFebruary 12, 2026Isabella Osmondnourishing your body after restriction, eating disorder recovery, disordered eating recovery, eating disorder nutrition, recovery after restriction, early eating disorder recovery symptoms, healing relationship with food

Overeating: The Physiological Response to Restriction

A physiological response to under eating is to over eat! This is not about willpower, it is about biology and our bodies amazing drive and desire to keep us fed and… alive!

Eating Disorder Recovery: Set Point Theory

Understanding that there is a genetically pre-determined weight range your body wants to sit within can be liberating as it allows you to let go of control and shift your mindset towards self-acceptance and redefining your relationship with food.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondOctober 24, 2025eating disorder recovery, eating disorders, set point theory, body acceptance, anorexia recovery, anorexia nervosa, Intuitive Eating

When Health Tracking Becomes Unhelpful For Mental Health and in Eating Disorder Recovery

With calorie-tracking apps, sleep monitors, step counters, and a plethora of wearable devices, we can now monitor almost every aspect of our well-being and ironically, rather than improving our health, all this data might actually be increasing anxiety, disordered eating and body dissatisfaction.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondJune 6, 2025health anxiety, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, anorexia recovery, binge eating, binge eating disorder, eating disorder recovery, eating disorders, eating disorder prevention, eating distress, eating disorder nutritionist, eating disorder nutrition, disordered eating, mental health, mental wellness

What is Health? A Compassionate Reminder for Eating Disorder Recovery

Here’s the truth: health is not a size, a weight, or a look. It is a collection of behaviours - not rules - that help you feel safe, nourished, whole and, support both mental and physical wellbeing.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondMay 16, 2025eating disorder recovery, eating disorder prevention, ED, eating distress, eating disorder nutritionist, anorexia nervosa, anorexia recovery, bulimia, bulimia nervosa, bulimia recovery, binge eating, binge eating disorder, disordered eating, eating disorder nutrition, healthComment

The Importance of Protein in Eating Disorder Recovery

Among the essential nutrients needed for recovery, protein provides the amino acids (the body’s building blocks), essential for rebuilding and repairing tissues, as well as restoring overall wellness.

Eating Disorder Support, MacronutrientsIsabella OsmondMarch 14, 2025anorexia, anorexia nervosa, anorexia recovery, bulimia nervosa, bulimia, bulimia recovery, eatin, eating disorder nutrition, eating disorder nutritionist, ED, diso, disordered eating

Why it's time to ditch the diets - From an Eating Disorder Nutritionist

We are human, we are unique, let’s stop trying to fight our genetics and instead respect and learn to accept them and our bodies because, really, our weight is the least interesting thing about us!

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondFebruary 17, 2025Isabella Osmonddiet industry, eating disorder recovery, eating distress, eating disorder, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, anxiety, binge eating, binge eating disorder, disordered eating

A Physiological Response to Restriction - Eating Disorder Recovery

A physiological response to restriction (aka - dieting) is for your internal appetite cues to increase. You’re brain thinks you are in a state of famine and due to the reduced calorie intake it wants energy and it wants it fast!

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondOctober 4, 2024restriction, food restriction, food distress, binge eating, bulimia nervosa, blood glucose levels

BOX / WINDOW BREATHING TECHNIQUE

Box breathing can be an extremely useful tool if you are feeling stressed, anxious, panicked and you need to ground yourself.

Practical Tools, Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondSeptember 27, 2024eating disorder recovery, anxiety, self-care tool, grounding techniques, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, ED Recovery, eating distress

Living with Anorexia Nervosa in a Larger Body: Society's Ignorance

Anorexia nervosa is often associated with extreme thinness, but the reality is that this eating disorder can affect individuals of all body sizes, including those in larger bodies.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondAugust 26, 2024anorexia nervosa, anorexia, eating disorder, eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, restriction, larger body, food restriction, food distress

The Importance of Fats - Eating Disorder Nutrition

Often the most feared and demonised macronutrient in those with eating disorders, fat. Let’s talk about why it is important and how can you tell if you are lacking in dietary fats.

Eating Disorder Support, MacronutrientsIsabella OsmondJune 24, 2024Nutritional Support, nutritional therapy, nutritionist, eati, eating disorder, disordered eating, macronutrient, fats, lipids, hormone health

Common Signs & Symptoms associated with low blood glucose in eating disorders

Low blood glucose levels are a commonly experienced in those with eating disorders (of all types). Dizziness, weakness and being hangry doesn’t sound too bad but, ignored, can easily slip into something far more dangerous.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondJune 24, 2024Isabella Osmondeating disorder recovery, eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, binge eating, bulimia nervosa, Nutritional Support, blood glucose levels, low blood sugar

Diets: A Potential Gateway to An Eating Disorder?

Engaging in restrictive eating can create a slippery slope towards the development of disordered eating or, a full blown eating disorder. The constant focus on weight and what you are, or are not, allowed to eat along with rigid rules, and foods being labeled as “good” or “bad”, can set an individual on their path to developing an unhealthy relationship with food.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondNovember 19, 2023restriction, eating disorder, diet industry, mood health, mental health, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, disordered eating, eating disorder recovery

Regular Eating for Eating Disorder Recovery: How to Build a Balanced Routine

Establishing regular eating habits forms a fundamental part of overcoming disordered eating. Regular eating is the foundation upon which other positive changes in eating habits are based.

Eating Disorder Support, mental health, nutrition, Practical Tools, Disordered EatingIsabella OsmondOctober 12, 2021regular eating, regular eating schedule, eating disorder recovery, disordered eating recovery, binge eating food anxiety loss of control around food hunger cues emotional eating, recovery tools, mental health and food