Hello, lovely viewers of Joy’s blog! I’m Lucy, and I’m so very happy to be guest-posting on JoyfullJoyFood. Joy is one of my closest friends, and I feel so lucky to know such an inspiring, wacky, wonderful woman. Big love to you, Miss JoyfullJoy! We thought it would be nice to do a post about…
Tag: eating disorders
How to help your body image during QUARANTINE….
Warning: If you’ve come to this blog post today looking for dieting tips, exercise tips, flat stomach tips etc…. You have really come to the wrong place. You might as well leave now. Or Stay and have a read if you’re curious. As you may have noticed in yourselves during quarentine, it is impossible to…
Dear Anyone Suffering in Silence with an Eating Disorder…
Dear Anyone Suffering in Silence with an Eating Disorder, You are not alone. This is what I want to remind you to begin with. You. Are. Not. Alone. This must be a really scary time for you. And you must feel like you are crazy and this is all really stupid. You’re not crazy and…
What DIET CULTURE actually does to your body… – Plum and Hazelnut Overnight Oats
Today I have a hospital appointment. It’s not for my mental health. It’s for my stomach. I was diagnosed with IBS as a young teenager. But anorexia and the destructive habits I engaged in (diet pills and laxatives to name a few) have only made it worse. Recently I shared on my Instagram stories, the…
Dear anybody who hates their body…
Dear anybody who hates their body, Whether you be a teenage girl or boy, Someone in their twenties, Or someone in your sixties. Hating your body is an easy choice. It’s what we are taught to do. With advertisements. With the media. With the celebrities we see on screen. With diet culture. With exercise classes….
Small Seemingly Meaningless Acts of Self Care
I always assumed that there was a ‘recovered’. That once you got better from a mental health illness, that that was IT. You were a normal person. You didn’t have to worry about it again. You could just do WHATEVER THE BLOODY HELL YOU WANTED. Work 40 plus hours a week. Drink as much as…
Let them eat CAKE – Coffee and Walnut Cake Oatmeal
Here is a funny story about cake. And as a lot of funny stories begin, I’m going to start it with the sentence…. ‘When I was severely anorexic….’ (Hilarious right? No but seriously stay with me) I was about to collapse and be taken into hospital for the second time but before that it was…
Why you should eat a BURGER for BRUNCH…
YOLO The End. Last year, me and one of my best friend’s Jonathan (Jesus wept – how many best friends do you have?) decided to make it our PERSONAL MISSION to have NON BRUNCH ITEMS for BRUNCH. Some people set themselves yearly goals to further their career. Or travel more. Or meet the love of…
(Low Sugar) Carrot Cake Oatmeal : How to stop ABUSING YOURSELF with FOOD.
When your mental health is BAD or your MOOD is LOW, do you A) Deprive yourself of FOOD, STARVING YOURSELF and PUNISHING yourself? B) Lose your appetite completely and FORGET to eat? C) Binge eat turning to all the DELICIOUS and ‘TRASHY’ comfort foods, eating so much that your body HURTS and you HATE yourself?…
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