as someone in recovery (for bulimia, not anorexia) this is such a helpful video. it’s so nice to have someone to motivate me to continue recovery. today i felt like i had this extreme hunger, and even when i felt full i felt like i had to eat more
thanks so much for this video!! I suffered from anorexia, and while being in recovery I experienced extreme hunger too. I was scared and thought it was a binge-eating-disorder, but after 4 months the extreme hunger stopped and I was soo confused. Your video made me understand what happened
There’s no such thing as binging in recovery. I may have been diagnosed with atypical bulimia, but I don’t believe I’ve ever binged because although I may have had big portions I chose consciously how much to eat and what to eat. Extreme hunger scared me, and being indulgent still scares me but I don’t turn to my ED behaviours in order to cope with feeling full anymore. I don’t believe in meal plans. Once I gave myself permission to eat ‘unhealthy’ foods, I stopped binging.
I started experiencing extreme hunger recently and this is so helpful! It's extremely hard to cope with it but learning more about it and also realising that it is so incredibly common in recovery makes it atleast a bit easier to accept.
This was really helpful! I wish I could have seen it 6 months ago when I first experienced extreme hunger during recovery. My therapist never told me it was a possibility so when it happend I was utterly terrified. The worst part lasted 1-2 weeks and then it got better and better. Also on another note, recovering from anorexia (or any ED) as a man can feel very lonely and isolating. So, if you're a guy and you're reading this comment, know that you're not alone!
You encouraged me to eat some extra rich tea bisks tonight because I can feel my body needs it and it’s hungry. And it’s ok … out of my meal plan but I know I hadn’t eaten enough because my body was just craving food . I’m getting bad hunger just before a possible period . But I don’t like going over my menu plan and going over a certain amount a day . My periods are trying to come back . I’m still at a low bmi. Your words of wisdom here are telling me it’s ok to eat a bit more … that I’m needing to listen to my body’s needs and I know my body is using up all the food I have eaten up , zapping it up for energy and running out because I’ve restricted for so long. I’m trying not to compensate and restrict the next day , it just leads to a cycle like you said. Thank you for your education and words to be kind to myself and listening to my body’s needs. My body is healing and I need to remind myself of this and needs more nutrition.
This helped me so much. I have relapsed lately and I'm doing all this alone for like 3 years and it's hard to stick with it alone. But this video really helped. Ily sm! Thanks you!
@@kc33337 I told my mom finally what I've been going though. And I dint straight up say "I have an ED "but just said basically all the mental and physical symptoms. And she yelled at me telling me all teens want something wrong with them and that I'm playing victim. That literally broke me. All this time I have been keeping to myself and I finally open up and get told basically there is nothing wrong with me.
Told my mom to but she just said she knew,and yeah,I suspected she did but I just dont like to be bothered when anorexic but after I gave in to extreme hunger I felt like its the end of the world,and I feel like crap every waking hour normally im very good at being alone working things out....in a way some part of me wants to heal,and some just wanna stay sick .....sorry,for your mom being this way its not a helpfull response..Megsy recovery helps me a lot she is on a healing journey to.....
@@vitanilange6926 Thank you so much :). I hope you have an amazing recovery! You're body and future self with thank you. Also thank you for the suggestion!
Thank you, this is very helpful. I struggle understanding the difference between extreme hunger and bingeing and your explanation made it clearer. Thank you again !
Omg milly thanks thanks thanksss!!! The part of mentally not satisfied is a big problem for me... im so scared i get a binge eating disorder but hearing it is quite normale makes me calm
Thank you so much Milly!!As someone in recovery I have to say that extreme hunger is not talked about as much as it should be. You explained it perfectly and i started to understand things that nobody has told me about.Thank you so so much Milly this helped me out a lot!!
eva i’m so glad the video helped you! it’s definitely not spoken enough about! i know there’s not a lot of research on it but it’s such a common part of recovery and it’s a shame it’s not discussed with people by more treatment practitioners (who seem scared of it themselves) x anyway, always here 🫶🏻
This is a great video! Extreme hunger felt so scary to me at first but once you just let yourelf actually eat the hunger eventually dies down. It's so scary to give in and go all in but it's so worth the food freedom. Sending lots of love to everybody 💜💜💜
great video, thank you so much for sharing! i can't believe i've never heard about this in my 10+ years of ED recovery. i was always led to believe that my experience of extreme hunger was a symptom of delusional and obsessive thinking. you have no idea how empowering it feels to know, that it's NOT just in my head, that there's biological reasoning behind it too. so thank you for that
What an incredible video! Thank you so much for sharing your experience, Milly! As someone jumping back into recovery, this was so open, honest, and comforting. Thank you!
I really needed to hear that. I never really had an eating disorder but I have been dieting and restricting for 2 Years and it needs to stop. Btw love your earrings ☀️
hi milly wow thank you so much for this. It feels incredibly reassuring from someone who has gone through the same thing and completely understands all the horrible emotions that come after having it. Thank you for not making me feel alone in it x
Thank you so much Milly. I haven't experienced extreme hunger but this was still extremely helpful and exactly the reminder I needed. I technically know everything you said but it just doesnt seem to sink in 😫. It takes a physical health scare to shock me from my complacency. I just hope this time it sticks 😥
oh gosh.. watching that video as i started probably experiencing extreme hunger since a week and making a pizza as i am craving this since months... Feeling less alone
i thought i had a binge ed but it seems i only binge when i restrict myself. its really nice to just hear someone who understands make reason to the misconceptions.
I was so frustrated when they told me in treatment that i should “try and stay inside portion sizes”, when i started respecting and listening to my Extreme hunger - i felt SO guilty and suffered a relapse😔
i struggle with extreme hunger so much and it has caused me to relapse because it scares me but this time instead of doing it alone i have reached out to a team and i now have a treatment team to help me recover 🥳 recovery terrifies me but i can’t wait to get my life back since i’m now on bed rest :( this video is honestly so informative and it will help so many people thank you so much Milly! xx
I relate to that so well. I am in anorexia recovery right now, and I still have moments where I´m scared and my mind tells me to relapse. But we can do it, recovery is so worth it!! let´s do this together
omg i’ve thought that i’m bingeing for this whole time while i was not 😭😭 my dietitian told me that i may have both bulimia and anorexia and gave me a diet and assumed it would be hard for me to eat correctly but i was eating even more BRUHHH…
having a hard time myself and YT just recommended me this vid, i feel so relieved...thought extreme hunger was only physical, but even being full i just keep wanting to eat more, i feel so guilty abt eating all of this and sometimes it feels like im in a quasi-rec when choosing to resist some cravings like having a ton of crackers with butter?? 😭😭 but thanks!! you helped me understand 💗
Oh my gosh! Thank you so much. I’m about a year into my recovery I am back to my normal weight and I’ve got my period back but I just eat and eat and eat and eat and eat and think about food all the time and I can never feel satisfied even when I’m full I’m thinking about what I’m going to eat next and bottomless pit I’m never satisfied and even when my body is satisfied and I fall I still want to keep going in my mind is still not satisfied and I honestly thought the change of going from being a normal ETA to having anorexia to trying to be normal again is too much and I had developed disorder but now I’m hearing this I’m wondering if it’s just this
I’m finding education and information about nutrition and all is a way forward for me in my recovery . Also , facing my fears , feeling it and doing it anyway , keeping on doing it , transforming my mind , my thoughts in practice of doing this every day , using my Journaling , my faith being my main motivation and source of strength and support .
Im giving in to it lately in order to heal after I relapsed into anorexia last year but I still fear it......hmm,can't help thinking if BED is a response to lack of nutrients since some people are very picky eaters who only like junk,and many people also the ones with BED is going on multiple diets so maybe BED is a response to lack of nutrients??
Hey I recently started recovering from anorexia and I can’t tell if I’m just binging after heavily restricting or if I’m getting extreme mental hunger how do I tell the difference xxx
Hey i hope you see this this cause i am/was in recovery for a hear now I’m weight restored an the past couple of months i just ate normal last year I stared recovery and had extreme hunger every day for almost 4 months now its almost half a year later I thought i was recovered but i still have food rules and stuff everyday and the last couple of weeks i keep thinking of food and just want to eat mpre idk if it is normal and idk what to do ?
Hi Milly im in recovery and also going to school (im 14) I have school from 9:00am to 3:00pm and only have 2 short breaks in the morning 10:15 is my first break and 11:30 is my second, ive experienced extreme mental and physical hunger (more mental) throughout my whole recovery process and i cannot honour it properly due to not being able to eat in school other then my breaks so it wont go away, do you have any tips for me?? Thank you for your great video! ❤️
have you heard of the fight or flight response? it’s our body’s stress response when it thinks we are in danger! it might be that because of your ed, food/eating is triggering this response. although it’s called the fight or flight response, there’s actually a new part been added called the freeze response x some peoples response to extreme stress is to freeze up, as you said! highly recommend researching this 🫶🏻
I hear what you're saying but I'm not sure if they could do the experiment in this day and age. I'm not even sure we should take any notice of this because this country was at war for 4 or 5 years which included rationing then the rationing continued for many years afterwards. How do we know these men weren't already in a deficit due to rationing? There really should be long term studies on Anorexics who are recovering.
this isn’t a criticism but i wanted to add that it’s commonly cited because it’s a key study in the field. the same way that when discussing obedience, zimbardos prison experiment is often mentioned, or how becks cognitive theory of depression is still discussed as it formed the basis of our current most evidence based treatment of depression (CBT). Key studies are those which were groundbreaking for their time and whilst perhaps not able to be replicated (given obvious ethical concerns, as mentioned by paula) still have wide real world implications. We can critique a study for being historical and not representing its population accurately whilst also appreciating its usefulness in the field 😊
as someone in recovery (for bulimia, not anorexia) this is such a helpful video. it’s so nice to have someone to motivate me to continue recovery. today i felt like i had this extreme hunger, and even when i felt full i felt like i had to eat more
i believe in u! :)
i’m so proud 🫶🏻 you got this!!
thanks so much for this video!! I suffered from anorexia, and while being in recovery I experienced extreme hunger too. I was scared and thought it was a binge-eating-disorder, but after 4 months the extreme hunger stopped and I was soo confused. Your video made me understand what happened
i’m so so proud of you!! from this comment it does sound like perhaps it was extreme hunger 🫶🏻 gah, glad the video helped!
There’s no such thing as binging in recovery. I may have been diagnosed with atypical bulimia, but I don’t believe I’ve ever binged because although I may have had big portions I chose consciously how much to eat and what to eat. Extreme hunger scared me, and being indulgent still scares me but I don’t turn to my ED behaviours in order to cope with feeling full anymore. I don’t believe in meal plans. Once I gave myself permission to eat ‘unhealthy’ foods, I stopped binging.
this is really important, thank you for sharing your experience 🫶🏻
It's especially hard when you've honoured your exreme hunger and then restrict days after, but this video was extremely helpful
I started experiencing extreme hunger recently and this is so helpful! It's extremely hard to cope with it but learning more about it and also realising that it is so incredibly common in recovery makes it atleast a bit easier to accept.
it’s really scary when you first experience but it’s also a really, really common part of recovery 🫶🏻 you’re never alone, you got this!
This was really helpful! I wish I could have seen it 6 months ago when I first experienced extreme hunger during recovery. My therapist never told me it was a possibility so when it happend I was utterly terrified. The worst part lasted 1-2 weeks and then it got better and better.
Also on another note, recovering from anorexia (or any ED) as a man can feel very lonely and isolating. So, if you're a guy and you're reading this comment, know that you're not alone!
hey milly ty so so much I needed this to anyone here youre not alone and we can push trough even if it feels like its gonna be the end of us ly
absolutely, to anyone reading this - recovery is possible, you got this 🫶🏻
You encouraged me to eat some extra rich tea bisks tonight because I can feel my body needs it and it’s hungry. And it’s ok … out of my meal plan but I know I hadn’t eaten enough because my body was just craving food .
I’m getting bad hunger just before a possible period . But I don’t like going over my menu plan and going over a certain amount a day . My periods are trying to come back . I’m still at a low bmi. Your words of wisdom here are telling me it’s ok to eat a bit more … that I’m needing to listen to my body’s needs and I know my body is using up all the food I have eaten up , zapping it up for energy and running out because I’ve restricted for so long. I’m trying not to compensate and restrict the next day , it just leads to a cycle like you said. Thank you for your education and words to be kind to myself and listening to my body’s needs. My body is healing and I need to remind myself of this and needs more nutrition.
This helped me so much. I have relapsed lately and I'm doing all this alone for like 3 years and it's hard to stick with it alone. But this video really helped. Ily sm! Thanks you!
keep going!! your doing great
@@kc33337 I told my mom finally what I've been going though. And I dint straight up say "I have an ED "but just said basically all the mental and physical symptoms. And she yelled at me telling me all teens want something wrong with them and that I'm playing victim. That literally broke me. All this time I have been keeping to myself and I finally open up and get told basically there is nothing wrong with me.
Told my mom to but she just said she knew,and yeah,I suspected she did but I just dont like to be bothered when anorexic but after I gave in to extreme hunger I felt like its the end of the world,and I feel like crap every waking hour normally im very good at being alone working things out....in a way some part of me wants to heal,and some just wanna stay sick .....sorry,for your mom being this way its not a helpfull response..Megsy recovery helps me a lot she is on a healing journey to.....
@@vitanilange6926 Thank you so much :). I hope you have an amazing recovery! You're body and future self with thank you. Also thank you for the suggestion!
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Thank you, this is very helpful. I struggle understanding the difference between extreme hunger and bingeing and your explanation made it clearer. Thank you again !
it’s really difficult to unpick but i’m glad you found the video helpful 🥰
The whole time I thought I was binging, but this made it so much clearer and made me understand what my body is actually going through. ❤ stay safe!
Omg milly thanks thanks thanksss!!! The part of mentally not satisfied is a big problem for me... im so scared i get a binge eating disorder but hearing it is quite normale makes me calm
Thank you so much Milly!!As someone in recovery I have to say that extreme hunger is not talked about as much as it should be. You explained it perfectly and i started to understand things that nobody has told me about.Thank you so so much Milly this helped me out a lot!!
eva i’m so glad the video helped you! it’s definitely not spoken enough about! i know there’s not a lot of research on it but it’s such a common part of recovery and it’s a shame it’s not discussed with people by more treatment practitioners (who seem scared of it themselves) x anyway, always here 🫶🏻
This is a great video! Extreme hunger felt so scary to me at first but once you just let yourelf actually eat the hunger eventually dies down. It's so scary to give in and go all in but it's so worth the food freedom. Sending lots of love to everybody 💜💜💜
thank you so much milly, extreme hunger is so complex and i’m still trying to figure it all out, so thank you thank you thank you!!!
always here ❤️
great video, thank you so much for sharing!
i can't believe i've never heard about this in my 10+ years of ED recovery. i was always led to believe that my experience of extreme hunger was a symptom of delusional and obsessive thinking. you have no idea how empowering it feels to know, that it's NOT just in my head, that there's biological reasoning behind it too.
so thank you for that
What an incredible video! Thank you so much for sharing your experience, Milly! As someone jumping back into recovery, this was so open, honest, and comforting. Thank you!
i’m really glad that you found it helpful and i’m so proud of you for jumping back into recovery, you got this 🫶🏻
I really needed to hear that. I never really had an eating disorder but I have been dieting and restricting for 2 Years and it needs to stop.
Btw love your earrings ☀️
hi milly wow thank you so much for this. It feels incredibly reassuring from someone who has gone through the same thing and completely understands all the horrible emotions that come after having it. Thank you for not making me feel alone in it x
it’s such a tricky but common part of recovery! but we are never alone 🫶🏻 always here !
Thank you so much Milly. I haven't experienced extreme hunger but this was still extremely helpful and exactly the reminder I needed. I technically know everything you said but it just doesnt seem to sink in 😫. It takes a physical health scare to shock me from my complacency. I just hope this time it sticks 😥
oh gosh.. watching that video as i started probably experiencing extreme hunger since a week and making a pizza as i am craving this since months... Feeling less alone
proud of you ! and i hope the pizza was good 🫶🏻🥳
i thought i had a binge ed but it seems i only binge when i restrict myself. its really nice to just hear someone who understands make reason to the misconceptions.
I was so frustrated when they told me in treatment that i should “try and stay inside portion sizes”, when i started respecting and listening to my Extreme hunger - i felt SO guilty and suffered a relapse😔
oh paula that’s terrible! i’m so sorry you were told this x i hope you are able to achieve a full recovery one day 🫶🏻 always here x
i struggle with extreme hunger so much and it has caused me to relapse because it scares me but this time instead of doing it alone i have reached out to a team and i now have a treatment team to help me recover 🥳 recovery terrifies me but i can’t wait to get my life back since i’m now on bed rest :( this video is honestly so informative and it will help so many people thank you so much Milly! xx
I relate to that so well. I am in anorexia recovery right now, and I still have moments where I´m scared and my mind tells me to relapse. But we can do it, recovery is so worth it!! let´s do this together
omg i’ve thought that i’m bingeing for this whole time while i was not 😭😭 my dietitian told me that i may have both bulimia and anorexia and gave me a diet and assumed it would be hard for me to eat correctly but i was eating even more BRUHHH…
Best video on Extreme hunger I've watched. Very educational and articulate 👏
I needed this wi all my life. Thank you ❤
glad it helped 🥰
having a hard time myself and YT just recommended me this vid, i feel so relieved...thought extreme hunger was only physical, but even being full i just keep wanting to eat more, i feel so guilty abt eating all of this and sometimes it feels like im in a quasi-rec when choosing to resist some cravings like having a ton of crackers with butter?? 😭😭 but thanks!! you helped me understand 💗
Oh my gosh! Thank you so much. I’m about a year into my recovery I am back to my normal weight and I’ve got my period back but I just eat and eat and eat and eat and eat and think about food all the time and I can never feel satisfied even when I’m full I’m thinking about what I’m going to eat next and bottomless pit I’m never satisfied and even when my body is satisfied and I fall I still want to keep going in my mind is still not satisfied and I honestly thought the change of going from being a normal ETA to having anorexia to trying to be normal again is too much and I had developed disorder but now I’m hearing this I’m wondering if it’s just this
I’m finding education and information about nutrition and all is a way forward for me in my recovery . Also , facing my fears , feeling it and doing it anyway , keeping on doing it , transforming my mind , my thoughts in practice of doing this every day , using my Journaling , my faith being my main motivation and source of strength and support .
mad respect for you and a few other recovery accs
thank you reree 🥳🥰
Im giving in to it lately in order to heal after I relapsed into anorexia last year but I still fear it......hmm,can't help thinking if BED is a response to lack of nutrients since some people are very picky eaters who only like junk,and many people also the ones with BED is going on multiple diets so maybe BED is a response to lack of nutrients??
umm as someone who used to have BED i definitely didn’t develop it as a response to malnutrition 💀
Hey I recently started recovering from anorexia and I can’t tell if I’m just binging after heavily restricting or if I’m getting extreme mental hunger how do I tell the difference xxx
Damn this video was great!
I say, as this came out 1 minute ago and haven't started the video yet
Done watching, my standpoint stays. Great and informative video, very carefully put and detailed !!
these comments made me giggle! thank you 🥰 glad you found it helpful!
this is so helpful! thank u lots :( 🌱
i’m so glad ❤️ always here
thank you so so much for this video! it helped a lot 🥺🧡
i’m so glad it helped you 🥰❤️
This was so helpful thank you so much ❤
so so so glad!!
Hey i hope you see this this cause i am/was in recovery for a hear now I’m weight restored an the past couple of months i just ate normal last year I stared recovery and had extreme hunger every day for almost 4 months now its almost half a year later I thought i was recovered but i still have food rules and stuff everyday and the last couple of weeks i keep thinking of food and just want to eat mpre idk if it is normal and idk what to do ?
you are a gem
I'm 4 days into recovering and yesterday I ate so much. I almost threw up 2 times and I put my stomach in excruciating pain
How are you doing now?
Hi Milly im in recovery and also going to school (im 14) I have school from 9:00am to 3:00pm and only have 2 short breaks in the morning 10:15 is my first break and 11:30 is my second, ive experienced extreme mental and physical hunger (more mental) throughout my whole recovery process and i cannot honour it properly due to not being able to eat in school other then my breaks so it wont go away, do you have any tips for me?? Thank you for your great video! ❤️
Thank thank thank you for this
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Why do I start freezing after giving in to this hunger........
have you heard of the fight or flight response? it’s our body’s stress response when it thinks we are in danger! it might be that because of your ed, food/eating is triggering this response. although it’s called the fight or flight response, there’s actually a new part been added called the freeze response x some peoples response to extreme stress is to freeze up, as you said! highly recommend researching this 🫶🏻
I can't believe we are still quoting a study done so many years ago and done on men.
I hear what you're saying but I'm not sure if they could do the experiment in this day and age.
I'm not even sure we should take any notice of this because this country was at war for 4 or 5 years which included rationing then the rationing continued for many years afterwards.
How do we know these men weren't already in a deficit due to rationing?
There really should be long term studies on Anorexics who are recovering.
this isn’t a criticism but i wanted to add that it’s commonly cited because it’s a key study in the field. the same way that when discussing obedience, zimbardos prison experiment is often mentioned, or how becks cognitive theory of depression is still discussed as it formed the basis of our current most evidence based treatment of depression (CBT). Key studies are those which were groundbreaking for their time and whilst perhaps not able to be replicated (given obvious ethical concerns, as mentioned by paula) still have wide real world implications. We can critique a study for being historical and not representing its population accurately whilst also appreciating its usefulness in the field 😊
Thank youuuu xxxxxx
of course 🥰
I can't do this :'(
Is there someone who have experience with the minnie maud method ?