ON AWAKENING

"Only eat if you're hungry." For most of my life, that statement felt like a moral imperative. If I ate when my tummy wasn't grumbling,...

Barriers I felt to gaining weight, how I found the willingness to do it anyway, and practical tips for making the weight gain process easier

What will happen to the subclinical eating disorders and ill-informed diets that many of us spent the last year perfecting?

This is my first YouTube video, and the very first time I get to say "like and subscribe!"

"I spent a year or two in a constant state of inebriation, besides those moments when I was sober enough to find some food and throw it up.”

Going shirtless to the gym is my deliberate exercise in being aggressively, pointedly imperfect, and daring others to make it weird.

September 19th will mark one year since I've tried to lose weight.

Food and body don’t have to be your only hobbies. I pulled this quote from Instagram back in January of 2018. Yesterday, I found it in my...

I think most everyone is grappling with who they are minus what they can do.

Today I stepped on the scale at my gym and saw a brand-new number. It was 17 pounds higher than the number I saw in September. It was...

Part of me wants to tell you what it has been like to gain weight. The fact that I’m larger now than I was four months ago is fairly...

It’s not like me to begin an interview by talking about myself. Typically, these interviews are a welcome and deliberate break from total...

Lindsey’s earliest memory is not her own. At least, not really. I typically begin interviews by asking people their earliest memory...

As a child, Kelsey carved a hole in the box spring of her bed. That's where she hid the wrappers, willing the evidence of her appetite to...

Sequoia is objectively cool. I would tell you why, but I don’t need to. Here’s a picture instead. Her story starts like that of many...

When Hannah was 9, she sat on a school bus clutching a stuffed animal. It was a soft little pig. A boy on the bus gave her a sidelong...

Typically, when I think about eating disorders, I focus on the similarities. Rigid rules, preoccupation with food, secret behaviors, body...

I’ve wondered...and wondered...and wondered… about the extent to which recovery from alcoholism mirrors recovery from eating disorders....

Moon isn’t much of a hippie. In fact, her name isn’t Moon. That was the name she requested. I asked for her pseudonym, and she said...

Ever since I began recovering from my eating disorder, I've just wanted to talk about it. Unfortunately, the average person’s reaction is...