The BED Post

The Binge Eating Disorder Recovery blog

  • Genocide

    How do you sleep at night? How do you live with yourself? How do you call yourself civilised? How do you not see that this Is genocide? These are not terrorists. They are defenceless children, Starving, thirsty, homeless children. Children orphaned by your bombs, Your genocide. Why don’t you hear their cries? Why do you…

  • Fibromyalgia isn’t just pain

    It’s #FibromyalgiaAwarenessDay. Here, I try to explain what fibromyalgia is, in my personal experience. It’s constant fatigue that never goes away. It’s spending weeks recovering from a big event. It’s feeling like you’ve done 10 workouts when you did a simple chore. It’s migraines, stomach cramps, bladder issues. It’s shower water feeling like tiny needles….

  • Dump The Scales Speech

    Yesterday, 27th April 2024, I had the honour of speaking at the #DumpTheScales march in London. For those who couldn’t attend (or hear over the helicopter above our heads), here is my speech. I lived with an eating disorder for over 40 years, mostly binge eating disorder, or BED. I think I first binged around…

  • Lies

    Lies A short poem about a day in the life of an eating disorder for #worldpoetryday Content warning: eating disorder thoughts and behaviours.

  • A book launch and the importance of hope.

    It’s been an exciting week here at the BED Post blog! I was lucky enough to be invited to the launch of a new book, Eating Disorders Don’t Discriminate, at YouTube’s London headquarters, and to meet some amazing people who have inspired me over the years. Going in, I had no idea what to expect….

  • Does restriction cause eating disorders?

    There’s been a lot of debate about restriction causing eating disorders recently. Now I’m not a scientist. I’m someone in recovery from an ED. Someone with over 40 years of experience of eating disorder behaviours. Was my illness caused by restriction? It was a potential factor, but not the main cause. Did restriction keep me…

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Welcome to the BED Post!

This site and its contents are based on 4 decades of lived experience with an eating disorder, and the long and difficult journey to recovery.

Here at the BED Post, we welcome anyone wanting to know more about Binge Eating Disorder and eating disorders in bigger bodies. People with higher BMI make up the vast majority of eating disorder sufferers, in direct contradiction to the image portrayed by the mainstream media.

We aim to support and advocate for this majority, raise awareness, and challenge the weight stigma faced by those suffering from an eating disorder in a bigger body.

And last, but by no means least, we want to bring hope that eating disorder recovery is possible. Because with the right treatment and support, it truly is.

Sharon

Blogger and eating disorder campaigner