50 Shades of Grey on Eating Disorder Myths with Anne Richardson

In this week's episode of Full of Beans Han is joined by Anne Richardson. Anne is a Registered Nutritional Therapist, lecturer and supervisor. She has been practising for more than ten years and exclusively works in the field of disordered eating. Anne suffered with anorexia in her teens and now draws from her lived experience to blend her knowledge of nutrition with her CBT skills. She works with people all over Europe to help them achieve food freedom. She is also invested in helping other practitioners work with disordered eaters as she recognises that general nutritional advice can be extremely damaging to disordered eaters. Anne is also a mum, a maker of all things and especially a keen baker.

This week, we discuss:

• The truth about eating late at night and weight gain
• Why your brain needs carbohydrates to sleep
• The truth about pasta and couscous
• How black-and-white thinking harms recovery
• Mental vs. physical hunger: how restriction plays into cravings
• Normalising emotional eating
• Finding balanced nutrition in recovery

Timestamps:

• 05:30 – What a nutritionist does in ED recovery
• 14:00 – The “don’t eat after 6pm” myth
• 21:00 – Mental vs physical hunger
• 30:00 – The truth about fear foods like pasta
• 39:00 – Why emotional eating isn’t bad
• 43:00 – Finding balance in recovery

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode discusses lived experiences of eating disorders, restrictive behaviors, and mentions of specific foods. Please take care when listening.

Resources & Links:

• Follow Anne on Instagram @theeatingdisordernutritionist
• Visit her website theeatingdisordernutritionist.co.uk

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Sending positive beans your way, Han 💛