I came across your publication after listening to your podcast after coming across a search result somewhere on Google, but that was after I had read 100 reasons to recover somehow posted on Reddit (I'm on Reddit diet, and had deleted various social media accounts -- that's the only fasting/diet I'm doing these days for better recovery).
I came from a finance background, so your explanation of energy debt was finally that made everything clicked.
Theoretically, I knew something was wrong with my brain. I knew my body was shutting down (although it's probably on life-support from various nutritional food and I'm quite discipline for my sleep). My parents, upon rare chance I visited my hometown, quickly noticed my ED and pointed it out, but I ended up fighting with them, defending the "nobility" of this "perfect and clean diet" while "taking no feedback from those with metabolic diseases" while having a very different metabolic disease yet still a disease myself!
I couldn't comprehend how ED could cause irregular heart rhythm, blood sugar swing, and I kept blaming my hormones for not restarting even though "I gave my body food, exercise, and sleep, why am I still sick?"
But then you said about energy "debt", probably in your podcast or some other posts. Bam.
Debt is debt. Debt must be repaid. And then it felt like a revelation. My mind quickly conjured up images/animation such as my action to keep cardio and even ran 5K in winter 2023 (!!! Ikr...) was like sportsbetting and losing, but kept doing it until I had the bare minimum to survive.
The final straw was the keto-pescatarian (!!! Ikr) and everything was accelerated after.
You're doing a noble work, I pray that your writing and podcast spread further and you enjoy doing this work and this sustains you. I can't publish my recovery journey on my Substack at the moment as I want to deal with this privately. I want to keep my "sick" posts and not delete them because they're the artefacts of my thoughts when I was still "in addiction" --> addicted to lose weight, like in adapted to flee from famine hypothesis.
I came across your publication after listening to your podcast after coming across a search result somewhere on Google, but that was after I had read 100 reasons to recover somehow posted on Reddit (I'm on Reddit diet, and had deleted various social media accounts -- that's the only fasting/diet I'm doing these days for better recovery).
I came from a finance background, so your explanation of energy debt was finally that made everything clicked.
Theoretically, I knew something was wrong with my brain. I knew my body was shutting down (although it's probably on life-support from various nutritional food and I'm quite discipline for my sleep). My parents, upon rare chance I visited my hometown, quickly noticed my ED and pointed it out, but I ended up fighting with them, defending the "nobility" of this "perfect and clean diet" while "taking no feedback from those with metabolic diseases" while having a very different metabolic disease yet still a disease myself!
I couldn't comprehend how ED could cause irregular heart rhythm, blood sugar swing, and I kept blaming my hormones for not restarting even though "I gave my body food, exercise, and sleep, why am I still sick?"
But then you said about energy "debt", probably in your podcast or some other posts. Bam.
Debt is debt. Debt must be repaid. And then it felt like a revelation. My mind quickly conjured up images/animation such as my action to keep cardio and even ran 5K in winter 2023 (!!! Ikr...) was like sportsbetting and losing, but kept doing it until I had the bare minimum to survive.
The final straw was the keto-pescatarian (!!! Ikr) and everything was accelerated after.
You're doing a noble work, I pray that your writing and podcast spread further and you enjoy doing this work and this sustains you. I can't publish my recovery journey on my Substack at the moment as I want to deal with this privately. I want to keep my "sick" posts and not delete them because they're the artefacts of my thoughts when I was still "in addiction" --> addicted to lose weight, like in adapted to flee from famine hypothesis.
But happy to know you and your writing.