#190: What If I Never Stop Eating… or Gaining Weight?

One of the biggest fears in eating disorder recovery is not actually the food.

It’s this:

“What if I start eating properly… and I never stop?”

“What if my extreme hunger never goes away?”

“What if I just keep gaining and gaining weight?”

In this episode, I answer exactly that.

We talk about why a body can stabilise without necessarily stabilising at the weight your eating disorder would choose, why humans naturally exist in very different body sizes, what happens to extreme and mental hunger when food is genuinely abundant again, and why trying to control the outcome can keep the scarcity cycle going.

I also talk about overshoot, physical fullness versus mental hunger, food obsession, restriction disguised as “health,” and why recovery eventually has to become less about controlling your body and more about teaching it that food is no longer going anywhere.

If you’ve ever thought: “Everyone else might recover, but what if I’m the one who never stops eating?”, then this episode is for you.

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