Real Health Radio 357: Planning vs Flexibility, Eating “Bad” Food, Dealing With Numbers on the Scale, and Recovery During Menopause
Mar 11, 2026
Practical strategies for balancing planning and flexibility during recovery. Tips for managing missed meals, urges for “bad” foods, and fears around binging. Guidance on supporting an adult child through weight restoration and spotting when recovery habits are actually harmful. Discussion of recovery challenges during perimenopause and coping with rising numbers on the scale.
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Scarcity Mindset Is Often The Eating Disorder
- Scarcity thinking about food often signals the eating disorder rather than true financial necessity.
- Chris reframes food as essential input for energy, cognition, hormones, bone health and quality of life, not a wasteful expense.
Ask How To Support Don’t Monitor Weight
- Ask your adult daughter how you can best support her and co-design roles instead of monitoring weight directly.
- Chris recommends a calm, curious conversation: ask what she wants you to do and what responsibilities each of you hold.
Use Directional Goals To Expose ED Tricks
- Check the direction of change to spot ED-manipulated 'pro-recovery' behaviors: true recovery usually increases nourishment, variety or life engagement.
- Chris suggests setting binary recovery goals (clear yes/no) to remove gray areas the eating disorder exploits.