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Eating Disorder Awareness: resources for friends and family

February 28, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Eating Disorder Awareness: resources for friends and familyEating Disorder Resources: how to help a loved one with an eating disorder

I recently polled my audience to find out how many people knew a loved one struggled with or had struggled with an eating disorder themselves. The overwhelming response (94%) was "yes," which considering it is topic I frequently talk about is not so surprising. However what did surprise me was that fact that as many as 50% of the people polled didn't know how to help a struggling friend or loved ... Read More

Achieving Balance after Bulimia: How I left my disordered past behind

August 22, 2021 • 16 Comments

I think we all want to achieve balance in our lives. At times it seems illusive: we want less stress, but we don’t want to feel disconnected. We want to make more money, but we don’t want to lose time with our family. Balance means different things to different people and to a former bulimic balance is difficult terrain to navigate. Bulimia is a game of extremes: you binge on large amounts of ... Read More

How to Help a Loved One with an Eating Disorder

January 12, 2022 • 19 Comments

How to Help a Loved One with an Eating Disordereating disorder recovery

My husband Mark and I have talked about his side of my nine-year struggle with bulimia. With nearly eight years of sobriety, I'm in a place now where I don't feel embarrassed by the details of my past. Yes, it still makes me cringe but it has shaped who I am today. The struggle has built strength. And for that, I can appreciate my journey, though I would not wish it on anyone. Mark has been by my ... Read More

7 Steps for Intuitive Eating during the Holidays

November 25, 2021 • 3 Comments

For nine years I waged war on my body and my weight in the form of anorexia and bulimia. For me it was a year-round battle, but the Holidays were especially hard. But “hard” isn’t even the right word, the Holidays were a time of anxiety, fear, guilt and depression. The Holidays were a perfect storm for me: all the food that I was fighting against right there in front of me from the end of November ... Read More

What Changed: How a 9 year battle with bulimia came to an end

September 16, 2021 • 15 Comments

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How did you stop? It's a question I get asked frequently by women who are in the midst of a struggle that I know all to well. Though the memory of it has faded, when I close my eyes and think back to where I was almost six years ago my heart aches for the woman I used to be. I was trapped. A prisoner to the addiction of bulimia. Out of control and unable to stop my destructive behavior, every ... Read More

Don’t be Afraid: National Eating Disorder Awareness Week

February 23, 2022 • 8 Comments

I am often asked "what changed?" "How did you go from being bulimic to recovering and finding freedom?" It question that demands an in depth answer. I always give that answer to the best of my ability to anyone who asks. And each time I talk about my recovery from a nine-year struggle with bulimia and offer advice it always starts with the statement: don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to ask for ... Read More

Guilt Game

July 31, 2021 • 31 Comments

Guilt Game

There was a time when I was incredibly unhappy. My husband would ask, "what's wrong?" and my answer would always be "I just feel so fat" or "I've made myself throw up the past few days." So often was this my response that my husband didn't really need to ask, he already knew. That was, what feels like ages ago...a different-person-ago. Now when my husband asks "what's wrong," my response ... Read More

How An Ex-Bulimic Handles the Holidays

November 21, 2021 • 3 Comments

I used to dread Holidays. It had nothing to do with family and everything to do with me and my relationship with food. A bulimic does not handle Holidays (and all the food that they entail) well. I knew, no matter how hard I tried, I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to binge or purge, so in a way I planned on it. The binge would start at Thanksgiving in November, continue with Christmas ... Read More

Confession

November 12, 2021 • 16 Comments

For the past two weeks I have been counting calories. As someone with a history of an eating disorder this can be a dangerous thing. For this very reason, as a rule, I don't count calories. But two weeks ago I realized I would not be returning to running as quickly as I expected and I began to doubt my body's ability to get back to its pre-pregnancy weight without my normal activity level. I ... Read More

Life After Bulimia

June 6, 2022 • 13 Comments

So what does freedom from an eating disorder look like? In my last post I talked about the freedom that I now have from bulimia. But “freedom” is a bit vague. It can be frustrating When you are actively in recovery, it can be frustrating for people who have already recovered to toss around words like “freedom.” When I was in recovery I always found myself wondering, How did you get there? and What ... Read More

Hi! I'm Sarah, the girl behind RunFarGirl. I'm a wife, mom, runner and defeater of bulimia. I share all of it here on my blog.

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