This workbook is designed as an active guide to recovering from an eating disorder. It aims to provide you with information about eating disorders and the factors that keep them going, and to teach you strategies to make changes to your behaviour and thinking in order to recover. These modules are designed to be completed in order, and we recommend that you complete each module before moving on to the next.

Module 1: What are Eating Disorders?

This module introduces you to eating disorders, their impact on physical, psychological and social functioning, and some of the factors that can lead to the development of an eating disorder.

Module 2: What Keeps Eating Disorders Going?

This module takes you through the key factors that keep eating disorders going and introduces you to the ways in which this workbook will address each of these factors.

Module 3: Understanding the Number on the Scale

This module discusses the many factors that influence the number on the scale, explores how much control people really have over their weight, and introduces Weekly Weighing.

Module 4: Self-monitoring

This module introduces self-monitoring, a key strategy that assists you to record your eating behaviours, thoughts, and feelings in real time, focusing on patterns occurring throughout each week.

Module 5: Food and Energy

This module discusses the relationship between what you eat and your energy levels, highlighting the impacts of low and high energy and guiding you through understanding how your own eating impacts your energy levels.

Module 6: Eating for Recovery - Part 1

This module introduces you to ‘Eating for Recovery’, focusing on establishing regular and adequate nutritional intake, and providing guidelines for change in these areas.

Module 7: Eating for Recovery - Part 2

This module focuses on another aspect of ‘Eating for Recovery’, the variety of your nutritional intake, highlighting the importance of tackling rigid food rules and experimenting with feared foods.

Module 8: Binge Eating

This module provides information about binge eating and introduces strategies for reducing and ceasing this behaviour.;

Module 9: Purging

This module provides information about purging and introduces strategies for reducing and ceasing this behaviour.

Module 10: Driven Exercise

This module provides information about driven exercise and introduces strategies for developing a more healthy and balanced relationship with moving your body.

Module 11: Body Image 1 - Body Checking

This module discusses body checking and uses experiments to examine whether body checking is as helpful as you think and how we can reduce it.

Module 12: Body Image 2 - Body Avoidance

This module discusses body avoidance and introduces exposure experiments to reduce body avoidance.

Module 13: Core Beliefs

This module introduces core beliefs, discussing the role these play in maintaining eating disorder behaviours and introducing strategies to challenge them.

Module 14: Maintaining Your Gains and Dealing with Setbacks

This final module summarises the key strategies from the workbook and guides you through developing a plan for maintaining your gains and dealing with setbacks.

Appendix: Getting Educated about Eating Disorders

This is an education pack designed to be printed and used alongside the Break Free from ED workbook.

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Change Process Balance Sheet

Tackling Avoided Foods

Self-Monitoring Form