I’m clearly fatter, but I don’t mind. Don’t care, even. — from my diary a few months into recovery How do you cope with getting fatter? How did I, really? I get asked this a lot, in different guises, ...

The honest answer is: I don’t know. In the summer of 2008, when I started eating 500 calories a day more than I had for years, I was as frightened of getting fat, as is everyone with anorexia. A year ...