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Diet

Welcome to the diet archive. If you’ve clicked this tag, then you’re interested in quickly finding all the articles that are related to this topic. If so, then you’re in the right place.

Here you’ll find all the articles that have been tagged to be about diet or to contain information about this topic.

Articles here may include personal accounts as well as tips and information on the subject.

The Truth About Monotonous Eating: It’s Not Just Boring

1 April 20252 April 2025 by Unwanted Life
A photo of a White woman in an orange top, watching an orange TV in an orange room, eating orange coloured food to represent the topic of the article - The Truth About Monotonous Eating: It's Not Just Boring

Reading Time: 7 minutesMonotonous eating is a habit that exists for many reasons. While it can be boring to live with this eating habit, that’s rarely an issue on its own

Categories Advice, General, Health, Learning Disabilities and Difficulties, Me, Mental Health, ResearchTags Body Image, Diet, Eating Disorders, What is...12 Comments

CBT-E: The Surprising Benefits Of Maintaining An Eating Schedule

4 June 202427 September 2023 by Unwanted Life
A photo of a woman with Down's syndrome eating a snack outside to represent the topic of the article - CBT-E: The Surprising Benefits Of Maintaining An Eating Schedule

Reading Time: 5 minutesAs CBT-E has shown, having an eating schedule and a meal planner can be very beneficial to our overall health. Come find out why

Categories Advice, General, Health, Mental Health, ResearchTags Diet, Eating Disorders, Men's Health, Reactive Hypoglycaemia, Self-Care, Women's Health10 Comments

Orthorexia, The Hidden Eating Disorder Linked To Healthy Eating

9 June 20244 August 2021 by Unwanted Life
A woman in a large kitchen making dinner with fresh and healthy ingredients to represent the topic of the article - Orthorexia, The Hidden Eating Disorder Linked To Healthy Eating

Reading Time: 7 minutesOrthorexia is an eating disorder that does a brilliant job of hiding in plain sight and often co-occurs with other eating disorders

Categories General, Health, Me, Mental Health, ResearchTags Diet, Eating Disorders, Keto55 Comments

Snapping Rubber Bands: The Ills Of Old TV Tropes

10 June 202431 March 2021 by Unwanted Life
A photo of a young persons hand pulling back a rubber band ready to shoot it off with the article title - Snapping Rubber Bands: The Ills Of Old TV Tropes - in the top right corner of the photo

Reading Time: 5 minutesSnapping rubber bands was a fairly common thing I saw on TV and in movies as I was growing up, but is it actually good for your mental health?

Categories Advice, General, Learning Disabilities and Difficulties, Mental Health, TherapyTags Coping Strategies, Diet, Media, Self-Harm64 Comments

Keto: A New Approach To Reactive Hypoglycaemia

12 June 202422 April 2020 by Unwanted Life
The image was split in two down the middle with the left image being of a white man holding vegetables and the left image being of a white man cutting up meat to represent - Keto: A New Approach To Reactive Hypoglycaemia

Reading Time: 6 minutesDue to conflicting advice about reactive hypoglycaemia, often coming from professionals, this article outlines how keto might help manage it

Categories Advice, General, Health, Me, ResearchTags Diet, Eating Disorders, Keto, Reactive Hypoglycaemia32 Comments

Hypo Management: Meal Replacement And Protein Bars

14 June 20248 January 2020 by Unwanted Life
The image is split into two main half's, the first half is of photo's of five different meal replacement and protein bars. The second half is of a pile of homemade nut and fruit bars with both halves representing - Hypo Management: Meal Replacement And Protein Bars

Reading Time: 8 minutesCan meal replacement and protein bars help manage hypos and hypoglycemia? To try and find out, I decided to run an experiment on myself

Categories General, Health, MeTags Diet, Reactive Hypoglycaemia16 Comments

Health Experiments: An Investigation Into My Poor Health

16 June 20249 October 2019 by Unwanted Life
A closeup photo of someone using a a microscope with the title of the article - Health Experiments: An Investigation Into My Poor Health - across the top of the image

Reading Time: 12 minutesTo try to find the cause of my recent months of debilitating health problems, I decided to run some health experiments on myself. This is what happened

Categories General, Health, MeTags Diet, Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD), Reactive Hypoglycaemia13 Comments

Body Image: An Overview For Mental Health Awareness Week

18 June 202412 May 2019 by Unwanted Life
A photo of a skinny white man standing behind a lorry with the title of the article - Body Image: An Overview For Mental Health Awareness Week - across the top of the photo

Reading Time: 13 minutesIn honour of mental health awareness week and its chosen subject, body image, this article will look at a selection of body image disorders

Categories Advice, General, Mental Health, ResearchTags Body Image, Diet, Eating Disorders, Men's Health4 Comments

Dieting To Misery: Being Overweight

18 June 20245 May 2019 by Unwanted Life
A black and white photo of a woman measuring their waistline with the article - Dieting To Misery: Being Overweight - across the top of the photo

Reading Time: 5 minutesMy first-hand account of trying to lose weight by dieting, but what I found was that I was dieting to misery. Is weight loss anyway worth it?

Categories General, Health, Me, Mental HealthTags Depression, Diet, Eating Disorders, Fitness10 Comments

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