Conversations Deciding to live—recovery from a decade long battle with anorexia
Dec 3, 2025
Lexi Crouch, a clinical nutritionist and eating-disorders recovery coach, shares her incredible journey of battling anorexia for a decade. She recalls her harrowing experiences, including multiple hospitalizations and facing death, which became a spiritual turning point. Lexi discusses the role of yoga in her recovery and how it helped her reconnect with her body. Now, she empowers teens to overcome their struggles while advocating for empathy and understanding in recovery. Her insights highlight the possibility of full recovery and the joys of modeling balanced food attitudes for her daughter.
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Early Food Secrets And Shame
- Lexi hid condensed milk under her bed as a child and felt both pleasure and shame around sweets.
- Diet culture and household rules taught her food was reward or punishment, seeding lifelong disordered eating.
Structure Became A Coping Strategy
- Structure and rules appealed to Lexi because her people-pleasing, perfectionist mind believed formulas guaranteed success.
- That literal, black-and-white thinking turned healthy discipline into a coping strategy for anxiety and unmet needs.
Taken From Exams To Hospital
- During exams a school nurse intercepted Lexi and she was taken straight to hospital, told to eat before she could go home.
- She spent weeks in a dark ward with minimal contact, realising for the first time she had lost control to an illness she didn't fully understand.
