The Eating Disorder Expert Who Recovered After 22 Years and Why Ozempic Scares Her - Cara O'Loughlin

It's Not About the Food. A Life Coach Who Spent 22 Years
in an Eating Disorder Explains What It's Really About.


On the night her mum died, Cara O'Loughlin was 15 years old. That
same night, she picked up her first eating disorder behaviour.
What followed was 22 years of anorexia, bulimia, binge eating,
exercise addiction, a stroke at 29, osteoporosis, infertility
warnings, and eventually, full recovery.


Today, Cara is a life coach specialising in eating disorder
recovery, a yoga teacher, and one of the clearest and most
credible voices on why these patterns start and what it actually
takes to break them. This is one of the most important episodes
Made in Chaos has ever recorded.


What we get into:


Why eating disorders are never about food, and what they're
really about

The genetic predisposition, the personality traits, and the
trigger that sets it off

The physical toll most people never see: bone density,
fertility, heart, thyroid, stroke

Why Cara was at her sickest when she looked her healthiest

What Ryan's own experience with weight cutting in MMA
revealed about disordered eating in sport

The HALT framework, and why overwhelm was always Cara's
trigger

Orthorexia: the unhealthy obsession with eating healthily
that nobody is diagnosing yet

Why 98% of diets fail, and the set point theory that explains
everything

Ozempic: who it's for, who it isn't, and what Cara is seeing
in her clients

How to raise children with a healthy relationship with food
without ever mentioning weight

The division of responsibility, and why finishing your dinner
is doing more harm than you think

Men and eating disorders: Bigorexia, gym obsession and the
conversation nobody is having

What someone struggling right now needs to hear, and where to
get help



Ryan Curtis is a former Irish MMA fighter who was paralysed from
the neck down and told he would never walk again. Made in Chaos
exists to platform guests who've turned adversity into
hard-earned wisdom worth sharing.


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