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 aboutThe genetic predisposition, the personality traits, and the trigger that sets it offThe physical toll most people never see: bone density, fertility, heart, thyroid, strokeWhy Cara was at her sickest when she looked her healthiestWhat Ryan's own experience with weight cutting in MMA revealed about disordered eating in sportThe HALT framework, and why overwhelm was always Cara's triggerOrthorexia: the unhealthy obsession with eating healthily that nobody is diagnosing yetWhy 98% of diets fail, and the set point theory that explains everythingOzempic: who it's for, who it isn't, and what Cara is seeing in her clientsHow to raise children with a healthy relationship with food without ever mentioning weightThe division of responsibility, and why finishing your dinner is doing more harm than you thinkMen and eating disorders: Bigorexia, gym obsession and the conversation nobody is havingWhat someone struggling right now needs to hear, and where to get helpRyan 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.Follow: @madeinchaospod | @chaoscurtis🖊️ Sponsored by The Ink Factory, Temple Bar - Ireland's highest rated tattoo studio. theinkfactory.ie | @theinkfactory