# How the Carnivore Diet Healed My 9-Year Eating Disorder | Francis Gunn (Lady and Her Steak)

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Podcast: [Beyond Binge Eating](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-binge-eating-7099183)
Published: 2026-07-02T19:00:00+00:00
Episode link: http://www.BeyondBingeEating.com
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## Resource

In this episode, I sit down with Frances Gunn — Australian carnivore lifestyle enthusiast and the voice behind Lady and Her Steak. Frances spent nine years inside an eating disorder that took her through anorexia, two hospital admissions, binge eating, purging, and alcohol-fueled cycles before she found a way of eating that, by her own account, quieted her hunger signals within a week and eventually restored a menstrual cycle she hadn't had in nearly a decade. She brings a perspective rarely voiced in eating disorder recovery spaces: that for some people, anorexia isn't really about thinness — it's downstream of an unaddressed sugar addiction that no one ever named. Here's what we cover in the episode: The boarding school food environment that lit the fuse — and why Frances believes her sugar addiction came long before her eating disorder ever had a name Why her hospital admissions made things worse, and her argument that refeeding protocols built around high-carbohydrate foods can reinforce the very addiction driving the disorder The binge–restrict–purge–alcohol cycle that followed treatment, and the Allan Carr book that finally helped her quit drinking without relying on willpower The Kelly Brogan-inspired mindset shift — moving from "I have a brain disease I can't influence" to "I am the one who has to heal this" How carnivore quieted her hunger signals within a week, restored her period after nine years, and changed her relationship with food in ways she didn't expect Why she thinks keto can become its own trap for people with food obsession — and how the lack of decisions on carnivore quietly hands back the mental space food used to occupy The full holistic stack around her healing: 8pm bedtimes, spring water, intentional social media use, and the people she choos…

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