Eating Disorders
By: Brian HarmonTotal Views: 471, Word Count: 654,
Eating disorders can be explained as the entrance of self critical and negative feelings and thoughts in your mind about food and body weight. These thoughts reflect in your eating habits and disturb your daily activities and body functions. Eating disorders are common in women, but boys have also seen to be affected.
Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are common in U.S. Kids hide eating disorders from their parents. Anorexia and bulimia are the two types of eating disorders.
· Anorexia: People with anorexia always have the fear of weight gain as well as imprecise view for body size and shape. They restrict their food by fasting, excessive exercise and dieting. They are always obsessive about what they are eating. They are conscious about calories. They eat food in small amounts.
· Bulimia: A person who has bulimia may undergo weight fluctuations. They don’t experience the low weight problem like anorexia.
These both type of disorders include excessive exercise and consciousness about the food. Though both types don’t have much difference; people with anorexia are usually thin and bulimia person is overweight or has normal weight. Eating disorders generally start in the teenage. It occurs with depression and substance abuse.
If you want to cure your eating disorder, then first of all admit that you have one. If you are still thinking that road to happiness, success and confidence is losing your weight, then it’s not true. If you are determined, then it is not difficult to get rid of these eating disorders. It mostly depends giving up unhealthy eating behaviors. You should be ready to rediscover your diet, unhealthy behaviors and exercise routine.
Let’s look at some simple, but important recovery tips:
· Listen to your feelings
· Listen to your body
· Trust yourself and love yourself
· Enjoy life again as you used to
· Accept yourself
Eating Disorder Treatment
· Gain support from your friends, family, school counselor or work colleague as a first step. Discuss your situation with anyone you trust in a quiet and comfortable place. It’s important to have patience. Take people in confidence and ask them to help you out during this recovery process.
· Ask your family doctor for referral. You can even check with medical centers or ask your school counselor. It is better if you find a professional counselor. Anorexia and bulimia can be drastically dangerous if you are underweight. In that case you might need to take medical treatment. Remember your well being is more important than looking good.
· Once you have controlled your problem, you can plan a long-term recovery system for disorder treatment. You can include in your treatment plan the following points:
1. Eating disorder education
2. Time to time nutritional counseling
3. Family therapy
4. Therapy in individual groups
5. Medical observation
6. Inpatient treatment
· Follow the most effective treatment programs. It will not only help you cure symptoms and destructive eating habits, but also help you to find root causes and cure them. Moreover, there are various online programs to help you out too.
· Therapy is also necessary to treat anorexia and bulimia. In various ways, therapists can help you. You should discuss your problems and goals with therapists, so that he/she can plan the therapy that is suitable for you.
· You should be more aware to use food to deal with your emotions. The therapist will help you to recognize your emotions and how you can prevent them from disrupting your routine. This will also help you to maintain healthy diet and weight.
· You should eat healthy. A nutritionist can’t make changes in your habit overnight. So it is more important to stick to the plan you are following.
Curing eating disorders is all about developing healthy relationship with food. Follow the tips above and you are ready to have a sound body and mind.
About the Author
Brian Harmon is a General Health Practitioner. He has an MD degree and has worked in different Medical Clinics of Texas for 25 long years
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