Comments on: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:36:53 +0000

Hi
Yes,that’s right people with eating disorders have distorted body image and distorted assosiation with feelings of pleasure, self-control, self-identity with food.
So, the question is – how do you go about changing these distorted associations with food and what must exactly be done to get the sufferer to see other avenues for themselves other than their present predicament. More importantly can we get the sufferer to change at all?

The answer – Yes, we can.

But how can we do it? – We need to change the meaning she/he has attached to food, to break the endless cycle they find themselves in on to a totally different one: time consuming yes, but not impossible.
Actually, success with any Psychotherapy depends on how quickly people can change the meaning they attach to different things in their life. This is what all professionals try to do although their methods change accordingly to their techniques. But and unfortunately most Psychotherapists dwell on the negative by rehashing the past. IT DOESN’T WORK!

The thing is you don’t have to go to professional to make these changes – you can do it yourself if you know How to change the meaning of association, the sufferer has with food.

Here are three Fundamentals to create a new meaning in your life (in your case about food and eating disorders):

1) Get leverage.
2) Interrupt the pattern.
3)Create a new association.

By: kristina

kristina — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:31:44 +0000

I’ve found this blog, written by a mother, thoughtful and thought-provoking:

http://www.eatingwithyouranorexic.blogspot.com/

By: Lively Women » March Is National Nutrition Month! Do Your Choices Make the Grade?

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:53:37 +0000

[...] National Eating Disorders Awareness Week may be coming to a close, but it’s National Nutrition Month all month long. How are you doing in that area? Are you eating right? Are you giving your body everything it needs to function at its best? [...]

By: Kristen King

Kristen King — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:05:08 +0000

Sounds like you’re on the right track with your kiddo. That’s a good thing. It’s wonderful that you’re starting so early! Living a healthy lifestyle should be something that we all do all the time.

By: Char

Char — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:07:45 +0000

Kristen – very well put. One of the things that people with disordered eating have such a huge issue with is body image – it is distorted.

I was having a discussion with my 8 year old about why some people are overweight. We talked about how you have to eat healthy and get enough exercise. I said that I don’t eat as healthy or exercise as much as I did before I was a mom, but need to keep working on it. Her response – you are fine Mom.

I was very tall and lanky as a teen yet I thought I was fat. In retrospect – I wore a size 6 (gasp) because I was tall not because I was fat. My best friend was a 2 because she was 8″ shorter than me. For some reason that logic didn’t make sense to me as a teen.