#binge-eating disorder

[bladeloverr]

flat stomach for autumn☕🍂˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚

[gh0stgirlv]

Am I the only one who can’t accept compliments? Like, you’re mocking me? You don’t see that I’m fat? Nothing in my body can be pretty if I’m fat.

[liftwellnes]

Binge Eating Disorder (For Parents)

WHAT IS BINGE EATING DISORDER

Almost everyone occasionally finds comfort in food and overeats on occasion. This is totally normal and typical for the fast paced, stressful world that we live in today. Emotional eating can be a way of sometimes coping with stress and is part of normal life. On the other hand, individuals struggling with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) may experience this at a more frequent and extreme level. This may include eating much more than most people would in a sitting on a weekly basis (at least 1 day a week for 3 months), feeling out of control and guilty around food, and eating until uncomfortably full with or without feeling physically hungry. BED is not associated with compensatory behaviors such as excessive exercise, purging, or fasting as is common in other eating disorders such as Anorexia and Bulimia.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

Since many children and teens struggling with BED feel embarrassed or guilty about their food behaviors, many do not reach out for support or share their struggles with family members. It’s important to look for key signs and symptoms that your child may be struggling such as:

Large quantities of food missing, hidden wrappers, and sneaking food

Eating unusually large amounts of food in a specific amount of time, such as over a two-hour period

Rapid weight fluctuations

Regularly skipped meals throughout the day

Frequent isolation and eating in private

Increased feelings of depression, guilt, or shame

HOW TO SUPPORT

Allow all foods to be available in the home. We tend to sometimes place moral values on our food, calling things “good” and “bad.” This is normal in the world that we live in today, full of diet advertisements and toxic food/body culture. It’s important to try to take these words away from food and understand that all foods can be healthy when eating in variety and moderation. By only allowing desserts on special occasions and labeling certain foods as “off limits,” it may trigger kids to eat excessively when given the option since they don’t know the next time they will be “allowed” to have it. It also puts a feeling of guilt for eating “bad” when in reality they are honoring their body’s physical and mental cues for hunger.

Eat consistently throughout the day. Skipping meals may cause your child to feel overly hungry and out of control around food. This is the body’s natural reaction to extreme hunger; it is no longer able to sense its true cues and may end up leading to binging behaviors. Try helping your children with packing lunch for school and asking if they need assistance with preparing breakfast in the morning to keep on a consistent eating schedule.

Speak positively about yourself. Children learn by example and tend to hold onto your words more than you might think. Showing your child that you can love and appreciate your body (and the food you eat) for what it does will help them try to feel the same way, especially with all of the bodily changes during puberty.

Start the conversation. Instead of making statements around food such as “Are you sure you’re hungry for all of that?” and “Do you really want to be eating that?” try reframing your statements to focus on your child’s struggles. Asking questions/making statements such as “How can I support you right now?” or “It looks like you might be struggling, I’m here for you” can be helpful to open the conversation around the triggers and stressors in your loved one’s lives. It can be really difficult to reach out for support especially when feeling shame and guilt around eating patterns and body image. Showing that you care and accept them as they are rather than focusing on the behavior can be helpful for building trust and allowing them the space to talk.

Practice movement as a family. Getting outside together as a family can be a great way to relieve stress and improve relationships and mental health. As the weather gets nicer, try going for walks with the dog, swimming at the beach, or playing sports as a family to continue to practice having an active and fun lifestyle.

Seek treatment. Treatment for eating disorders is readily available by mental health professionals and can include many different courses of action. At Lift, you can seek out treatment that works for you and your loved ones including individual therapy, group therapy, parent support sessions, nutrition therapy, and psychiatry.

References:

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Written by Kelsey Riesbeck, our director of dietary services.

[desultory-suggestions]

It's okay to be scraping by. Even if you would rather be doing better, even if you technically could be doing better. Sometimes the weight of things just pushes us down. Keep moving forward, even if is slow. In time you will be back where you want to be.

[imfartooobsessedwithkpop]

*sighs* gets vibrator to pass them time while restricting

[s1cklysw3et]

wish i was one of those people who starve when their sad.

[emilkaa67motylek]

[1risesareprettylikeme]

NOVEMBER IS GOING TO BE MY MONTH FR.

i’m so sick and tired of binging and gaining and losing the same kilos over and over again, so i’m deciding that November is gonna be my month, i will get back on track i will lose all the disgusting fat and i’ll try to be more active here

Wish me luck

[onceonyourlips]

Binge Triggers I need to avoid

"Just one handful"

Friends offering it to me

"I'll take a bite"

"I'll eat all my calories right now"

"I've already lost a lot of calories”

anything over 150 calories

Boredom

Being up too late

"I already binged, why not keep binging"

Tv and youtube videos

“I can give myself a break.”

"We can share."

"It's only ... calories."

Going downstairs without a plan

[bladeloverr]

need a thigh gap for september

[gh0stgirlv]

When I was 6 I used to fantasised about cutting my fat with scissors, why is everyone so surprised now?

[liftwellnes]

Four Common Types Of Eating Disorders

There is so much I want to convey to you about eating disorders. I have been a student of eating disorder recovery for the past seventeen years, working in the trenches with recovering people and absorbing, night and day, any materials, knowledge or behaviors that could be helpful to them. With this said, I need first to start at the beginning, assuming you are educating yourself for the first time about this fatal disease, and in need of a basic overview of this illness, which manifests in four major forms (below) and currently affects more than 24 million Americans. Eating Disorders are an array of mental disorders that display unusual eating behaviors or habits with serious health consequences. All eating disorders are rooted in an obsession with food, the shape of one’s body or body weight. Fascinatingly, eating disorders are mental health issues that become physical health issues, interfering with every aspect of a person's functionality, with a host of bodily implications as well as cognitive, psychological and social. Eating disorders are a leading cause of death in teenagers in the U.S.

The symptoms of eating disorders can include food restriction, binges on food, and purging by vomiting or by over-exercising. The average age of onset is 18 years-old for both bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa and 21 years old for binge eating disorder. People tend to suffer for a minimum of seven years, if they survive the course of disease. Some are affected throughout the lifespan, spending years in and out of treatment facilities, or worse, never receiving the proper help at all. I will begin my overview by discussing Binge Eating Disorder, which is characterized by recurring binge eating episodes during which a person feels a loss of control and marked distress over his or her eating. Unlike bulimia nervosa, binge eating episodes are not followed by purging, excessive exercise or fasting. As a result, people with binge eating disorder often are overweight or obese.[1]

Bulimia Nervosa is characterized by binge eating (eating large amounts of food in a short time, along with the sense of a loss of control) followed by a type of behavior that compensates for the binge, such as purging (e.g., vomiting, excessive use of laxatives, or diuretics), fasting, and/or excessive exercise. Unlike anorexia nervosa, people with bulimia can fall within the normal range for their weight. But like people with anorexia, they often fear gaining weight, want desperately to lose weight, and are intensely unhappy with their body size and shape.[2]

Anorexia Nervosa is characterized by a significant and persistent reduction in food intake leading to extremely low body weight in the context of age, sex, and physical health; a relentless pursuit of thinness; a distortion of body image and intense fear of gaining weight; and extremely disturbed eating behavior. Many people with anorexia see themselves as overweight, even when they are starved or severely malnourished. [3]

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) – according the 5th edition of the Diagnostic Statistics Manual (DSM-5) is seen in my practice often in the pediatric population. Characterized by an eating or feeding disturbance (e.g., apparent lack of interest in eating or food; avoidance based on the sensory characteristics of food; concern about aversive consequences of eating) as manifested by persistent failure to meet appropriate nutritional and/or energy needs associated with one (or more) of the following: significant weight loss (or failure to achieve expected weight gain or faltering growth in children), significant nutritional deficiency, dependence on enteral feeding or oral nutritional supplements, marked interference with psychosocial functioning. ARFID is made known as such when the disturbance is not better explained by lack of available food or by an associated culturally sanctioned practice, and the eating disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, and there is no evidence of a disturbance in the way in which one’s body weight or shape is experienced. To receive a diagnosis of ARFID, the eating disturbance is not attributable to a concurrent medical condition or not better explained by another mental disorder. When the eating disturbance occurs in the context of another condition or disorder, the severity of the eating disturbance exceeds that routinely associated with the condition or disorder and warrants additional clinical attention. ARFID goes beyond picky eating in toddlers, and needs treatment by an eating disorder professional therapist as well as a specialized nutritionist, and medical monitoring from a pediatrician who is educated in the condition. ARFID is not a phase and can morph into anorexia given the absence of treatment. The information I share is meant to provide a better understanding of four common eating disorders and to dismiss common misconceptions of what eating disorders are. It’s important to note that these are serious medical and mental disorders which do not work themselves out. If you think you have an eating disorder or know someone who might have one, call us today or see a healthcare practitioner who specializes in eating disorders.

See our website at Lift Wellness Group.

[ohtobeskinnyandtiny]

It feels so euphoric when you get the urge to binge or when you’re craving something but you don’t give in and don’t eat after is like the best feeling ever!!!

Don’t give in to the fatty inside you!!

[hakeem0n]

seeing pictures of myself at my lw and realising I no longer look like that:

[desultory-suggestions]

You deserve peace. You deserve love. You deserve patience.

[peachgothskeleton]

Bodycheck from today.

Even though I lost ALL of my ass (I loved my ass), I still feel fat as fuck. I'm gonna kms.