To empower you to overcome eating disorders and create self-like and self-worth. To help you find a sense of purpose, confidence and happiness.
The inner voices of anorexia and bulimia whisper that you'll never be happy until you lose weight, that your worth is measured by how you look, that you can gain control over who you are by having control over eating or how much food stays in you. Your inner diet may also tell you to be on constant diets or to exercise more than is healthy.
Likewise, compulsive eating is a coping mechanism, often related to stress, trauma, or a genetic disorder. This is the opposite end of the spectrum, but it’s just as dangerous. It can even coexist with bulimia, making the signs much harder to detect.
Real happiness and self-esteem come from being comfortable with who you are - and that is only possible if you have a healthy attitude towards your body and how you nourish it. With treatment, support, and self-help strategies, you can overcome your eating disorder and gain true self-confidence.
The resources below can help you form a long term plan to manage or even beat your eating disorder.
For immediate help with eating disorders, you can contact the B-eat Eating Disorders helpline:
Call 0808 801 0711 for the youth line (under 18)
Call 0808 801 0677 for adults (over 18)
Email: fyp@beateatingdisorders.org.uk for the youth line (under 18)
Email: help@beateatingdisorders.org.uk for adults (over 18)
The BEAT phone lines are free, open 365 days a year. Their hours are 9am – 8pm during the week, and 4pm – 8pm on weekends and bank holidays.
Websites Offering Support:
Beat
supports anyone affected by eating disorders or difficulties with food, weight and shape.
Eating Disorders Support
is an organisation providing help and support to anyone affected by an eating problem such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder. It also provides help for those who are caring for or supporting someone with an eating disorder.
National Centre for Eating Disorders
provides information on eating disorders and information on ways and sources to help overcome it.
Books on this subject:
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder
What does it take to successfully beat the challenging issue of recovery from an eating disorder? Written by a therapist and her former patient, now a therapist herself. Hence, these insights combine both therapist and client viewpoints.
Chasing Silhouettes
is the story of how eating disorders pervade all homes—even the seemingly perfect ones. A unique resource, it addresses the whole of the illness: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, providing shocking insight into the disordered eater’s mind. In addition to a stirring personal narrative, it includes advice from some of the nation’s top eating disorder experts, sample prayers for when yours run out, as well as stories of others who’ve battled—and overcome—eating disorders.
Eating Disorders: The Path to Recovery
What is an eating disorder? What are the symptoms? What causes them? And is full recovery possible? Writing from her experience of working with sufferers and drawing extensively on case histories, Dr Middleton explains what eating disorders are and why we develop them. She offers guidance for the road to recovery.
Never Binge Again(tm): Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person. Stop Overeating and Binge Eating and Stick to the Food Plan of Your Choice!
Most contemporary thought on overeating and bingeing focuses on healing and self-love. But people who’ve overcome food and weight issues often report it was more like capturing and caging a rabid dog than learning to love their inner child.
Open the cage even an inch—or show that dog an ounce of fear—and it’ll quickly burst out to shred your healthy eating plans, undoing all your progress in a heartbeat.
From his perspective as a formerly food-obsessed psychologist — and previous consultant to major food manufacturers — Dr. Livingston shares specific techniques for isolating and permanently dis-empowering your “fat thinking self.” He shares his own personal journey in the process.
If you find yourself in one or more of the following situations then this book is for you:
- You feel driven to eat when you’re not hungry (emotional overeating).
- You sometimes feel guilty or ashamed of what you’ve eaten.
- You’ve tried diet after diet with no permanent success.
- You constantly think about food and/or your weight.
- You feel the need to fast and/or severely restrict your food to “make up” for serious bouts of overeating.
- You sometimes feel you can’t stop eating even though you’re full.
- You behave differently with food in private than you do when you’re with other people.
Overcoming Binge Eating: The Proven Program to Learn Why You Binge and How You Can Stop
This book helps you to understand binge eating and bring it under control, whether you are working on your own or with a therapist. It provides step by step guidelines show you how to:
*Overcome urges to binge.
*Gain control over when and what you eat.
*Break free of strict dieting and other habits that may contribute to binge eating.
*Establish healthy, stable eating patterns.
*Improve your body image and reduce the risk of relapse.
This second edition covers body image issues and enhanced strategies for achieving, and maintaining, a transformed relationship with your body and food.
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