Tag: Eating disorder
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Being good all day then binge eating at night? Try this
This tried-and-tested binge eating hack will transform the way your clients (and yourself) perceive binge foods “I’m really good for most of the day. It’s the evenings where I lose it. I’ll open a packet and it’s like I can’t stop eating until it’s all gone. I try really hard not to keep those foods…
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Are eating disorders contagious?
From tics to fainting, strange behaviours can spread through social contagion. Eating disorders are not exempt. How can we combat the spread? In 2011, a cheerleader at a small high school in the small town of Le Roy, New York starting twitching and spasming on and off. A few weeks later, the captain of the…
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BMI is broken – and it’s hurting people
BMI is a flawed proxy health measure, but its frequent use can feel out of your control. What can you do to mitigate the harms of BMI? Once upon a time, a woman in her 30s nervously shuffled into her doctor’s office. Her obsession with her weight was at an all-time high and she knew…
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You’re not addicted to food
Dietitian Lucy Carey explains why binge eating isn’t food addiction, but rather a response to emotional stress and restrictive dieting. “What brings you to see me today?” You ask your patient. “I think I’m addicted to food,” they say. “I try so hard to be good, but I must have some kind of problem because…
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Measuring health without scales
BMI is used in every doctor’s office. But why? Dietitian Lucy Carey thinks BMI can do more harm than good. “We’re not getting into this again,” he huffed at me, the buttons on this shirt straining as he shifted his weight in his chair. I had the distinct impression that he was very close to…
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We don’t need junk food… Except we do
It’s usually not feasible to eliminate junk food entirely from our lives, so it’s important that we learn HOW to eat it. “Something weird happened at school today.” My 5-year-old didn’t look upset, he just had the usual pensive expression he wore as he mulled over all the new things he was encountering since starting…
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Ozempic: appetite suppressant or eating disorder accelerant?
Is Ozempic the wonder drug we’ve been waiting for? Or is it playing directly into the hands of disordered eating? I’m told the fashion at this year’s Oscars was thin, courtesy of the injectable prescription drug, Ozempic. Ozempic, Wegovy, Trulicity, Victoza… They are all the same class of drug: GLP-1 agonists. Aside from working to…
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Stop saying “listen to your body”
When we’ve spent years ignoring our bodies, intuitive eating doesn’t come quite so intuitively… But there’s a way to get past this. The mouse clicked in a steady rhythm as I flicked through a presentation I’d given to a group of nurses years earlier. It wasn’t very pretty and the images definitely needed updating, but…
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Building self-worth to beat binge eating
Binge eating isn’t an addiction to food. When we truly dig into why we binge eat, we often uncover low self-worth. What do you truly believe about yourself? Self-worth is how you perceive yourself. It’s your sense of being good enough, even when you make mistakes. If you have low self-worth, you’re probably harsh on…
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Challenging your food rules
Everyone grows up with food rules. But some of them aren’t doing us any favours. Do you need to challenge any of your food rules? “You can’t give him ice cream in the morning!” He shot me an incredulous look. “Why not?” I replied with a shrug of my shoulders. I kept my cool on…