Monday, May 9, 2011

How to Cope with Eating Disorders

How to Cope with Eating Disorders

In this day and age of increasing incidence of obesity, more and more teenagers and young adults succumbing to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, in an effort to curb weight gain is not desired. If you're one of them one of suffering this disorder, you may find it difficult to have other people understand you when you struggle to get free from them.

How does one cope with eating disorders? Before we deal with it, might be better to explain how they usually come about. What makes them extremely difficult to get out of is that they actually felt to give the results one wants to see in terms of weight loss. For example, a woman suffering from anorexia do not necessarily become fat, but if he thinks he is, chances are he will starve himself, and the result is weight loss is inevitable. He could see himself going to lose weight and like that, even without realizing that he does not need to lose anymore. The same goes for people who struggle with bulimia. After first trying to throw out high-calorie foods he ate, he soon saw that he did not get the weight, because after all, he was vomiting out the food while still having fun. The process of eating out of control and just pulled from the abdomen can become very addictive.

This explains the importance of dealing with something deeper than the external behavior is not eating or eating too much and just throw out. We need to deal with the root problem. Here are the basic things that you can consider when you are trying to overcome eating disorders:

1. The problem begins with self-esteem. Causes of common eating disorders are a constant barrage of hurtful words or challenge unhealthy for the body, slender sexy. This means that the first step in addressing the problem is to understand your needs more in, who feel it is important just like you. You have to understand that you are unique, made for something special, a role can no longer fill. You need to develop the mindset that you are not determined by how you look at even if that's what everything in the media tells you. Once you are sure who you are as an exercise, eat healthy people and even just going to come more easily, sometimes even as a natural result. This is different to the time when you're struggling with your food intake with a very conscious way, which usually end up with your own hunger to avoid overeating, or succumbing to bingeing and then need to bring everything back out of fear of even getting a little ounce.

2. If you are anorexic and want to return to normal eating, do not force yourself to eat a normal portion of food directly. Remember, the human stomach adjust the volume of the food used to contain, and when it has been so used to just hold very little, you'll get a stomachache when you force it beyond its capacity. Give yourself a little allowance and just try to eat a little more at a time. Of course, this can be delivered by a correct understanding about food, that was not the enemy. Once you understand this, and how some foods can be eaten in large portions without fear of weight gain, such as fruits and vegetables, you can rest more easily and release the eternal fear of fat.

3. Surround yourself with friends who understand your struggle. Although people around you will tend to judge you, true friends will understand that you do not intend to harm your body and you just picked up by your emotions. If you have a support system around you who love you just like you, it will make the trip go much easier.

In any case, if you deal with an eating disorder, know that you are not alone in this and there are many other people in the world that has become their victims but have risen above the circumstances. There is hope, and you can be the one to win because you are designed for success and have abundant life, the master of everything including food intake and weight problems.

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