Helping an adult loved one to seek treatment for an eating disorder is much different than guiding a child towards treatment. Here's why, and how to help them.
Meal support during eating disorder treatment helps you to build better eating habits at home. Here is how meal support is used in the treatment setting.
Feeling invalid, or not sick enough, is a common eating disorder experience. Here's what to do when you feel invalid.
For those with binge eating disorder, you know: You binge then "compensate" by restricting. But it doesn't work. This is the binge-restrict cycle. Here's how to get out.
Lack of sleep is not good for anyone's health, but especially for those in eating disorder recovery. Learn the connection between sleep and eating disorders here.
Many social systems still equate weight with health. The Health At Every Size movement is spreading the word that weight is only one indicator of health.
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The diagnosis of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) remains widely unknown, and often remains undiagnosed. This then leads to delaying treatment.
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Medical appointments are an essential, albeit sometimes uncomfortable, part of treatment for an eating disorder. Too often clients are confused, ashamed, or angered after a medical follow-up.
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If you are pursuing Recovery from an Eating Disorder (ED), current events may feel eerily similar to that slippery slope back into disordered behaviors that we so often slide down in the face of stress or changes to our daily routines.
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Recovery during a crisis can be hard. Some of what can happen includes a sudden increase in appetite and loss of control around food.
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Although the BMI is flawed, it can serve a purpose if it is used in addition to other determinants of health. Even in eating disorder treatment centers, we calculate BMI to give us another piece of the puzzle.
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Holidays can be both a time of joy and a time of stress. As a dietitian recovered from her own ED, I’ve learned that it is helpful to have a guide on how to manage the food so that at least some of the stressors can be eliminated.
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Any form of dietary restriction, including those imposed by Veganism can increase or perpetuate eating disordered behavior. We may therefore ask, is Veganism a value-driven lifestyle or another form of restriction?
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