30 Anti-Diet Practices to Try this Month

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30 Anti-Diet Practices to Try this Month

If you’ve had thoughts about wanting to make changes to your eating or exercise behaviors this month– you’re not alone! The beginning of the year is prime time for businesses to market products, tools, memberships, and experiences geared towards helping people meet their new years goals or resolutions. As such, you may be seeing an increase in emails or ads on social media encouraging you to take steps to improve your health or to focus on prioritizing your wellbeing, by way of purchasing their products or participating in their programs. This is all fine and good, except when “health” and “wellbeing” gets boiled down to weight, and the goal is always weight loss.

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Holiday Q&A: How Do I Manage the Urges to Use Eating Disorder Behaviors to Compensate for Holiday Eating?

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Holiday Q&A: How Do I Manage the Urges to Use Eating Disorder Behaviors to Compensate for Holiday Eating?

It can be stressful to have multiple challenge meals close together. If you’re noticing higher urges to engage in restriction, exercise, or other behaviors in the days following, or even just thinking about these meals for a while after you’ve eaten them, consider focusing on the following…

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Holiday Q&A: My Family Doesn’t Know I’m In Recovery From An Eating Disorder

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Holiday Q&A: My Family Doesn’t Know I’m In Recovery From An Eating Disorder

If you’re spending your holidays with extended family members or friends who are unaware of your recovery journey, the idea of eating with them may be anxiety provoking. What if they make a comment about my food? Are they going to judge me for having a second helping and dessert? What if they notice my body has changed? If eating in a large group setting is already challenging to begin with, these additional unknowns can exacerbate feelings of discomfort and may lead you to want to skip out on the event altogether.

Below are some suggestions that may help with getting through these situations.

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Holiday Q&A: How Do I Manage Eating Disorder Thoughts at Holiday Gatherings?

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Holiday Q&A: How Do I Manage Eating Disorder Thoughts at Holiday Gatherings?

It’s a good idea to have a plan for how to navigate challenging environments for your eating disorder so that you can feel a bit more prepared going into these situations. For many the holidays are a particularly challenging time due to food being a major part of the celebrations. While it may feel less stressful to push the holiday gathering out of your mind in the days leading up to it, this can set you up to feel completely overwhelmed once you are there. This is not to say having a plan will guarantee food will be totally stress-free, but you will at least have some strategies to try with when you notice the eating disorder thoughts starting to creep in.

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Holiday Q&A: What do I do if someone comments on my weight gain?

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Holiday Q&A: What do I do if someone comments on my weight gain?

Let me start by saying, I have so much compassion for anyone feeling this way right now. The last almost 2 years has been hard for many reasons. And a changing body in a world that tells us bodies can’t or shouldn’t change unless, of course, it’s to make them appear smaller and younger, might be one of them. Here are some thoughts on how you might prepare for holiday gatherings amidst changed body worries and concerns.

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