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Joanna Painton - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Joanna works for the Women's Behavioral Program. She has overcome adversities and shares her hope with anyone she comes in contact with.
Joanna is a known published author in the Bariatric Community and has spent the last 13 years helping to educate people on the importance of the body, mind and spirit connection.
Please feel free to contact Joanna at womenstreatmentcenter.com or by e-mail joanna@recoveryconnection.org
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- Does Food Addiction Exist?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] On my way to work this morning I was reminded of how real food addiction is. The rain was pouring down, the windshield wipers were hard at work and still it was difficult to drive and the line at the local fast food restaurant was out in the main road.
- Behaviors After Weight Loss Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Most people today are aware of weight loss surgery. However, 10 years ago it was not a known surgical procedure to the public. If someone discussed it they would have to explain what the surgery was and why someone would consider surgery as a treatment option to obesity.
- I Can't Go Away to Treatment, I Have Children
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] One of the common reasons I hear for why a women can't go to treatment is they have children and they say I can't leave my family. This doesn't apply just to single head of household women this also applies to women who have very supportive husbands, partners, family and friends.
- Trust the Process - Heal Your Eating Disorder
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] The first time someone said to me "Trust the Process" the thought that came to mind was what process? Being blessed as I am today, knowing what I know today I do absolutely "Trust the Process"! The process is allowing things to be just as they are not trying to manipulate them to be what he or she thinks is the right way.
- Strategies For Coping With Emotional Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] If an individual is affected by emotional overeating he or she knows how consuming the thoughts of food are throughout the day. Emotional Eaters find themselves eating when upset, angry, fearful, stressed, and happy, celebrating the list is endless. The sense of wanting to eat all the time can be overwhelming. Many individuals will go to any lengths to hide the food they eat from family, friends, and coworkers.
- What is a Transference of Addiction?
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] Perhaps transference of addiction terminology is familiar to him or her many individuals whom have transferred addictions have no idea how? Or why it happened? An addiction is anything that becomes a habit, typically through the subconscious mind. The person starts off in control of whatever they do or use to not feel or think. Addictions then take on a life of their own and turn on him or her.
- Does Being Overweight Cause an Individual to Have Insecurities?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] First off I would like to say that someone can feel over-weight and not be over-weight. The way to determine this is by the body mass index some know this as BMI. This BMI chart was created to show people who are on the low end of the spectrum for the height and weight are just as dangerous and susceptible to death as those individuals on the high end of the BMI chart.
- How Can I Accept I Have an Eating Disorder?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Quite often someone dealing with an eating disorder as a self defense mechanism will not discuss or admit to having an eating disorder. Shame is such a strong emotion and runs through most people who have eating disorders. People don't set out to have the disorder in fact, initially he or she had control over food somewhere along the line it took control of them.
- Sabotaging Behaviors and Eating Disorders - Is There a Correlation?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Many individuals with eating disorders do not see a correlation with having an eating disorder and self-sabotaging behaviors. Essentially he or she is self-sabotaging themselves and they do not even know they are engaging in these types of behaviors. To a loved one, friend, coworker or family member it may seem obvious unfortunately, however, he or she is the last to know this is a common defense mechanism.
- Do Fear and Eating Disorders Live Together?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] The question asked is "Do Fear and Eating Disorders Live Together?" The answer is a resounding yes! Fear keeps people stuck and locked into continuing the behavior of an eating disorder. Fear is a powerful negative emotion, a learned habitual behavior. To change consciously the words he or she says to themselves unconsciously. The only way an individual can stop this is to stop it!
- What Role Does Fear Play in Eating Disorders?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Fear generally keeps individuals stuck within an eating disorder? The power of negative thinking and habitual thoughts are constantly playing in the background. It may sound funny but becoming conscious and aware of how he or she thinks will help bring the individual around to pursue recovery.
- Sabotaging Behaviors Cause Eating Disorders
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Many individuals do not associate the behaviors he or she engages in as a cause of the eating disorder. It can be overwhelming to realize the majority of the thoughts, words and actions he or she is using keeps them stuck in the addictive cycle of an eating disorder.
- Why Did I Choose to Be Fat?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] An individual who has an eating disorder has asked this question many times "Why Am I Fat?" I learned a long time ago "Why" is not a recovery word! It doesn't matter why he or she is fat- the fact remains for various reasons he or she has an eating disorder.
- Why Can't I Stop Binge Eating?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] For an individual who suffers from an eating disorder such as binge eating it can be debilitating emotionally, physically and spiritually. Many people don't see the correlation between eating disorders and addiction. The individual stuck in the cycle knows all too well they are caught in an addiction. The eating disorder moves into every area of his or her life. Emotions and poor impulse control play a large role in the day to day activities of a binge eater. Family and friends mean well however, unless they too suffer from an eating disorder they can't understand what he or she is experiencing.
- How to Stop Food Addiction?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Many people are addicted to food and do not even know it. People who are depressed due to weight gain low self-esteem feelings of being unworthy. The more as a society individuals continue to avoid themselves or the true purpose and keep going for the quick fix the more food addiction will run rampant.
- Is There Help For Compulsive Eating?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] To the individual suffering from compulsive eating help is available. When an individual is caught in the grips of the addiction cycle he or she is unable to control the amount of food eaten or to know when the binge will end. The feelings are very similar to that of an alcoholic or drug addict. The compulsion to eat, drink or drug is present then he or she acts out on it and there appears to be no end in sight. Someone who is a compulsive eater keeps the food they do not purge or use laxatives inevitably they gain weight.
- Choose His Or Her Thoughts Wisely!
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Throughout the day thoughts are constant whether conscious or unconscious the mind is always operating. The power of the words chosen to think is a choice. So many people do not realize the innate ability to control the data stored in his or her mind. So often someone will say something to us that reminds us of the past. Immediately he or she feels how that particular incident felt then and react inappropriately now. The person with whom he or she is currently engaged in a conversation with has no idea what was said or done that affected us and often neither do we.
- How Many Eating Disorders Are There?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Primarily two types of eating disorders are commonly known, anorexia and bulimia! Today individuals suffer from compulsive overeating, emotional eating, night time eating, compulsive exercise, binge eating, food addiction, orthorexia nervosa, diabetic bulimic, exercise bulimic, selective eating disorder and the list goes on. Too many variables exist with eating disorders to say one specific event caused it. Eating disorders can occur from low self-esteem, from an individual wanting to fit in a group or team, stress, trauma, having a strong desire to stand out or from wanting to be perfect.
- My Daughter Learned About Eating Disorder's From Me!
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Is there any individual on the planet who said at least once in his or her lifetime "I swear I will never do that to my children"? How inept he or she feels as the realization that he or she recognizes they have done just that! Eating disorder's are a learned behavior if the parent's eat abnormally whether too much or not enough, if he or she eats on the run, standing up not at the table, don't eat after a certain time of day and so on.
- Eating Disorders - How Do I Get Better?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Do you suffer from an eating disorder? Do you eat whether you are hungry or not? Do you find when you are stressed, upset with a coworker or loved ones that you respond with food? Do you feel shame or guilt at how you eat or don't eat?
- Can Eating Disorders Lead to Suicidal Thoughts?
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] If an individual is suffering from an eating disorder can he or she also have suicidal thoughts? The answer is yes, eating disorders affect every area of his or her life. The disorder is all consuming, every thought, word and action in one way or another is grounded by food either trying to obtain it or abstain from it.
- Weight Gain After Gastric Bypass Surgery
[Womens-Interests:Cosmetic-Surgery] Just 5 years ago many people had never heard of gastric bypass surgery. Gastric bypass surgery became more publicly known as more individuals underwent weight loss surgery as a way to assist them with obesity. Famous people were going on national television and openly discussing the discussion he or she made to have weight loss surgery.
- Is There Help For Compulsive Overeating?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] If anyone had told me I could go a day without misusing food I would have laughed. After years of using food to not feel my or deal with my emotions I had no idea how to cope with life other than to self medicate. I thought I was alone and that no one else did what I did. I was filled with shame, guilt and remorse.
- How Can I Get Help With My Food Addiction If I Have Children?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] No one wants to admit they need help especially with food. People will try everything on their own repeatedly just so they don't have to admit they have a problem. Eating disorders have so much shame attached to them.
- Why Am I an Emotional Eater?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] How many individuals are Emotional Eaters? If a statistical answer is what he or she is searching for when asking this question then avoiding themselves and the behavior is still in the forefront of his or her mind? As a child rewards are given for good behavior, if he or she receives a good report card the family celebrates by going out to eat and having dessert.
- News Ways of Coping Without Abusing Food!
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] When an individual turns to food for comfort and to find a quick fix or sense of relief it begins the cycle of addiction over time. Many people find it offensive to think of food as addiction most individuals equate addiction with drugs and alcohol.
- How Do Eating Disorders Begin?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] When I was a young girl eating disorders existed however, the only people it was ever discussed about were models, actors and actresses. Now it seems people of all ages are struggling with an eating disorder. What causes eating disorders? What a loaded question, for some they watched an older sibling, a cousin, aunt some family member who was admired or respected.
- Why Am I Depressed All the Time?
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] So many individuals live with depression and are unable to see a way out. Being diagnosed with depression or anxiety is very common these days. The economy is such right now that many individuals are depressed and anxious not sure of what the future holds for their lives. Depression is very real while the person is experiencing it, having an evaluation by a doctor is a starting point, perhaps medication management is necessary.
- Living Life With an Eating Disorder!
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Individuals living with an eating disorder do not want to discuss the disease. Somehow by avoiding the discussions the disease is not real. People who have recovered from eating disorders know the secret of the disease, and keeps them stuck in the disease.
- How Did I Get an Eating Disorder?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] So many individuals are spending wasted time trying to figure out how did the eating disorder happen? When he or she gets into recovery and able to look back and realize the amount of time and energy wasted in the how, why and when the eating disorder began has absolutely nothing to do with today. He or she needs to look at right now the present circumstance's he or she has an eating disorder and help is required to get better.
- Are Sugar and Cocaine the Same?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] That may sound crazy "How can Sugar and Cocaine be similar?" There have been studies done to show a correlation between the two however, if an individual suffers from obesity, binge eating or compulsive overeating he or she knows it to be real. An individual who has an allergy to sugar recognizes once he or she eats anything made with sugar it sets up a craving for more.
- Conscious Eating Vs Unconscious Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] As a person recovering from food addiction one of the tools given to me was the ability to determine if my eating was being done while I was conscious? Or was I unconscious? Individual's reading this don't have an eating disorder that may sound funny, however, those of us who are in recover know firsthand how simple it needs to be.
- Why Do I Still Have an Eating Disorder?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Almost everyone today knows of someone who has had weight loss surgery. Interestingly enough either because it was successful, the person had a speedy recovery and weight loss and were able to maintain this over a period of years. Or he or she may hear the horror stories of how the person was happy and healthy before the surgery- now they are sickly, miserable, vomiting and it was due to the surgery.
- Is Emotional Eating Disorder New?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Over the last few years it has become more pronounced that eating disorders are on the rise. Several years ago words like anorexia, bulimia and obesity were spoken of yet not understood. Today eating disorders have expanded to include the following: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, dia-bulimic, compulsive eating disorder, binge eating, orthorexia, food addiction, female athlete triad and so on.
- Food Choices With Children
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Children as young as elementary age are being taught about health and fitness in school. They participate in a class that teaches the children how to make better food choices. They are taught the importance of being physically active and the importance of daily exercise.
- Anorexia and Obesity Are Similar!
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Many individuals view Anorexia as an eating disorder, however, they view obesity as the individual lacks will power that they are unable to control themselves. Unfortunately, discrimination is common with obesity. Any individual who has experienced obesity understands what this firsthand.
- Eating Disorders and Normal Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Often individual's will ask what an eating disorder is? If a person does not restrict food or purge after binging do they have an eating disorder?
- I Hate My Body!
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Typically individuals who have an eating disorder have low self-esteem. He or she does not like to see a mirror reflection of them; in fact, he or she may avoid looking in mirrors it reminds them of what they are running from. If someone is anorexic or obese they are on opposite ends of the spectrum, however, they both see themselves in a negative light. An overweight person is able to rationalize the excess weight as not being bad yet. He or she tells themselves that tomorrow they will start the next diet, or when the scale reaches the next 10 pounds then he or she will stop this behavior.
- I Am Depressed So I Eat!
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] So often people get in a cycle of depression and eating for comfort and develop a food addiction. The cycle perpetuates the depression and eating and it goes around and around. Addiction happens and the individual is caught in the cycle of addiction long before they identify a problem with food. Many individuals would like to be able to say there were no warning signs of an eating disorder.
- Why Focus on Food?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] How can an individual not focus on food? Every time the television is on the headlining news is broadcasting an actress or model who is suffering from an eating disorder. When standing in line at the local grocery store look to the right and see the assorted array of candy bars and gum loaded with sugar.
- Why Can't I Stop Eating So Much?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Some days I just can't seem to eat enough food. My appetite is insatiable I wake up in the morning convinced today is the day that I will start my diet. How many times have I said this and meant it sincerely.
- I Can't Stop Compulsive Overeating!
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Many individuals suffer from Compulsive Overeating Disorder and they are not aware that help is available. This eating disorder is a learned behavior traced back to early childhood. The individual learned to develop dysfunctional eating habits - possibly from watching a role model or as an instinctive response to a trauma; this eating disorder leads to obesity which causes shame, guilt and embarrassment, which, in turn, continues the cycle of addiction.
- What Causes Eating Disorders?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Eating Disorders are a learned behavior. Individuals who have an Eating Disorder can't remember what day or time it began only that it started out as a temporary solution. Eating Disorders are insidious over time the disorder escalates the individual who started out believing they had control over what was eaten or not eaten; they no longer have a choice as the eating disorder is in control.
- My Friend Has Anorexia Nervosa, What Can I Do?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] How does a friend sit back and watch someone he or she loves suffer from an eating disorder? What can I do to help them is a common question asked. Unfortunately, no straight forward answer is available to this question. Every individual has many variables that combined make up why they developed Anorexia Nervosa.
- Eating Disorders Have a Beginning
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] I remember the first time someone publicly embarrassed me about my size. I was mortified, humiliated, ashamed, embarrassed the list goes on. I guess somehow as long as no one spoke of my weight it didn't exist. I always felt different and out of place and now my secret was out.
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