Eating Disorders

What is an Eating Disorder?

Clinical eating disorders — such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder – include a spectrum of extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues. Clinical eating disorders are serious emotional and physical problems that can have life-threatening consequences for females and males.

Click here to learn more about the different types of eating disorders and their symptoms.

 

What is Disordered Eating?

Subclinical Eating disorders can be referred to as  “disordered eating” and may present as:

  • Extreme preoccupation with dieting/weight loss
  • Extreme fear of food and what it will “do” to the body
  • Debilitating pre occupation with improving appearance causing social isolation
  • Chronic dieting due to lack of trust in your body
  • Excessive exercise striving for or maintaining an “ideal” physical appearance

 

** Clinical or subclinical disordered symptoms can cause excessive inner distress and life imbalance.

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Treatment approach-

The most effective and long-lasting treatment for an eating disorder includes creating a treatment team of professionals skilled at understanding the complex nature of disordered eating.  A treatment team can vary depending on the individuals needs, the severity of symptoms and readiness of the client to heal. The core of a  treatment team usually consists of the client, the clients family, a mental health professional, a medical professional and nutrition therapy with additional support from  school counselors and coaches as appropriate.

 

 

 

 

If you think you are experiencing any of the following behaviors, nutrition therapy can help:

  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Bulimia Nervosa
  • Binge Eating Disorder
  • Chronic Dieting
  • Over  Exercising
  • Night Eating Syndrome

 

What is Nutrition Therapy?

  • Nutrition therapy is much more than simply educating you about good nutrition and exercise. Nutrition therapy is  a collaboration between you and your nutrition counselor to help you:
    • To change your relationship with food, so that a supportive eating style becomes second nature to you.
    • To re-learn how to use internal signals of hunger, fullness and satisfaction to successfully manage food and weight.
    • To challenge beliefs that keep you stuck in old patterns and develop new beliefs that will support healthful eating patterns and weight.
    • To develop a lifestyle that includes pleasureable eating and joyful movement that supports health and well being.
    • To establish an attitude of acceptance and gratitude regarding your natural body.
    • To trust in your ability to maintain a healthy weight range and have a peaceful relationship with food, eating and your body.