Category: eating disorders

Janine Huldie: It’s Casual Remarks Like These That Hurt Our Daughters

  • May 20, 2015
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The remark that my husband made to our older daughter stung. I had truly hoped that I had a bit more time before she worried about her looks and appearance, but just like that, my baby girl is growing up. Read more: Parents-Moms, Mother Daughter Relationships, Self-Esteem, Body Image, Women and Body Image, Mothers and Daughters, Parents News

Relapse

  • May 19, 2015
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This is one person’s story; everyone will have unique experiences on their own path to recovery and beyond. Some stories may mention eating disorder thoughts, behaviors or symptom use. Please use your own discretion. And speak with your therapist when needed. By Liz Rognes, a former Emily Program client in recovery. She is a teacher, writer, and musician who lives in Spokane, WA. I’ve relapsed many times. I’ve had everything from little hiccups, slips, trips, stumbles, big falls, to full-on crashes. When I first started treatment, I couldn’t make it a day without using eating disorder symptoms or without obsessing about some aspect of food, my body, and my perceived lack of worth. Frequent relapses fed my eating disorder. Any time I slipped or crashed, I

I hear people say that you can be anorexic without being ‘thin’. I don’t see how that’s possible but I want to understand. Can you help me with that?

  • May 19, 2015
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To meet DSM-5 criteria for anorexia you have to have a “significantly low body weight.” In previous versions of the DSM, that was marked at 85{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} or less of what is normal for your height, age, and development, but in the current version there is no specific number. So that is how anorexia is equated with thinness. However, you can meet all other criteria of anorexia except that one and still be diagnosed with an eating disorder, typically Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (currently known as Feeding or Eating Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified). EDNOS (or OSFED) is typically diagnosed when the individual clearly has eating patterns and disturbances that warrant clinical attention, but they may not meet every single criteria of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, or

Common Serving Size Questions

  • May 19, 2015
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Hi Everyone, Today we are taking a look at some commonly questioned foods when it comes to servings. As always, your body has needs unique to you. Nourishing yourself in a way that meets those unique needs is what’s most important. When it comes to a serving size, it is what it is. A serving is a measured amount of food or drink. This measured amount contains a specific amount of macro or micronutrients (kcalories, fat, protein, carbohydrate, vitamin C, etc.) based on the components of the particular food or drink. Ex: One serving of bread has 15 grams of carbohydrates A portion is the amount of that serving you choose to feed yourself to meet your hunger, energy, nutrient, and lifestyle needs. Ex: Two servings of

Teen opinion: can YA fiction help cure our obsession with body image?

  • May 19, 2015
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Over one­ half of teenage girls and nearly one­ third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviours. But while body expectations for young people can easily end up spiralling out of control, several YA books are trying to help teens see that healthy is the new happyA few days ago, I stumbled across a documentary on TV called Teens. The series of programmes followed a group of English teenagers (who were all from the same school), around their daily lives. One of the girls said something that really shocked me to the core, and it kept coming back into my mind every day. It went along the lines of this:I’m really worried about my friend, she is really thin. I mean she is really, really