Eating Disorder Help

Poll

	|   |

Author:
Kristin Gerstley

How many people can actually say that they love and accept themselves just as they are?

Learning to love yourself is quite possibly one of the hardest things to accomplish in your life. And that is when there is nothing wrong with you. Imagine having an eating disorder. It is even harder for people to love and accept their own bodies when they have an eating disorder.

One can find hatred for our bodies everywhere. On the street, you can hear a total stranger complaining about the size of her thighs to a friend. In the grocery store, you see the man looking at the nutrition facts with a puzzled look on his face. In magazines, almost everyone is airbrushed. So, it’s no wonder why we don’t love ourselves like we should. We are constantly surrounded by negativity that tells us that we are never good enough. We should not be happy until we achieve that certain number on the scale, right? Wrong.

The most essential thing for people to incorporate into their life is personal development or self-improvement. Personal development can help people shed the layers that they hide behind. Personal development is just wanting to better yourself. Self-improvement can help a person unravel who they are and morph into who they want to become, which is someone that loves themselves. Anything is achievable when you learn to work on yourself. Nothing seems too far away.

Personal development is what will help teach you how to accept and love yourself, along with any flaws that you may have. It is also the stepping stone for you to start making important, positive changes in your life that will ultimately change your eating habits.

There are many things that can be done with personal development to help Binge Eating Disorder. The first thing that one can do is to stop surrounding themselves with any negative talk. Negative talk is any thoughts or conversation that you enter that is negative. These thoughts and conversations will not help you to become more in love with yourself. They will make you see all of the bad that is in you. Your mind will be clouded. Learn to appreciate the positive and beautiful things in your life.

Another thing that one can do is to start reading personal development books and listen to audio tapes. Instead of watching television at night, read a good book that will teach you how to appreciate yourself. While driving to work, pop in a personal development CD that will expand your mind and get you to start thinking about what changes in your life you want to make.

When you start to accept your body and love it in the present, even though it may not be exactly what you want forever, your mind will start to change and you won’t be so hard on yourself. Imagine how our lives would be if everyone gave themselves a break and just accepted the way they were at any given moment.

Kristin Gerstley is a former binge eater that now has a healthy relationship with food. She is also the owner of http://www.endbingeeating.com which is a site that helps people overcome Binge Eating Disorder. She publishes a free newsletter offering tips on how to stop binge eating and regain control of your life.

Notice to publishers: you have rights to republish this article on your website as long as you keep all links in tact and clickable. Thank you.

A Quick Note From The Publisher... If you like the article above, you may be interested in the following article which is also related to Eating Disorders... Binge-Eating Disorder -- What Is It And What Do We Need To Know About It? Binge-eating disorder is also known as compulsive overeating. A person with binge-eating disorder frequently eats abnormally large amounts of food (usually junk food) quickly at one sitting, even when they are not hungry. They feel a loss of control over how much they are eating and will continue to eat until they are uncomfortably full – even in pain. This eating behaviour is likely to take place in secret due to the feelings of shame and disgust that follow a binge-eating episode. Although binge eating is an element of the eating disorder bulimia, binge-eating disorder is different from bulimia because it does not involve the purging of calories after a binge by vomiting or the use of laxatives (or some other means). Binge-eating disorder is likely to result in the sufferer becoming overweight or obese, although this is not always the case. Who Suffers from Binge-Eating Disorder? Unlike anorexia and bulimia, binge-eating disorder has only been accepted relatively recently as a serious eating disorder. It is difficult to say how many people suffer from binge-eating disorder as it is thought many cases go unreported. It is estimated that between 2 percent and 5 percent of Americans experience binge-eating disorder in a 6-month period (NIMH). Sufferers of binge-eating disorder are likely to be overweight or obese (although most people who are overweight or obese do not suffer from binge-eating disorder). What Causes Binge-Eating Disorder? Several causes of binge-eating disorder have been proposed which are likely to be interrelated. Binge-eating disorder is widely considered to have an underlying psychological cause. Negative emotional states including depression, stress, boredom, anxiety, low self-esteem and general unhappiness are thought to trigger...