Yes common sense. I just had a huge binge and i happened upon this. The reason i binged is im so afraid of weight gain ive been working out 5 hrs a day and restricting my food for the past few days. Today the wheels fell off after a grueling day at my highly physical job. What did i expect! My body took over and fed itself. Yes i feel awful in every way physically and emotionally and want to commence into more exercise, but i physically cant bc of all the food. The body is genius. So i shall sit in my physical misery and mental self loathing and i will get past it and i will be ok. The better question is will i actually learn from it and make the changes i need to make. I am so stuck in the fear its ridiculous. Im so wishy washy about it all. One minute its no big deal to give up the ed and the next in freaking out bc my jeans may not fit or my this or that is bigger. Apologies for the rant, but it needed to be aired. I truly have no one who'd actually give a shit. If they could only spend a day in my brain...
Thank you Tabitha for calling the BBC out on this misinformation. Unfortunately some people think because it is broadcast by the BBC it must be factually correct. I am glad ED sufferers can do their own research now and no longer need to rely on this public broadcaster.
You are right Tabitha that there's a huge physical component. You are so right about the bunge eating as well. I think that there can be an element of control. I started starving after sexual assault. But maybe if i didn't have the genes for anorexia maybe I'd have never been able to starve myself. 🤷♀️
I was in hospital for an urgent hernia operation and bowel obstruction. Fluids only for about 8 days. I lost 7 lbs and when I got home, guess what I ate twice the amount of calories! Totally normal. As body knew it was getting food I went back to how I normally eat. My body needed all of those calories.
AMEN!!! Thank you!! Hearing shit like Anorexia recovery can lead to binges is off putting to start rcovery! When you fear losing control to be told Oh yes you will likely lose fucking control HOW is that helpful!!!?? Thank you :)
So I absolutely completely agree with this. After being a victim of anorexia amongst other eating disorders for many years, I now know it's a combination of genetics and being in a nutritional deficit for a certain period of time. My question to you is this; Given the above is true, why is it when we go through periods of stress such as the loss of a loved one, relationship breakdowns etc, do we run back to restriction as a coping method? Is that not control because it's all we feel we can control at that certain period of time?
I agree with that! I think it is a genetic imprint that made us feel we are in control of our survival by controlling / restricting food in uncertain and uncontrollable times and every time we are challenged with uncontrollable circumstances this could potentially lead us to use restriction as a coping again. giving into this impulse obviously makes it worse and energy deficit feeds into the cycle as well - thats just my observation.
I have Ed anorexia for over 35 years and only on my early stages J was restricting when stress happened After that I was doing opposite, I wanted to eat during stress and it created even more mess in my head
I'm wondering if you could speak about digestive issues due to Ed's? I'm desperate to feel better and am eating more but my stomach, quite frankly, is disgusting. It makes me scared to eat rather than enjoying it. As soon as food hits my mouth I'm running to the bathroom and it's exhausting - is it normal ? I've been to a doctor and all tests have come back without anything wrong. But my bowels gurgle constantly and it's embarrassing I just want it to stop!!!
A dear friend of mine once mentioned common sense is the least common of all senses 😅 well it’s seems to be like that, agree with you. It’s ridiculous that diet culture driven society anticipates new truths by ignoring facts
I also hear so often sick shit about eating disorder and also the encouragement of movement is so bad. Everytime I say no somebody can move to much I know that everybody looks at me like I am an alien and they say thats new for me movement is allways good🙈 society is weired the same stuff with calories in and out and eating less is always better sugar is the devil. Nobody believes me how much chocolate I eat. Sometimes I feel lost in this environment. But thankfully I have people who encourage me although they dosen't understand fully what I say or what I do but they know my struggles. But there are so many garbage outside. I wish you could speak more in public I know you have tried a lot but I think it would be nice to see more on bigger accounts. Maybe with Emily Spence and others. I wish you gave a voice to the eating disorder sufferers. And maybe a wake up call to the chronic dieters that it is harmful. 🙏
