Tip #2: Focus On The Facts

Your mind is being starved, your thoughts are distorted, you cannot see the truth because your emotions are clouding your judgment. All the fear, guilt, frustration, worry is consuming you.

Often when we aren’t given the full story we’ll fill the gaps in ourselves. For example, if we go into a shop and the sales assistant looks at us and gives us a half smile. How would that feel? Would you think she was being friendly? …

Tip #1: Decide You Want Things To Change

I know how difficult it is living with an eating disorder.

Your mind is so consumed with thinking of food that it’s difficult to have a conversation. You may have isolated yourself from other people.

You just want to feel safe. You just want to feel in control.

You have continued with the rules and rituals for a long time, in the hope that you will finally feel good enough and happy. But all it’s bringing is endless torture.

It feels like there’s an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. You have no idea who to…

I never considered myself a typical anorexic, because it didn’t start in my teens. It wasn’t until I was 31 that I started restricting in order to cope with my divorce. I’d found out my husband was having an affair and he showed no remorse, no emotion. I was devastated. With two daughters aged two and four, I was determined that the divorce would affect them as little as possible. So I pushed aside my own feelings and focused on them, and I restricted.

Over the next few years I struggled with anorexia and bulimia. I remember being sat by…

The idea of clean eating has been around for a few years now, and the concept has been immensely popular. Public figures have been seen to be following the diet, Facebook pages set up, and there have even been claims that clean eating can help prevent cancer.

But is clean eating good for you?

For some people who use this diet for the short term, as a detox, and a kick start to eating more healthily in the long term, I can see the benefits. IMO, diets just don’t work because they involve depriving ourselves of foods we enjoy. …

Someone who has never experienced an eating disorder for themselves will never understand what it’s like. Do you agree? If they are a family member, they can have a certain degree of knowledge. But just as we can not fully understand how difficult and painful it is for them to watch someone they love, ultimately destroy themselves; they cannot understand the sheer terror and gut wrenching guilt that we feel most of the time.

And it is down to that terror and guilt that we automatically lie about what we’ve eaten and what we’re going to eat. We hate doing…

As someone who has recovered from anorexia and bulimia, and now works with women with eating disorders, I tend to keep abreast of current developments in this area.

It’s new year and I awaited the newly introduced fitness DVDs and diets. I watched two TV programs this week on losing weight and was amazed by the reason for the global obesity epidemic offered: We are eating more now than we did. OK. I understand that if we consume more calories than we burn off, then we are likely to put on weight. I also understand that people are generally less…