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Binge Eating Recovery
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Common Eating Disorders
Warning Signs of an Eating Disorder
Are you suffering now?
Alison's experience of Binge Eating Disorder
Feeling all alone?
Men suffer too
Recovery resources
Nutritional Therapy |
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Do you want help to recover from your binge eating? Have you had enough of living life in the clutches of this illness?
Recovery from an eating disorder is almost impossible to do alone. You need professional guidance to show you how to begin your recovery.
The comment that finally made me to decide to confront my eating disorder was when my brother said "What have you got to lose?". The answer was absolutely nothing as my eating disorder had taken everything...... what I didn't realise was the whole new life I was about to gain giving me freedom from this disease at last!
So what have you got to lose? |
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Sign up for online counselling and your recovery can begin NOW
You will:-
- Receive a FREE Binge Eating Assessment
- Work with a Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders
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- Your binge eating will be tackled from many different angles, using nutritional, counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy and coaching approaches which are recommended by the National Centre for Eating Disorders.
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Common Eating Disorders
There are three main types of eating disorders:
1.Compulsive Overeating or Binge Eating Disorder involves out-of-control eating, usually in secret, and without purging afterward. The size of the binges determines the diagnosis.
2. Bulimia Nervosa - a pattern of binge eating (rapidly eating food in one sitting) followed by purging (ridding the body of food). Purging can involve vomiting, abusing laxatives and/or diuretics, an extreme amount of exercising and/or fasting (not eating at all).
3.Anorexia Nervosa - too much weight loss due to constant dieting, food avoidance, self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, excessive exercising or any combination of one or more of these.
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Warning Signs of an Eating Disorder
Compulsive Overeating / Binge Eating Disorder
- Always on or off diets
- Always going on a diet tomorrow
- Feel that life will begin when reach target weight
- Can never maintain weight loss
- Large weight gains
- Eating alone and in secret
- Hiding wrappers
- Weight gain while appearing to eat very sensibly
- Skipping meals
- Erratic eating habits
- Depression and moodiness
- Food disappearing and denying any knowledge of where it has gone
Bulimia
- Overeating without appearing to gain weight
- Keeping supply of food hidden in wardrobe / cupboard
- Going to the bathroom straight after eating
- Smell of airfreshner after visits to bathroom
- Uses music or running water to hide noise of purging in bathroom
- Denying missing food was taken
- Messy toilets
- Hiding wrappers
- Weight fluctuations
- Anxious to get people out of the kitchen
- Denying that anything is wrong if challenged
Anorexia
- Significant weight loss
- Intense fear of gaining weight
- Periods have stopped (or not started)
- Feel fat
- Going on fad diets
- Continue to diet after goal weight has been achieved
- Excessive exercise
- Won't eat food with fat on it
- Moody, impatient, rude or secretive
- Becoming socially isolated
- Deny any problems when challenged by family, friends or professionals
- Wear baggy clothes to hide weight loss
- Refuse to remove coat or jumper during hot summer weather |
Are you suffering now?
First I want to tell you that I admire your courage in admitting that you may have an eating disorder. Admitting that a problem exists is the first step in solving it. Eating disorders affect people of all ages, races and sex. |
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I also want you to know that there is a lot of help available, but the hardest thing is to find someone to help you and guide you through the recovery process. Not all professionals have an understanding of eating disorders so do not be put of by the first person who fails to understand what you are talking about. Simply try another professional until you find the right person.
As a Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders and online counsellor I am dedicated to helping people recover from binge eating through online counselling. I would love to help you find recovery too. |
Alison's experience of Binge Eating Disorder
There is one more thing I would like to share with you. I have great understanding of eating disorders and addiction. I have battled with an eating disorder, compulsive overeating which progressed to binge eating disorder, since the age of 13. However, even when I hit rock bottom, nobody realized I had a problem. I had kept it secret from everyone in the world. Most doctors still don’t know what to do to help sufferers recover.
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But I have found the key to that door, and have had the most remarkable recovery. My whole life has changed beyond recognition, as I have faced my fears, my emotions and my past. I want you to know, that no matter how low and hopeless you feel, you can learn to change your life, and live in your dreams not your fears. I chose to use food, but others use alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling etc. Please know that you are not alone, and recovery is not only possible but fantastic. I am committed to helping others recover and work daily on this mission. I have written a book about how to recover , so that I can share my knowledge. Many people mistakenly believe that anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are all about food. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.
I hope my sharing of my biggest life secret, shows you that we all face problems in our life, but that we can find help and change our lives. When you find peace and serenity, it is so much better than finding a pot of gold.
I wish you the best of luck in solving your problems. I’d love to be a part of your personal journey, if that is what you wish. Why not sign up for online counselling, after all……. “What have you got to lose?” Those words are forever etched into my mind, reminding me of the day I chose to put down the food, not realising that I had everything to gain too.
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Feeling All Alone?
One of the biggest things for me when I went into recovery from binge eating disorder, was to learn that I was not alone in my suffering. I also found many fellow sufferers who had walked the path of recovery ahead of me, which gave me so much hope that recovery was actually possible. The hardest step was admitting the problem to myself and to my family. I expected a reaction of horror, instead everyone gave me love and support, even if they couldn't really understand why I had turned to food. However during my early months in recovery, my family began to watch me change and learned to understand my eating disorder as I became able to share about what had caused me to use food as a coping strategy. Today my husband says it is like I have been reborn again! |
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Most eating disorder sufferers keep the problems to themselves, never daring to tell anyone what is going on. As the disorder progresses family members begin to notice severe changes in weight, which become increasingly hard to hide.
Shame and embarrassment lead to very secretive behaviours as we try to hide how we are misusing food. Even after 13 years of marriage my husband had no idea what I was eating. The extreme weight gain told him something was wrong, but he never witnessed my bingeing, which was hidden from the whole world. No matter how low or desperate you feel, there is recovery waiting for you just around the corner, when you choose to change these self destructive patterns.
Find someone who shares an understanding of what recovery is all about. When you are ready to change, you will do. I'd love to have the pleasure of walking alongside you as you begin your journey of recovery.
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Men suffer tooDid you know that many men suffer from eating disorders? It is estimated that half of all the people who have binge eating disorder are male. We also know that half of all the people who are clinically obese suffer from binge eating. So think of all the men around the world who are struggling with binge eating. Just because it's not publicly talked about it doesn't mean that it is not happening.
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Recovery Resources
Articles on Eating Disorders
Books on Eating Disorders
Overeaters Anonymous is a world wide support group with meetings all over the world. Members suffer from all types of the eating disorders listed. It is a twelve step programme, like the better known fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous. Details can be found at http://www.oa.org
Overeaters Anonymous
PO Box 19, Stretford, Manchester M32 9EB, England
Tel 07000 784985
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PO Box 44020 • Rio Rancho, NM 87174-4020 USA
Tel: 1-505-891-2664
Fax: 1-505-891-4320
info@overeatersanonymous.org |
beat - Beating Eating Disorders
103 Prince of Wales Road
Norwich NR1 1DW
United Kingdom
http://www.b-eat.co.uk/Home
Helpline
08456 341414
Monday to Friday 10:30am - 8:30pm
Saturdays 1:00pm - 4:30pm
Sunday ~ Closed
Bank Holidays 11:30am - 2:30pm
help@b-eat.co.uk
Youthline
08456 347650
TXT: 07786 20 18 20
Monday to Friday 4:30pm - 8:30pm
Saturdays 1:00pm - 4:30pm
Sunday ~ Closed
Bank Holidays 11:30am - 2:30pm
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National Centre for Eating Disorders
54 New Road, Esher, Surrey KT10 9NU, England - Tel: 0845 838 20 40
http://www.eating-disorders.org.uk
Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
http://www.edreferral.com
Internet support groups for sufferers and families
‘Something Fishy’ http://fishyvb.something-fishy.org/ |
Nutritional Therapy
I would actively encourage anyone who is suffering, or has suffered, from an eating disorder, to seek the support of a Nutritional Therapist. You can see someone in person or receive their professional support via the telephone, e-mail or by post (mail).
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