Comments on: carnival of eating disorders #14 – part 1 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/ making lives better, making better lives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ezine Articles http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-454742 Ezine Articles Wed, 28 May 2008 01:21:07 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/#comment-454742 Unfortunately body image has become a very important aspect of teenage life. <em>Ezine Articles's last blog post..<a href='http://article-niche.com/launch/27-05-2008Whats-Out-There.htm'>Whats Out There?</a></em> Unfortunately body image has become a very important aspect of teenage life.

Ezine Articles’s last blog post..Whats Out There?

]]> By: Lauralyn Bellamy http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-416773 Lauralyn Bellamy Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:58:44 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/#comment-416773 Isabella, you're right. I just can't be encyclopedic on these posts. What all forms of diet sabotage have in common is their purpose: to reduce intolerable levels of anxiety. Learning to eat slowly and mindfully used to create huge anxiety in me, for example. I remember one therapist who told me to sit down for my meals and do absolutely nothing else but eat; put my whole attention on the experience of eating; to eat slowly and thoughtfully; to look at, smell and fully "masticate" by mouthfuls and to put my fork down in between. "That's obscene!" I blurted out instantly. A reaction that caught me off guard! What we are dealing with is an internal war between the more rational aspects of our personality armed with data, motive and support elements engaging in a program to improve our quality of life and our "reptillian brain" hardwired to "save" us from any element/situation/person that represents a threat. A threat can not only be something known, recognizable and categorical; it can simply be The Unknown. There's plenty of articles folks can download from my blogsite on my method - and more to come. Anyone who wants to be alerted to when the next magazine & ezine articles are available can sign my guestbook there. www.embodysuccess.spaces.live.com Lovingly sent, Lauralyn Isabella, you’re right. I just can’t be encyclopedic on these posts. What all forms of diet sabotage have in common is their purpose: to reduce intolerable levels of anxiety.
Learning to eat slowly and mindfully used to create huge anxiety in me, for example. I remember one therapist who told me to sit down for my meals and do absolutely nothing else but eat; put my whole attention on the experience of eating; to eat slowly and thoughtfully; to look at, smell and fully “masticate” by mouthfuls and to put my fork down in between.
“That’s obscene!” I blurted out instantly. A reaction that caught me off guard!
What we are dealing with is an internal war between the more rational aspects of our personality armed with data, motive and support elements engaging in a program to improve our quality of life and our “reptillian brain” hardwired to “save” us from any element/situation/person that represents a threat. A threat can not only be something known, recognizable and categorical; it can simply be The Unknown.
There’s plenty of articles folks can download from my blogsite on my method – and more to come.
Anyone who wants to be alerted to when the next magazine & ezine articles are available can sign my guestbook there.
http://www.embodysuccess.spaces.live.com
Lovingly sent,
Lauralyn

]]> By: isabella mori http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-416355 isabella mori Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:23:30 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/#comment-416355 @lauralyn "diet sabotage" is an important concept. there are a gazillion diets and exercise programs out there and many of them work. if you stick with them, that is. btw, i think the "shoveling" - or bingeing - is only one form of diet sabotage. grazing is another. and there's more ... unfortunately ... on an emotional level, "learning safe, healthy, pleasurable ways to reduce the anxiety" is probably one of the most important things people with eating disorders can do. and interestingly, that seems to be the case both for people who overeat as well as those who undereat. @lauralyn “diet sabotage” is an important concept. there are a gazillion diets and exercise programs out there and many of them work. if you stick with them, that is.

btw, i think the “shoveling” – or bingeing – is only one form of diet sabotage. grazing is another. and there’s more … unfortunately …

on an emotional level, “learning safe, healthy, pleasurable ways to reduce the anxiety” is probably one of the most important things people with eating disorders can do. and interestingly, that seems to be the case both for people who overeat as well as those who undereat.

]]> By: Lauralyn Bellamy http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-415384 Lauralyn Bellamy Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:31:09 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/#comment-415384 As a former yoyo dieter, I can tell you that until I learned how to consciously live IN my body and take an interest in how it felt to get healthier and STRONGER (a significant factor and distinction for women of the pre-Title IX world, where girls were not supposed to be physically strong, except in a few, narrowly prescribed venues - swimming, tennis) I could not imagine what I would look like. I remember the grandmotherly babysitter we used when our boys were very little who, because she cared about me, presented me with a refrigerator magnet in the shape of a leaping blue elephant. Across its white plastic tummy were the words, "NOTHING tastes as good as being THIN feels!" I dutifully placed it on our 'frig, made sure it survived two moves. Decades later, after living in a strong, normal sized body for over 5 years, I stopped and actually read that magnet again and realized I could agree; although, my definition of "thin" is actually "healthy" - sizes 6-10 women's. That's not "runway" thin, of course; but the world of fashion is sick, sick, sick. They are glorifying size 2 and size ZERO women who appear to be dying of starvation. This becomes painfully obvious to anyone who's watched an episode of Bravo-TV's "PROJECT RUNWAY." We see the designers fitting clothes on these skeletal females who seek to sculpt their bodies to resemble hungry 14-year old BOYS. That's why the powerful core of my coaching method is about giving clients the ability to develop the capacity to envision their future selves while simultaneously learning safe, healthy, pleasurable ways to reduce the anxiety that even contemplating living in a potentially normal body evokes. Diet sabotage is a desperate response to reduce an intolerable level of anxiety: people don't simply eat "COMFORT food," they shovel it down with an urgency that contradicts their self-image of someone who "loves food." People who love food slow down and savor it. Devouring food until one is "stuffed" is to eating for pleasure as violent rape is to the pleasure of making love. Thanks for listenning! Lauralyn As a former yoyo dieter, I can tell you that until I learned how to consciously live IN my body and take an interest in how it felt to get healthier and STRONGER (a significant factor and distinction for women of the pre-Title IX world, where girls were not supposed to be physically strong, except in a few, narrowly prescribed venues – swimming, tennis) I could not imagine what I would look like. I remember the grandmotherly babysitter we used when our boys were very little who, because she cared about me, presented me with a refrigerator magnet in the shape of a leaping blue elephant. Across its white plastic tummy were the words,
“NOTHING tastes as good as
being THIN feels!”
I dutifully placed it on our ‘frig, made sure it survived two moves. Decades later, after living in a strong, normal sized body for over 5 years, I stopped and actually read that magnet again and realized I could agree; although, my definition of “thin” is actually “healthy” – sizes 6-10 women’s. That’s not “runway” thin, of course; but the world of fashion is sick, sick, sick. They are glorifying size 2 and size ZERO women who appear to be dying of starvation. This becomes painfully obvious to anyone who’s watched an episode of Bravo-TV’s “PROJECT RUNWAY.” We see the designers fitting clothes on these skeletal females who seek to sculpt their bodies to resemble hungry 14-year old BOYS.

That’s why the powerful core of my coaching method is about giving clients the ability to develop the capacity to envision their future selves while simultaneously learning safe, healthy, pleasurable ways to reduce the anxiety that even contemplating living in a potentially normal body evokes. Diet sabotage is a desperate response to reduce an intolerable level of anxiety: people don’t simply eat “COMFORT food,” they shovel it down with an urgency that contradicts their self-image of someone who “loves food.” People who love food slow down and savor it. Devouring food until one is “stuffed” is to eating for pleasure as violent rape is to the pleasure of making love.

Thanks for listenning!
Lauralyn

]]> By: A dieter http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-413981 A dieter Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:14:44 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/#comment-413981 I think body image is the key. I mean how do you know when to stop dieting if you don't have a normal opinion of your own body. Looking out for part 2... I think body image is the key. I mean how do you know when to stop dieting if you don’t have a normal opinion of your own body.

Looking out for part 2…

]]> By: Lauralyn Bellamy http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-409442 Lauralyn Bellamy Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:05:08 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/#comment-409442 If you'd like to give yourself a moment of "the best medicine" - i.e. laughter, I took these photos a few days ago on the back deck of our house and turned them into a 1-minute slide show that tells this story: "DIET NIGHTMARE! SECRET EATER CAUGHT ON CAMERA! Just copy & paste this into your web browser space: www.embodysuccess.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!7BC360850B2BA149!425 Lovingly sent, Lauralyn If you’d like to give yourself a moment of “the best medicine” – i.e. laughter, I took these photos a few days ago on the back deck of our house and turned them into a 1-minute slide show that tells this story:
“DIET NIGHTMARE! SECRET EATER CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
Just copy & paste this into your web browser space: http://www.embodysuccess.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!7BC360850B2BA149!425
Lovingly sent,
Lauralyn

]]> By: isabella mori http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-408396 isabella mori Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:45:24 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/#comment-408396 hi @sebastian, and thanks for your comment. glad you like it. i went to your site; are you german? hi @sebastian, and thanks for your comment. glad you like it. i went to your site; are you german?

]]> By: Sebastian http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-407989 Sebastian Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:54:30 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/#comment-407989 woha, this blog is cool. I don't really understand everything ( i learnt english only in school and i'm not from US or GB). currently i'm beginning to study healthcare and nutrition and it seems that your articles come in very handy. Please keep writing, i think i can learn a lot from it. Thank you. woha,
this blog is cool.
I don’t really understand everything ( i learnt english only in school and i’m not from US or GB).
currently i’m beginning to study healthcare and nutrition and it seems that your articles come in very handy.
Please keep writing, i think i can learn a lot from it. Thank you.

]]> By: Kristie McNealy http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-406580 Kristie McNealy Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:11:38 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/carnival-of-eating-disorders-14-part-1/#comment-406580 Hi! Thanks for including my post on family meals. Nice work. -Kristie <em>Kristie McNealy's last blog post..<a href='http://www.kristiemcnealy.com/huckabee-backs-colorado-bill-defining-and-embryo-as-a-person/'>Huckabee Backs Colorado Bill Defining Embryos as People</a></em> Hi! Thanks for including my post on family meals. Nice work.
-Kristie

Kristie McNealy’s last blog post..Huckabee Backs Colorado Bill Defining Embryos as People

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