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March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 ~ messyhealth ~ Leave a comment

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For many of us, our eating disorder co-exists with other types of trauma and we may use the eating disorder to cope with the other trauma. But your eating disorder will never actually heal any part of you. Those traumas will still exist, the situations that your eating disorder helps you feel in control, will still exist and until we address these underlying traumas or disordered behaviours, our eating disorder will still be here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Your eating disorder will never make you healthier mentally or physically either. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This being said, all of us have coping mechanisms, we don’t live in a world that prioritise healing so we look for any way we can to cope and that’s so fucking normal, so don’t feel like you’re the only one who does this because you’re definitely not. Also, if you’re not in a place where you can begin to heal from your eating disorder or anything else, that’s okay too, we are all in different situations with access to different things. Your feelings are valid, wherever you’re at.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #HAES #healthateverysize #nondiet #ditchthediet #fuckdietculture #thereisnowrongwaytohaveabody #allbodiesaregoodbodies #bodykindness #bodyrespect #keto #paelo #vegan #selfcompassion #feminism #fightfatphobia #joyfulmovement #edrecovery #eatingdisorderrecovery #bodytrust #mindfuleating #intuitiveeaating #weightstigma #dietculture #dietculturedropout #nutritionist #diet #nondietapproach #food #foodie #foodporn

This post is going to be more personal than science based (even though research does support what I’m saying here).⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’ve spoken to you guys about the experiences I’ve had with my eating disorder. I have certain characteristics that predisposed me to developing an eating disorder. I am a people pleaser, a perfectionist and because of trauma that I have experienced, I often find myself tightly controlling things like my diet in order to feel like I have some level of control over my life. I was diagnosed with PTSD when I was 19 and I have no doubt that it was one of the biggest contributors to me developing an eating disorder. It was a way for me to feel in control and one of the hardest parts about recovery was surrendering to the idea that I’m not always going to be able to control and predict what happens to me, but that doesn’t mean I have to hurt myself to feel in control. For a long time, I had no idea I had an eating disorder, but through recovering from PTSD and past trauma, the disordered patterns begin to resolve and I realised I had an eating disorder co-existing and I was using it as a coping mechanism, it worked, until it didn’t. Recovery opened up a lot for me, but when we begin to heal parts of us, it isn’t uncommon to undercover trauma we have experienced can be connected to other disordered behaviours. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #vegan #foodie #food #nutritionfacts #science #rd2be #health #healthy #fitfam #fitnessmotivation #dietculture #bopo #bodypositive #fightfatphobia #haes #healthateverysize #cleaneating #nourishnotpunish #antidietproject #feminism #fit #foodgasm #cooking #foodie #foodporn #quote #lifebeyonddieting #foodphsych #effyourbeautystandards #dietculture

Believe it or not, when you hear yourself criticising you or your food choices, it’s not you, its you’re eating disorder and sometimes separating your eating disorder from yourself allows you to see things from a different perspective. This quickly allows you to distinguish when it’s your eating disorder talking or not. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you start thinking that you’re going to gain weight from eating, that you shouldn’t eat or should over exercise, try to understand that these are parts of you that are scared and while they need your compassion, they also require boundaries. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When my eating disorder would talk, I was told to treat it like another person. So when I would criticize myself, I would picture someone else and they would be criticising themselves, I quickly realised that the compassion I would give to someone else in that state should be given to myself as well. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #vegan #foodie #food #nutritionfacts #science #rd2be #health #healthy #fitfam #fitnessmotivation #dietculture #bopo #bodypositive #fightfatphobia #haes #healthateverysize #cleaneating #nourishnotpunish #antidietproject #feminism #fit #foodgasm #cooking #foodie #foodporn #quote #lifebeyonddieting #foodphsych #effyourbeautystandards #dietculture

As a health professional, I’m often more curious to learn about why you eat more than what you eat. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Not to say that what you eat isn’t important but I choose to focus on the underlying thoughts you might have that are also influencing your health as well. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you’re a health professional and are helping people, we can’t just educate them on healthier food choices if their eating is disordered. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Why you eat if just as influential on health than what you eat. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The guilt or shame you may feel around food is just as detrimental to your health than any ‘bad’ good out there. Just like having a healthy and happy relationship with food can positively impact your health. So healing your relationship with food is an important and often to me, one of the first steps we take in promoting health.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #HAES #healthateverysize #nondiet #ditchthediet #fuckdietculture #thereisnowrongwaytohaveabody #allbodiesaregoodbodies #bodykindness #bodyrespect #keto #paelo #vegan #selfcompassion #feminism #fightfatphobia #joyfulmovement #edrecovery #eatingdisorderrecovery #bodytrust #mindfuleating #intuitiveeaating #weightstigma #dietculture #dietculturedropout #nutritionist #diet #nondietapproach #food #foodie #foodporn

There are many reasons why people aren’t receiving adequate healthcare and if you’re someone who has a lot of privilege, you might not even realise that some people aren’t treated the same in a healthcare setting. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Medical voidance is real, marginalised folk avoid medical care out of fear of mistreatment and they have a right to have that fear. Diagnostic processes rarely occur for fat folk; they’re just told their concern is the result of their weight. I personally have only had one experience at the doctors where the doctor didn’t try and put me on birth control, I should also state that I’ve never gone in and spoken with my doctor about it either, they just bring it up. I’ve also had my weight brought up, I honestly have never met anyone has hasn’t had their weight brought up. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In Australia, we are seeing indigenous women dying because their concerns weren’t taken seriously when they sought out medical attention, this is a serious issue. If people were so concerned with people’s health, they would make it accessible, adequate and safe for everyone. Adequate healthcare is a basic human right. If you’re a health professional, start with you, make your practise inclusive and safe. Educate yourself on culturally appropriate care, fatphobia and other social justice issues. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #vegan #foodie #food #nutritionfacts #science #rd2be #health #healthy #fitfam #fitnessmotivation #dietculture #bopo #bodypositive #fightfatphobia #haes #healthateverysize #cleaneating #nourishnotpunish #antidietproject #feminism #fit #foodgasm #cooking #foodie #foodporn #quote #lifebeyonddieting #foodphsych #effyourbeautystandards #dietculture

I personally love reading research, it also took me years to be able to dissect research ad be able to tell if its good quality or not (did anyone else looooove dissecting research in uni, just me?). One of the reasons I created messy health is because I knew how overwhelming research can be and wanted to show people good quality research in a more digestible way. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One of the first things I learnt about research is that it rarely takes every influence into consideration. Many would agree that there is a lot of research out there linking higher weight with poor health outcomes, but how can we possibly draw that conclusion when there are so many other factors that influence health? Restriction is one of them, when accounted for, its consistently show to lead to poorer health outcomes (check out my research highlight for the studies), so why is this not as known? This could be for various reasons but the point of this post is that there are thousands of things that influence our health, it’s difficult to take all of them into consideration without completely controlling the intervention (which comes with its known issues clearly) so be critical of the research and think about whether the intervention has represented and discussed other influences that could’ve impacted the results.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #haes #healthateverysize #nondiet #bopo #bodypositive #wellness #liveinspired #wellnessjourney #nourishyourself #cleaneating #fit #fitness #dietculture #keto #vegan #paleo #cleanliving #nutrition #dietitian #foodfacts #science #food #foodie #foodporn #fightfatphobia #fitness #antidiet #whole30 #rd2be #mentalhealth

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