Care for people with eating disorders

June 25, 2009 · Posted in Bulimia and Anorexia 

It often requires a multidisciplinary treatment nutritionist, psychiatrist and psychologist, due to the interplay psychic / physical being presented. The delicacy of the problem is that dealing with a food addiction is not something we can banish from our lives like a drug, since we need to feed several times per day. The key lies in establishing a healthy relationship with food.

Among the treatment options we have the cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, rehabilitation and food motivate the individual to exercise, to come into contact with your body and more able to control it.

It is important not to count calories, they are not concentrated in the fat or property of food itself, but should also pay attention to what is happening inside of one, how much food will be consumed and how they will feel in the stomach, how much food is actually needed. Concentrate on the physical signs that your body emits, learning to listen and stop when you’re moderately full. Attention should be paid to the real hunger signal.

There can be no forbidden foods, because if you do this will be more difficult to maintain in order to listen to the body to generate anxiety by deprivation, we must consciously give us permission to eat what we want. To eat, we must be mindful of what we eat, enjoy each bite and take our time to eat (at least 20 minutes). Avoid eating when you’re too hungry because this way is eat quickly and be harder to stop. It is necessary only eat when we feel a little hungry and end feeling a little full.

When we started eating something we should not feel that all our effort and ruin the day, because this is still eating calorie foods out of control, saying to yourself that tomorrow will be treated again start from scratch. When you overeat once a day, you should not blame yourself or let yourself go, continues as if nothing had happened, if a meal you could not control yourself not mean you should let the rest of your meals are also exaggerated.

Do not eat food just because you’re there, pay attention to your internal signals of hunger, why are you eating now? “You’re actually hungry or are looking for food to deal with something difficult for you? Neither plan to overeat, if you have a party do not think you can eat uncontrollably and then try to compensate with any diet or some other method.

When you feel hungry have to wonder why, if we are tempted to overeat think if we are reacting to something or someone from our environment. We must be careful with what we serve at the plate, since we tend to eat everything in it, so it is recommended utilzar small plates when eating.

Do not let others pressure you, but you’re hungry or is there anything in particular you do not want to eat, do not let you induce others to do something you do not.

It is very important to write down what you eat during the day and what felt doing it. We label the consequences of our behavior in positive and negative, and identify what triggers the binge. Learn to monitorearte yourself, take care of yourself.

We must learn to eat only when conditions are appropriate, which means eating a certain time, not letting more than four hours between meals and that when they eat is free from distractions, aware of what we eat, slowly and in a comfortable, not standing in the kitchen, never in the kitchen that always tempts us to eat more than they should.

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