Eating Disorders

Enlarge Image As priority for an hour glass figure rising now, there are consistent worries brewing up among people like "I m too fat" and "I have to be thinner". It is understandable if you are using diet and exercise in a healthy way to maintain an appropriate weight, but we often find people so obsessed with the common cliché that they start following an unhealthy eating behavior.

What are the main reasons for eating disorders?

You might think that an extra effort to control your eating can help you to achieve the desired figure, but what if your eating habit starts consuming your thoughts and dictate your social life. Well, in that case, the things may slip out of control for you. Your determined stance to lose a few pounds may finally affect your life with unhealthy eating disorders. They can do extreme harm to your normal body functioning and can sometimes be deadly.

These days the common practices among people for weight loss are:

1) Eating less, missing their regular meals, starving or limiting calories to a ridiculously low level.
2) Only eating particular things (for example, broccoli, white rice and popcorn) at the expense of a nutritional and healthy diet
3) Taking severe measures to maintain your body weight (purging through vomiting, excessive exercise)

The main types of eating disorders

The research and information is more or less focused around three eating diseases: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating:

--Anorexia nervosa originates from negative attitudes about body shape and appearance. If you are weighing less by 15 percent your normal weight and you are still persisting with losing weight by not eating, you may be another victim of anorexia nervosa.

--Bulimia nervosa is inhibited by excessive eating and then doing away of the food by vomiting, taking enemas. This behavior is generally quoted as "purging".

--Binge eating disorder evolves when there's a large amount of consumption of food, even when a person is not hungry. This type of behavior is most common among women seeking weight loss programs.

Treatments for eating disorders

If you are suffering from any eating disorders, you don't have to worry but need to act patiently. There are numerous treatments available and what's required now is a timely step towards your fine recovery.

The treatment of eating disorders follows the certain phases:
(1) Replenishing the weight lost due to severe dieting and purging;
(2) Diagnosis for psychological disturbances such as low self-esteem, feel embarrassed of figure.
(3) Achieving long-term rehabilitation, or full recovery.
(4) Sometimes patient has to be provided with counseling mainly focusing on help to change their attitude and perception towards life. They are also taught the rigid definition of beauty and how it relates to weight and body type.

Formula for life

We should understand that the cause of weight gain is not just limited to our diet. There are some hereditary and metabolic changes taking place in our body which may result in a dramatically weight gain. We all tend to panic at this stage, start missing our regular meals and fell prey to eating disorders. But rather than straining our stomachs a lot, we should follow a healthy lifestyle by eating nutritious foods and regular exercise.