Free resources for bulimia and binge eating
Free resources to help with bulimia or binge eating.
Some great free stuff
I have put together some free resources to help people with bulimia or binge eating to make the first step to recovery by getting some expert help.
If you are willing to change. If you are ready to change.
But for some reason you are just NOT able to take that first step and get help with your eating disorder.
If for whatever reason you can not get help at this time, here is a series of articles that will help you get a better understanding of your condition and realise that help is available.
But first, when you feel the time is right to get some help – here’s a bit of advice on how to pick an effective recovery treatment
How to choose an effective bulimia or binge eating recovery treatment
When you feel the time is right to get some help - here's a bit of advice on how to pick an effective recovery treatmentGood treatment programme
- Structured eating to nourish your body to health
- Flexible rules that are simple and easy to follow
- Skill building to increase your resilience
- Work with you as an individual at your own speed
Bad treatment programme
- Restrictive dieting
- ‘Silver Bullet’ – show you the one vital secret
- Expensive and/or secret supplements
- Over complicated set of ‘iron rules’
A good place to start
A good place to start is this interview I did with Kelly Clark from It Took Me 10 Years To Lose 10 Pounds where I outline the way I help people with bulimia and binge eating to recover.
I have been a fan of Kelly’s for years now. She consistently comes up with great information in a really accessible and fun way.
Kelly speaks from the heart and what she says it simply brilliant. If you follow just one blog make sure it is Kelly’s!
I did the reading so you don’t have too
Arm yourself with knowledge
There is so much misinformation out there, that it is often difficult to separate the good from the bad and the ugly. When you are in an emotional state it is difficult to judge good information, from what is misinformed, stupid and often down right dangerous.
I have weeded out the ‘bad and the ugly’ – here is some of the ‘good stuff’
Watch and read what these talented, dedicated and knowledgeable, mostly women have to tell you. Then use that knowledge to judge the value of what the next money making fad diet guru is peddling.
Here’s a good place to start
The Truth About Clean Eating: clean eating’s dirty secrets
Grace Victory investigates what is peddled over the internet as clean eating. This is an informative documentary (approx 35 mins) which shows how clean eating has been distorted into a money making industry.
Can we trust them these self appointed experts? Grace actually asks dieticians to comment on claims by this group such as ‘milk draws calcium from our bones resulting in calcium deficit’ hmm…. can you imagine what the dietician said?
Watch this you’ll love it.
Watch now !
When you own your belly jelly
Here is a group of women who are not falling into the trap of trying to gain an unattainable body shape before getting on and enjoying their lives. Do you want to argue with them – err feel free – I don’t. (approx 1 min 30 secs).
Watch now !
Millstone – eating disorders as they are lived
If you have every tried to tell someone what it is like to have an eating disorder and they – just don’t get it – get them to watch this short film (approx 30 mins).
If you are having problems with your GP, explaining how you feel – get them to watch this short film.
This remarkable film by ‘Men Get Eating Disorders Too’ – simply lays out just what it feels like to suffer with an eating disorder and the tragic effects that can happen.
Watch now !
The following videos and blogs will help you recover
The secret way to eat fewer calories
When I see titles like this I inwardly groan and think ‘here we go again’. Not this time. Let me introduce you to Lydia Wente who has a youtube channel called ‘Life with Lydia’. Lydia was a binge eater of many years and one day she read a book – and ‘got it’ – she never binged again.
But she realises that not everyone – ‘gets it’. She sees her channel as a way of helping those people to ‘get it’ put bingeing behind them and get on with their lives.
Lydia is a bit cooky to some tastes but go with it, it’s less than 2 minutes long and she makes a really good point
Watch now !
Stop grazing
This is a brilliant blog by Kelly Clark from www.the10principles.com
Kelly who had spent 10 years of restricting her diet and carrying out a punishing exercise regime. She finished up, basically not eating meals but grazing through the day. But no matter how hard she tried, she was always between 10 and 30lbs overweight. In this blog Kelly tells how she made took on the identity of ‘someone who was a grazer’ – how grazing makes your bulimia or binge eating worse – how she started eating meals again and finally, how amongst other things, she actually lost weight – once she started eating normally.
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Treating bulimia: Step 1: this is the first step in becoming a normal eater
This short video (approx 8 mins) from Shaye Boddington from www.your-bulimiarecovery.com highlights the importance of structured eating in bulimia and binge eating recovery. In a previous video Shaye explains how the biggest mistake people make when trying to recover is to skip this stage. But without structured eating most recovery attempts are doomed to fail. Here Shaye explains just what this vital first step involves.
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Asking for help
Finally, Kelly Clark gives 3 reasons of why you should ask for help
Asking for help is a strength
Problem solving involves asking for help
When you open up other people do too
I would like to add a further reason – getting help is your best chance of recovery
– just do it and DO IT TODAY
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Take away message
Its not your fault
Your eating disorder has nothing to do with your lack of discipline, motivation or will power- it’s to do with biology. Anybody who does what you do, will end up in the same place as you are now. So lighten up and arm yourself with knowledge.
Stop beating yourself up – it’s just that sometime in your past, you took a turn in the road and ended up here. Learn how to get from here to where you want to be.
Arm yourself with knowledge
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