Eating Disorders resources & information thread

EATING DISORDERS HEALTH RESOURCES & INFO THREAD

The moderators thought that we would start a place where we can have links to helpful discussions on the psychology of eating disorders, what they are, how to get help, and questions & strategies for recovery.

You and are going through the same things as one another and if you are willing to share the journey great progress can be made ... No one can do this for you. You have to do the work and the work is hard, but you can share the journey.

Knowledge is Power! Awareness is power!

Recognizing you have a problem and wanting to change - that is where to start.

Please share, feel free to link to it in other discussions here at Calorie Count! And please feel free to add information and links also!

But remember, none of this is intended as medical advice. Please reach out in the real world ~ there are friends & family who love you and medical professionals who have experience and training and the desire to help you.

All you have to do is ask... reach out & grab some help! Live life!

Calorie Count Expert on Eating Disorders Matthew Tiemeyer's page:

• Eating Disorders
• About.com Guide to Eating Disorders (free newsletter)

Info on treatment that is free or low cost

• ANRED
  

Supportive websites with information

• National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA, also has a newsletter)
• ANAD - National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (pro-recovery resources and free support network)
• Something Fishy (pro-recovery & info website)
• Mirror Mirror (pro-recovery website)
• Eating Disorders Online (pro-recovery & info website)
• Academy for Eating Disorders (general info)
• Pale Reflections (pro-recovery resources and more)

Books, newspaper and magazine articles

• Aimee Liu "Gaining"
• 15 styles of distorted thinking (if you have an ED maybe you are having difficulty admitting the problem and could have distorted thinking)
• NYTimes series of articles on Eating Disorders
• One Spoonful at a Time (NYTimes article)

Helplines/Hotlines

• NEDA helpline: (800) 931-2237
• ANAD hotline (847) 831-3438 (also have support groups available!)
• Pale reflections webpage with National/International hotline numbers
  

Nutrition and Weight Information

• Ask Mary
  
• Nutritionist Mary Hartley's "Ask Mary" answers for EDs
  
• Calorie Count's Expert Mary Hartley's page on Nutrition
• http://www.kidsnutrition.org/ (Children's nutritional information page)
• http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/nutrition/ (Nutrition/Health for Teens)
• About.com BMI calculator for teenagers and children (also works for adults)
• Extreme dieting and why it doesn't work
• The Body Neglected (how does persistent undereating damage the body)

Personal stories about Eating Disorders (also their lasting effects)

• Anorexia as a treatable disease with longterm effects (a personal CCers account)
• Anorexia: The physical devastation (you tube video from personal experience)
• Anorexia nearly killed my wife
• Obesity on 800 calories a day
  

Creating a Positive Body Image

• Helping Teenage Girls to Create a Positive Body Image (by Quaker Oats)

Any resources on binge eating disorder. I've had it for 9 years, and I'm trying to recover, but I'm only 17 and I'm kind of going it alone, since I don't really have a resource and can't really submit myself to intensive recuperation programs (I also technically don't fit the criteria since I don't have binges as frequently as twice a week). Any help for someone like me?

Have you checked our Calorie Count Plus resident expert Matthew Tiemeyer's Eating Disorders Resources page? There is a lot of information on BED there. In addition, Matthew's Eating Disorders blog on about.com has loads of info which could help.

Here is a website and a free helpline where anyone can get help:

• http://www.something-fishy.org/
• http://www.something-fishy.org/whatarethey/be .php

Here is the reliable and trustworthy Mayo Clinic's page on BED. It has a section on self-care and coping which really might help ... check it out:

• https://www.mayoclinic.com/health/binge-eatin g-disorder/DS00608

Also, the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) has a help line that you can call Monday-Friday during business hours. A phone counselor could offer you further support and suggest local resources which will fit into your budget, time and recovery process: 800-931-2237 (www.neda.org).

Thnks so much for your reply......I am hopeful and happy to find support!!!

My family thinks I might have an ED but I hardly agree. I saw my GP not too long ago and he said that I was too large to have anorexia/Bulimia nervosa. But the more I learn about these things, I think I might have one of them.

I'm 5'5" and 137 lbs (Hardly Anorexic/Bulemic material, I know), but my mind can't stop thinking about food. I HAVE to eat my food (if I do have to eat it) in a sopecific way (I.E: Colour coding my salad, then rearranging them piece by peice, and depending on what's in it, i eat only three bites of each section starting from the smallest/litest section first). I go through about 5 or six Extra-strength laxatives a day, take water pills, and when I do crash and binge (eating over 1,200 calories in a day), I end up feeling just horribleand try to counteract what I had done by laxatives, excercise and sometimes, though rarely now, using Ipecac.

But still my doctor says I do not have an eating disorder, that I am too heavy to classify to get help. It's times like these that I DO have some moment of clarity and realise that I MAY be sick. Though I really do not have room - or the degree- to say so.

I just need to know i'm not going completely insane. Again, I am not at an unhealthy weight, but I think my obsession with food can't be all that healthy

nycgirl thanks a million for posting this , its so helpful ive recently been searchin the web for anythin that will help me recover an these sights are amazing. im currently in recovery from anorexia/bulimia and im struggling although i eat healthy now and enough to maintain my current weight. however i need to start gaining weight to reach a healthy bmi as im currently 83lbs and 5ft 6.5 witha  bmi of 14. i find it so hard after loosing so much weight an then being uncerweight for so long to even imagine how 2 start gaining weight but at this stage i no i have to. and i hope i can find some support here from others who are in similar positions. i will get better , im determined to get my life back from the grips of anorexia. i usued to be badly bulimic last year as in between eatin healthy i wud have bad days of binging and getting sick and that stopped for a few months which i was so proud of but in the past month its happened again once a week an i need to get it under control b4 it takes over again. is anyone else in similar positions or can give me any advice or help? i wud really appreciate it,

lauren

Just wanted to say that if any of you a teenager and need some support to please join my group and will be happy to help cheer you up the best I can! :D

http://caloriecount.about.com/d-t-angry-deter mined-g290