Do you think you have a problem with food and the way you eat? Are you looking for help?
You probably have an eating disorder if you have linked your body size, shape or weight to your self-esteem.
Maybe you judge each day a success or failure by how you eat?
Perhaps your thoughts about your body are constantly negative, self-critical and punishing?
Anorexia is an eating disorder that results in being underweight by restricting food intake. But it can also be through binge-eating and then compensating in some way, such as vomiting, over-exercising or fasting.
Bulimia nervosa describes a cyclical pattern of binge-eating and compensating.
Binging involves eating an amount of food in a two-hour period or less, that would objectively be described as large and excessive.
To compensate for a binge, a person may over-exercise, vomit, use diuretics and laxatives, use drugs or alcohol, fast, starve, eliminate food groups, restrict calories and more.
This pattern doesn’t usually result in much weight loss over time. People with bulimia are generally normal weight or slightly overweight.
Binge-eating involves eating more food than the body needs, either through meals that are too high in calories, or through “grazing” throughout the day, and sometimes in the night as well.
Those who binge-eat may gain a lot of weight over time
Orthorexia or “clean eating” can form part of an eating disorder. Sometimes it is confused with healthy living, but is really an obsession with unprocessed, nutritious, raw and pure food sources in order to restrict eating and manipulate body size, shape or weight. Orthorexia may also involve following demanding exercise regimes in an attempt to build muscle, lower body fat and attain body ideals. The effort to live in this way ultimately becomes a barrier to enjoying a full and fulfilling life.
The good news is that you can recover from any eating disorder.
And I can help you.
I am an expert in eating disorders and I can help you learn to live comfortably in your body and build the life you want.
I don’t use scales or diet plans. I won’t weigh or measure you.
An eating disorder has very little to do with food and a whole lot to do with relationship trauma, personal experience and feeling-states.
I use holistic, evidence-based practices to help guide you towards kinder, more effective choices and support you to find a way forward that works for you.
If you’ve decided you’re ready for change, I’m ready to help you. So please get in touch and together we can find your solution.
Please contact me to make an appointment.
Please be aware that psychotherapy should not be considered an emergency treatment. If you are feeling suicidal, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14, and contact your GP or other healthcare provider for extra support.
