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We are a very diet conscious nation. Almost everyone, whatever their background, social status and income, is aware of dieting and thinks about or tries to lose weight sometime in their life.
For some, dieting has become their sole aim in life. For many others it's a ritual eating plan that they implement after festive times such as Christmas. There are dietholics who buy every possible diet book and gimmick around in the hope that it is going to be the answer to shifting their excess weight. Dieting is a multi-million pound business that effects us all.
Diet Facts - Read & Consider
Healthy eating has been promoted for over 20 years but we are still a fat nation.
Anorexia and Bulimia eating disorders used to only be related to Supermodels, film stars, dancers, anyone who's body is in the public eye. Today anyone can suffer.
You're in a high-flying, glamour job. Everyone around you is ultra-thin and fashion conscious. You simply HAVE to diet!
You're on a diet so your kids are on a diet!
Everyday you look in the mirror and say "I must lose a few pounds..."
You lose weight but you're still unhappy. Inside you feel fat.
You look at others eating and think "How can they eat what they like..." - you simply can't
You decide to diet before you attempt to put on workout gear and go to class.
You lose weight for a while .. then you regain it.. and more.
You're so preoccupied with food and dieting there's no time for anything else.
You're overweight, you're in emotional pain and find it hard to break the cycle of bingeing, yo-yo dieting and bulimia.
You turn the lights off when you undress in front of your partner because you feel fat and ashamed of your body
Do you intend to diet for life? If so why? You're mad, always feeling hungry and disliking yourself.
You can't stop thinking about fattening foods ...
You are always on a diet.
Our lifestyles, Our daily stress, Our up bringing have turned us into diet freaks.
A balanced diet means eating from all the food groups.
We all know what we should eat but we don't do it.
You're so thin you're anorexic. You think you are in control of your body but your body is in control of you.
You don't go out and socialise because you're on a diet...
A good diet means healthy nutritional eating - not starving yourself.
What happened to the family meal?
What happened to home cooking?
What happened to a balanced diet?
What happened to simply enjoying food?
What happened to feasting for celebration?
From Dieting To Eating Disorders
Extreme dieting leads to eating disorders - the ultimate in trying to control ones weight, either through anorexia or when the person simply starves themselves. Anorexics are such controllers they cannot see the problem.
A Bulimic has an irresistible urge to eat without restraint, triggered by particular moods, events, stress or circumstance. Drastic efforts are used to counteract the effect of the binge from self induced vomiting, laxatives, diuretics and other drugs to complete starvation.
Bingeing is not uncommon. everyone I know binges at sometime, whether it's a food or drink binge, simply stuffing ones self at a meal or in private or PMT bingeing on food because you love the taste. Your enjoyment of food is totally different from stress bingeing that's out of control (where you don't taste what you eat). Bulimia is the vomitting of the food you've stuffed yourself with secretly to avoid weight gain or to eliminate the fullness from the out of control binge by vomiting and using an excessive amount of laxatives. Bulimia is a more complicated eating disorder. There is more than one type of Bulimia.
Bulimia Nervosa has always been reported as an eating disorder related to anorexia. Bulimia Nervosa occurs when the key symptoms of anorexia -severe persistent loss of weight and the absence of monthly periods have subsided. What continues is the fear of calories and fat - enter Bulimia Nervosa.
Bulimarexia. Bulimia can be part of Anorexia Nervosa. An estimated 50% of established anorexics binge from time to time. What they eat may not be excessive but they still vomit as part of the constant effort to diet to remain in control.
Normal Weight Bulimia (NWB) is when Bulimia occurs without being anorexic. The person's body weight is near normal or above.
Binge Eating Disorder is the unrestrained eating that is so
similar to Bulimia yet the person does not panic with guilt afterwards.
This person does not vomit to get rid of the food as long as there is
no huge increase in weight. It becomes a habit if the person has emotional
and relationship problems effecting your work and social life.
Binge eating is now considered to be part of the same disorder as Bulimia.
A binge eater can become a Bulimic when they discover the immediate
release from vomiting, which may be accidental on the first occasion
due to gluttony.
Abnormal Weight Control Syndrome is predominantly a female problem.
The girl or woman feels fat even if they are of normal weight. The girl
panics and starves, vomits or purges herself , even if she hasn't over-eaten.
She is then ravenously hungry and starts to binge - enter the vicious
circle of Bulimia.
FACT:
90% of Bulimics are women in their 20's.
10% are male in the same age group
Bulimia is rare in Afro-Caribbean or Asian communities
Bulimics are obsessed with food, calories and fat.
Eating disorders are not something you simply brush aside or accept. Help is needed badly, whether you or someone close to you binges, vomits or starves, the reality is that you need help. We have Bulimics, Anorexics and then we have the obese. The outsize person you occasionally see shopping or trying to walk down the street. Most obese people hide away from the public eye, but they are there existing in a very inactive world.
FACT:
Over 5 million adults in the UK are obeseO Recent Government statistics
show that the prevalence of clinical obesity is doubling each decade
US rates of obesity are already much higher than in Britain and are
still rising fast.
The Health of the Nation Targets
By the year 2005, to reduce the proportion of obese people from:B MEN:
13% to 6%M WOMEN: 16% to 8%W
The ASO Reports That . . . Treatment which could be a way forward in
terms of obesity therapy include:
1 A continual diary of bingeing and eating habits are kept for clinical
reference
2 Identifying the weight cycle and then understanding and accepting
that short term weight loss cannot be sustained.
3. Weight maintenance may be more important than the effects of yo-yo
dieting and weight fluctuation for long term benefits.
4 Weight loss should not be the only goal, reducing health risk should
also be a priority.
5 Physical activity should be designed to motivate and give results
for obese clients.
6 There has to be an understanding of the appearance related problems
that the obese person suffers, from body image to society's reaction
toward them.
7 Obesity is not a simple problem of over-eating.
8 Social support is vital.
9 Change can only happen when the patient is ready to adopt positive
lifestyle behaviour patterns.
10 There are many self help manuals and a wide range of professionals
which are there for the obese, yet no 2 people are alike and what works
for one may not work for another.
11 To prevent future obesity, health education is vital in schools and
throughout the media.
Eds Comment: It's time the fitness world created programmes
that really DO cater for the obese.
My vision for 2005 would be the development of wellness centres that
combine nutritional and exercise programmes for everyone, run jointly
with doctors, nutritionists and down-to-earth, unintimidating qualified
fitness instructors.
For further information regarding obesity contact: Mrs C Hawkins, Association for The Obese Secretary, 20 Brook Meadow Close, Woodford Green, Essex, IG8 9NR
Dieting is the Weight War. The only way to win is breaking the habit.
This means sorting out the reasons why you need to diet, starve yourself
or binge. Many fit cynics state that you have a problem because you
simply eat too much and are not active enough. Their answer is simple!...
Is it really? There are so many social, lifestyle, emotional and genetic
reasons for our nations weight problem, yet the main reason is dieting
and inactivity.
Taking that step may seem impossible. For the past few months I have researched numerous books and have found 3 which really may be the key to your problems. Personally, my favourite is GMTV Beechy Colclough 'It's Not What You Eat But Why You Eat It.' This book is like a conversation. As you read, you think you're having a conversation with Beechy.
To start with, he hits hard in his writing manner addressing your eating problems and then he takes you through his programme. He is full of home truths that I was able to handle. I did not feel exposed or upset reading his book.
Dr Joan Gomez, a consulting psychiatrist to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital who specialises in treating binge eating to bulimia has a book, 'How To Cope With Bulimia' which is harder to read. It woke several hidden memories from my childhood and teenage days which are the cause of my chocaholic binges which maybe, one day soon, I will be able to overcome. Yet I have to face up to various problems to achieve this.
Diet Breakers, by Mary Evans Young is a book that deals with the diet scam. Mary puts everything into prospective. It's an ideal book if you've spent years worrying about your weight, counting calories and are fed up with dieting but don't know how to stop.
Mary Evans Young runs Diet Breakers, an International organisation who have established International NO Diet Day, creating a focus for the Media and Press on the industry's exploitation. This may sound all very political but it's necessary. You, as the consumer have the right to know what you are really spending your money on. MP Alice Mahon introduced a Bill to regulate the diet industry.
The aims of the Bill were based on the legislation that New York City has introduced:
* All weight loss centres to prominently display a health warning that
rapid weight loss is dangerous to health.
* All weight loss companies to provide all consumers with a card which
clearly outlines the benefits and the risks of weight loss.
* All weight loss companies to disclose additional charges that the
consumer may incur for the purchase of products, laboratory tests etc.
* All diet and weight loss pills and potions to be brought under the
Medicines Act.
So, what does one do? Rebel and throw all dieting to the wind and decide that life's worth living, you stay fat, eat what you like and try to love yourself?... It's not quite that simple.
The key is to take responsibility for yourself. Don't look at a diet plan to change your life. "Tackle the emotional feelings that are the course of your diet mania or eating disorder" is the message that Beechy Colclough gives.
Taking responsibility means taking the steps to seek help - whether it is via a therapist, support group or your family - do SOMETHING.
You may now feel "Yes, I can do it but how do I eat now? What guidelines are there to help me?" Get the book 'Healthy Eating On A Plate' by Janette Marshall. Her book put you on the road to successful eating. It dispels the myths and confusion surrounding dietary advice. She explains you don't have to give up eating the foods you enjoy - just learn how to get the right balance!
Lydia Campbell
Diet Breaking, published by Hodder & Stoughton, price £6.99
Healthy Eating On A Plate, published by Vermilion, price £7.99
Its Not What You Eat, It's Why You Eat It, published by Vermilion, price
£8.99
How To Cope With Bulimia, published by Sheldon Press, price £5.99