S02 E21: The Statistics Don't Lie (Disordered Eating is Spreading Like A Wildfire!)

Nowadays where studies show that while less than 1% of American women suffer from anorexia and less than 1.5% of women suffer from bulimia...

Studies also show that 75% of American women suffer with Disordered Eating.

Let me say that again:

3/4 of the women in America suffer from Disordered Eating (and these studies only included Americans, but we also know it's a world wide epidemic).

Now here's the truth:

While pretty much everyone knows what an Eating Disorder is, most have never even heard of this thing called Disordered Eating (I know I sure hadn't!)

And considering that 75% of women suffer from it, I think it's a really important thing to know about -- and even more important that we talk about it

According to The National Eating Disorders Association Disordered Eating entails:

Frequent dieting, anxiety associated with specific foods or meal skipping. Preoccupation with food, weight and body image that negatively impacts quality of life. A feeling of loss of control around food, including compulsive eating habits.

In other words....

The Statistics Don't Lie (Disordered Eating is Spreading Like A Wildfire!)

Disordered Eating is everything that we talk about here on this podcast that I refer to as the diet mentality or the weight loss mentality...but I truly believe that Disordered eating is actually the cause AND effect of the Diet Mentality.

The CAUSE?

★ The mindset that there are "good foods" and "bad foods"
★ The thought-process of "eat less, move more".
★ Constantly focusing on your scale weight, jean size, or a calorie count.
★ Doing ANYTHING to move that scale or drop a few pounds....even if it means sacrificing your health or your happiness.
★ Constantly counting calories, carbs, fat grams, protein.
★ Always thinking about food, controlling yourself around food, or feeling OUT of control around food.

The EFFECT of all of this?

An extremely DISORDERED relationship with food.

And if you're anything like myself and all my clients...

You've been learning that way of thinking for a long time.

You learned it...just like I learned it. So let's un-learn it, shall we?

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