Over 29 million Americans experience a clinically significant eating disorder during their lifetime. The National Alliance for Eating Disorders defines eating disorders as a psychological condition that affects your relationship with food. If you need outpatient services to help manage your body image or eating concerns, check out聽this聽. Food is not the enemy and you are more than a number on a scale. We come in many different and beautiful colors, shapes, and sizes. So let's focus on celebrating and honoring our bodies instead.
Disordered Eating Symptoms
- Extremely restricted eating
- Extreme thinness (emaciation)
- A relentless pursuit of thinness and unwillingness to maintain a normal or healthy weight
- Intense fear of gaining weight
- Distorted body image, a self-esteem that is heavily influenced by perceptions of body weight and shape, or a denial of the seriousness of low body weight
