Building a positive relationship with food and your body
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Building a positive relationship with food and your body
Support for young people, caregivers and professionals
- Improve eating behaviours and relationship with food
- Build positive body image
- Identify concerns around body image and disordered eating
Explore our educational modules
- Feeling comfortable in your body
- Intuitive and balanced eating
- Breaking free from diet culture
- The difference between selective eating and ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)
- Understanding hunger
- Managing anxiety around food
- Understanding disordered eating
- Recognising the signs of disordered eating
- Supporting emotional regulation
What is Disordered Eating?
Disordered Eating is a phrase used to describe a range of irregular eating behaviours that may or may not warrant a diagnosis of a specific eating disorder.
People who experience disordered eating, whether diagnosed with an Eating Disorder or not, often have poor emotional awareness and have limited access to emotion regulation strategies.
FAQs from our community:
How can Be Body Positive help me overcome my disordered eating?
Why is early intervention so important?
Can disordered eating lead to an eating disorder?
What are the most common side effects of an eating disorder?
What is Body Image?
We can’t always see the extent of somebody’s body image struggles. Body image is the way you:
- Evaluate your appearance
- Think and feel about the way your body looks and functions
- Behave, treat and relate to your body
FAQs from our community:
How can Be Body Positive help me overcome my disordered eating?
Why is early intervention so important?
Can disordered eating lead to an eating disorder?
What are the most common side effects of an eating disorder?
What is AFRID?
People with ARFID eat a very limited variety or amount of food and it causes problems in their lives. These problems may be health related, like loosing too much weight, or not getting enough nutrients.
These problems may also be social, like not being able to eat meals with others.
FAQs from our community:
How can Be Body Positive help me overcome my disordered eating?
Why is early intervention so important?
Can disordered eating lead to an eating disorder?
What are the most common side effects of an eating disorder?
What is Normal Eating?
Normal eating is flexible. It varies in response to your emotions, schedule, hunger and proximity to food.
Examples of ‘normal’ eating include being able to eat when you’re hungry and continue eating until you are satisfied, overeating and undereating at times and giving yourself permission to eat all foods.
FAQs from our community:
How can Be Body Positive help me overcome my disordered eating?
Why is early intervention so important?
Can disordered eating lead to an eating disorder?
What are the most common side effects of an eating disorder?
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Binge-Eating Disorder Recovery
Young Person from Bedfordshire
I remember being around eight to nine years old and beginning to develop binge eating disorder symptoms. It was at a challenging point in my life when my parents split up and then when I went to secondary school, things got worse as I had more control over what I was eating…
