#ProjectBodyLove Day 10 of 30! Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating (Video)

Eating disorders are defined by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual’s physical and mental health. Bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa are the most common specific forms of eating disorders. Other types of eating disorders include binge eating disorder and OSFED.

OSFED is the acronym for “Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder.” OSFED replaces the category formerly called Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) and captures feeding disorders and eating disorders of clinical severity that do not meet diagnostic criteria for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. – via Wikipedia

This is not intended to diagnose or treat any medical illness. Please note that this post and this site do not constitute medical advice. See your own doctor or mental health practitioner to decide what healing modalities are right for you…

Greetings Sweetness,

Gift for you! Printable diary page food journal. Sharing for Project Body Love 30 Days Of Body Love, DAY TEN.

This food diary and mindful eating have been key for me in learning to eat in a healthy, mindful focused way. There’s room to journal your #food, emotions, and gratitude. Click here to download the Daily Love Body Spirit Diary.

A few years ago, a young woman wrote into one of my advice columns about her husband’s cheating. “Leia” said that she was Afro-Caribbean, raised in Maryland, and her community was rallying around the cheating husband. What loomed even larger than her challenging relationship issue, however, was her relationship with food and her body. Leia insisted that she couldn’t stop eating and found herself getting fatter with each of his infidelities. She asked me whether her being “unattractive and obese” was triggering the husband’s adultery. Luckily, I had space in one of my coaching programs, so I agreed to work with her one-on-one.

In our first session, it became clear that this beautiful woman had been a compulsive overeater, inflicting self-harm with food, for her entire adult life. However, when I turned the conversation to dealing with her eating disorder, she screamed, “Black women don’t have eating disorders!” Finish reading my Huffington Post piece, “Black Women Don’t Have Eating Disorders.”