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Touch: Physical Contact Can Speed Your Eating Disorder Recovery
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Power of touch" "We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth." Virginia Satir
Are you eating or exercising too much out of touch deprivation? Do you sink into a recliner or couch with comforting food to console your body?
Think about it. Loneliness and a sense of isolation exists when you suffer from an eating disorder. Bingeing on food or obsessing on being as small as possible by not eating are ways of addressing a deprivation. One of your deprivations could be skin on skin experiences. *photo
How Bedtime Snacks Affect Your Weight and Health
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If I had understood growth hormones earlier in my life I would have stopped bedtime snacks decades ago. Relaxing before bed with food, has more effect on your weight than you may realize. * pix
Bedtime Snacks Affect Children and Adults Differently
How the human body processes food changes as wel become adults. A simple milk and crackers before bed for a child can be lovely. The same snack for an adult can cause unexpected weight issues.
Children produce a growth hormone throughout a 24 hour period because, well, they are growing! But adults only produce the growth hormone when they are asleep.
Growth hormone supports your bone and muscle health. A bedtime snack stops the production of that hormone and that creates a loss of muscle
Debasement, Trudging, Self-Worth: includes reader responses.
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If you have an eating disorder, you often feel insecure and question your value as a person. You are certain that the criticism you give yourself is an echo of the criticism you believe is aimed at you from others. No amount of reassurance will alter your position. Reassurance, you believe, comes from people who mean well, are trying to soothe you, don't understand the reality of your worthlessness or are trying to exploit you by making you believe you are better than you know you are.
Dangerous Sexual Liaisons and Women with Eating Disorders
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Vulnerability of Women with Eating Disorders to Dangerous Sexual Liaisons
Age, looks or smiling faces are not indications of freedom from dangerous sexual liaisons just as appearance is not reliable evidence indicating the presence or absence of an eating disorder.
An eating disorder can thrust a woman into dangerous sexual experiences. She may not know she is walking into danger. She may not recognize the danger while it is actually happening to her because she is in a dissociative state or deep in an unealistic fantasy.More Articles ...
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