15 Ways To Alleviate Your Anxiety. Anxiety often underlies eating disorders.
For many individuals, engaging in eating disorder behaviors helps to soothe them – only temporarily, of course. Anxiety also contributes to emotional eating and can worsen body image issues. (How many times have you been tense and taken it out on your body? Or vice versa? Or mistook discomfort and nervousness for “feeling fat”?) But while anxiety seems incredibly overwhelming when you’re caught in its clutches, you can do so many things to minimize your anxiety. 1. This is a biggie because sleep-deprivation increases anxiety. 2. Being active is seriously an elixir for anxiety. And I know this has become my mantra but seriously, pick physical activities that you love. 3. Anxiety is scary, especially if you’ve struggled with panic attacks and know precisely where anxiety can lead you.
As I’m sure you’ve learned, fighting anxiety does no good and berating yourself about it only fuels your symptoms. 4. 5. Worry is anxiety’s best friend. Take Care of YOU - The Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders. Nourishing the Soul - A forum on body image and the effects of eating disorders. Loving Your Body, No Conditions Necessary. Last week I published a variety of amazing posts for Body Image Warrior Week.
Today, I want to share my post. Happy Friday, and I hope you enjoy the post! I used to think that in order to love my body or really just tolerate it, I had to be thin. I had to have a flat stomach, small hips and sky-high cheekbones.And I had to earn this love, this tolerance. I had to earn it at the gym — punitively pounding the pavement of a treadmill — and at the dinner table — carefully, nervously watching what I ate. I used to think that I didn’t deserve to feel good about my body or myself overall because my figure didn’t fit the above criteria.
But either way, I felt that I couldn’t enjoy my body until I’d lost weight. Recently I read a powerful guest post by Rebecca Soule on Anna Guest-Jelley’s beautiful blog Curvy Yoga. The part about the creaky joints and achy knees really gave me pause because it refers to loving your body through it all. And it makes so much sense. If it were, no one would love. Marc and Angel Hack Life - Practical Tips for Productive Living. Helping each other get sane about food. Easy Tips for Planning a Healthy Diet & Sticking to It. Healthy eating tip 1: Set yourself up for success To set yourself up for success, think about planning a healthy diet as a number of small, manageable steps rather than one big drastic change.
If you approach the changes gradually and with commitment, you will have a healthy diet sooner than you think. Simplify. Instead of being overly concerned with counting calories or measuring portion sizes, think of your diet in terms of color, variety, and freshness. This way it should be easier to make healthy choices. Think of water and exercise as food groups in your diet. Water. Exercise. Healthy eating tip 2: Moderation is key People often think of healthy eating as an all or nothing proposition, but a key foundation for any healthy diet is moderation. For most of us, moderation or balance means eating less than we do now. Try not to think of certain foods as “off-limits.” Healthy eating tip 3: It's not just what you eat, it's how you eat Eat with others whenever possible. Greens. Sugar Salt.