Eating Disorders
Researchers discovered that doing healing things can help with eating disorders
Healthy Support
Social media eating disorder recovery pages such as Project HEAL help people find social support for recovery, but social networking sites that glamorize the “thin ideal” can make eating disorders worse.
Overeaters Anonymous has free support groups in OKC that help people recover from eating disorders. You can find a meeting at oaokc.org.
Having a trusted adult who supports healthy eating with you during meals might help with recovery.
Food Variety
Eating a variety of foods rather than “forbidding” foods or only eating specific foods can help with anorexia.
Useless Strategies
Laxatives and vomiting don’t get rid of lots of the calories from food and make health much worse over time.
Not Overexercising
Calorie counting and fitness tracking technology can make eating disorders worse, so throwing away or giving away these things can be helpful.
Heavy exercising in people with anorexia nervosa increases risk of medical problems, leads to longer hospitalizations, less effective treatment results, and an increased chance of relapse.
