Intro-

• Body Image- Your personal evaluation of self and perception of appearance to others

  • Height, weight, body curves, size of features, etc

  • Includes how you feel others believe you look

    • Connected to self esteem and self worth
    • What’s a healthy body image?

  • You are genuinely comfortable with and feel good about the way you look

  • It has more to do with mental health than physical much of the time

  • We are all very aware of professional celebrity and even social media photos being unrealistic

  • Photoshop, dehydrated,exercises prior, specific lighting and background color, body position and flexing, etc

  • My body image

  • History of anorexia

    • Highschool wrestling and fear of becoming obese

      • Was easy to hide for me but I was very aware

      • Nobody expected it from a male, and controlling weight for sport was a simple cover up with competing year round. - “Got over it” from lifting weights and worrying about the weight of the dumbbells and not my body - Aspects of mindset doesn’t always go away

      • Swore to have abs 15-50yrs, and plan on more

        • Dysmorphic

    • I feel like it’s controlled and has helped me achieve things I wouldn’t have otherwise.

    • Debatably healthy

Disorders

• Dysmorphia- emotional believe about 1 or more perceived defects or flaws with their body and appearance

  • Typically more fit individuals and athletes

    • “My abs are popping enough”; “My butt and legs are too big/small”; “my left shoulder is so flabby compared to my right”; etc

      • Stops people from fully enjoying or participating in social settings

    • Does not wear revealing bathing suits, refuses to take shirt off at beach, responds negatively when someone comments or even compliments your body aspect

      • This is me personally now
    • Orthorexia nervosa-

  • Involves a strong obsession with healthy eating

    • Revolves more around food quality and not quantity
    • Rarely focused on losing weight
    • More on being as healthy as possible and may appear to be fanatical to others
    • Associated with and could be a gateway into hypochondrial disorders
    • Anaorexia

  • Disordered definition- an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat

  • Medical definition- lack or loss of appetite

  • Approximately 1% of the USA population has anorexia in their lifetime

    • 1 in 5 die from it or complications from it
    • About half have comorbid anxiety or social disorders

    • 60% “fully recover

      • Live a life free of any eating disorder thoughts or behavior - 20% makes a partial recovery

      • Stays focused on food and weight but lives a normal life

      • Bulimia Nervosa

  • An emotional disorder characterised by extreme eating and then regret and purging thereafter.

    • Goes to the bathroom right after eating every meal

Sports and relation to eating disorders and body image?

• More athletes have eating disorders than non-athletes

• 49.2% of College D1 and 40% of DIII athletes are considered to have an eating disorder.

  • Extreme pressure from collegiate and professional coaches

    • More stress of body image comes from teammates

      • Constantly trying to be better than their peers
      • Teasing each other for how they look and eat while being an athlete
      • Those more susceptible to body image issues are well documented at avoiding sports due to uniforms

  • Some are functional and have an advantage like swimmers

  • Others like volleyball do not and the difference between male and female uniforms are obvious and likely due to in part of sexual exploitation

    • Or cross country males with shorts. This is functional to a degree, but has stopped many from competing in the sport
    • 33% of all female athletes have a body image or eating disorder

  • 33% of males in weight and aesthetic sports

    • Wrestling, Bodybuilding, Jockey
    • Football 40% collegiate and professional athletes binge and purge like bulimia
    • Perception of men vs women athletes

  • Average and smaller than average men want to be larger with various goals of tone

  • Women of all sizes want to be smaller

Thin and Fat shaming-

• Defined- Prejudice to the thin/obese

• Thin shaming

  • Women who are naturally thin and are assumed to be anorexic

    • “”Go eat a burger”
    • “Only dogs want bones”

Fat Shaming

• • More well known long standing
  • Big in children
  • Increasing over social media of all ages

Parent’s Roles for Children

• Children obviously watch and listen to us all the time and affects them consciously and subconsciously.

• They will be swayed by your habits and ideals

  • Healthy habits you do, they are more likely to do as well

    • Eating well, exercising, confidence, etc
    • Avoid “Fat Talk”

  • When you talk negatively about your own body in front of others

    • Many parents to this and it affects their kids
    • “I look fat in these jeans”, “I look disgusting”, “Gosh I’m heavy”
      • Children will be more likely to have these talks and the negative mental loop occurs
    • Talk positive instead, it’s better for everybody anyway

How to deal with these first person and 3rd person?

• Have goals that aren’t based on your negative view point

  • For example, I focused on weight of dumbbells instead of the scale
  • Focus on your sport’s drills and skills to be faster and more precise
  • Know that a lot of these features may stay with you, but embrace it and turn it into a strength
  • Know that in general, nobody else cares what you look like
  • Be the best version of you and know that the way you look, really isn’t part of that

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