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Susan Ward
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Susan Ward is a registered psychotherapist in the San Diego area she has over 25 years of experience dealing with eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders. This episode is sponsored by body image 360.com any psychological issues having to do with eating.. You can e-mail your questions to body image 360@Gmail.com.
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Eating disorders in middle to late life.
Why are individuals becoming anorexic at a late age when they should know better?
Generally anorexia is a eating disorder that impacts girls in their teenage years but now we are seeing individuals later in life developing eating disorders specifically anorexia later in life.
The ideal woman is becoming thinner and thinner. If you look at the Miss America pageant from the 1950s the women were more voluptuous if you look at Marilyn Monroe she was not a stick figure of a woman she would have been considered more of a full figured woman. One of the biggest changes that occurred was when the model Twiggy (http://www.twiggylawson.co.uk/fashion.html) from the UK came out and some would describe her as emaciated looking. That image began to change the image of feminine beauty.
Eating disorders usually occurs over a loss:
The issues that you're dealing with early in life are completely different than the issues that you are experiencing in middle life or towards the end of your life. Some of the issues that you would be having our whether not you're going to be able to afford to retire, career orientated issues work related issues. True health issues, that impact or cause you to look at your mortality. Your children leaving home.
With the focus typically on obesity women that are experiencing these types of health challenges are usually under– diagnosed if not completely ignored.
NBC News:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3HI7D-RaWQ
Going from being a young woman to being a middle-aged mom and putting on some pounds causes some women to infantilize being in their youth and they find themselves obsessed with losing the weight so that they can look younger.
Kathryn Zerbe, MD
The (Critic)al Issue of Weight Bias http://www.oregonpsychoanalytic.org/info-display-member.asp?id=119
http://eatingdisorder.org/blog/2010/12/the-critical-issue-of-weight-bias/
“Most physicians are not asking the right questions to their patients about why they are losing weight”.
It is important to separate the true physical challenges of losing weight like cancer etc. and being able to understand if it's an emotional way of losing weight for examples using illegal substances weight loss pills, extreme dieting.
If you have a family member who is involved in anorexia you may want to go with them to the physician.
You want to get everybody on board to help the person with the eating disorder.
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Interview with Wendy Lu – UCSD Rady School of management
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How much does self-control have to do with dieting?
Self-control and your Diet.
Does your diet make you cranky?
http://www.disabled-world.com/fitness/diets/cranky.php
Could your diet make you angry at inappropriate times?
What you're about to read here may change the way you think about food. Yes, once you see the facts, you'll realize that most of the products on the grocery shelves don't fit your biology. Most of today's dietary products are not designed to keep your body young. The genes that regulate your biological age are highly sensitive to your diet as they’re triggered or inhibited by what you eat, how much you eat, and how often. The point is: You need to know how your diet affects your biological age. You need to know what food keeps you young and what food is making you old. How Your Diet Affects Your Biological Age It has been largely agreed that one of the most detrimental causes of aging is excessive calorie intake. Scientists speculate that humans have an overly strong drive to eat when food is readily available. And since people are surrounded by food they tend to consume excess calories dense food, which then cause them to gain weight, lose health, and age prematurely.
Given this, many believe that calorie restriction is the most effective strategy to get in shape and counteract aging. But the calorie restriction theory is only partly true. It can't always predict whether you'll gain weight or lose weight, neither can it pre dict whether you'll get In shape or get out of shape. You can be on a low calorie diet and fail to lose weight, and you can be on a high calorie diet and yet manage to slim down.
This episode originally aired on April 23, 2011 on San Diego station KPRZ.
Susan Ward is the creator of “weight matters” and it is a licensed psychotherapist, a weight coach and an expert in treating weight and eating disorders. Susan has been working with eating and weight disorder individuals for the past 25 years and has an office in La Jolla California.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) http://www.nih.gov/
25% of the states have one third of all adults that are obese: 10% of all medical cause are related to obesity. So there are 133 million people in the United States that are overweight.
The most recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 65 percent of U.S. adults — or about 129.6 million people — are either overweight or obese. In addition to decreasing quality of life and increasing the risk of premature death, obesity and overweight cost the Nation an estimated $117 billion in direct medical costs and indirect costs such as lost wages due to illness.
Eat three meals a day: breakfast lunch and dinner Have a "Personalize" success plan:
Recognize that thoughts generate feelings: take note of triggers.
What are the triggers that send you two eating compulsively?
We look at a set plan using healthy whole foods.
Recognize hunger, recognize fullness, the plan is flexible the plan can allow for holidays the plan can allow for events.
We are looking for Mal-adapted behaviors.
Focus on the whole person when you go to heal.
The system has to be more user-friendly.
Many people are very critical about their eating and very sensitive to failure in the focuses to be in a learning mode. We can all learn. How do I change my approach to food how do I change my approach to problem solving. We're looking at her feelings, we're looking at her thoughts, and we are analyzing the thoughts that come up automatically.
Quieting the little voice inside that is causing you to criticize yourself. Inside yourself you are a happy healthy person with all of the power to change.
It doesn't matter if you failed 100 times you do it 101 times
Incorporating your spirit into a eating program is essential.
You may have tried to lose weight many times and just failed but it is very important to tell yourself that you are a child of a loving God. I can learn from this I can love myself and I can change.
This is an encouraging way of thinking and you can begin to understand how so work forward. This enables you to access your power and your joy in life. Let's face it food was meant to be enjoyed.
How to get in touch with Susan Ward, LCSW:
Phone: (858) 450-3210
susan@mybodyimage360.com