Recovery Hype Girl

Hey friends!  🌟 If you've ever felt trapped by thoughts about food, weight, or your body, this is for you. Today we're diving into the sneaky ways eating disorders try to mess with your mind. Let's expose them together! 1. Ever-Changing Targets 🎯 You know how video game bosses get harder every time? Eating disorders are like that. They might promise you'll feel better if you hit a certain weight or skip that dessert, but once you get there, they change the rules. It's a never-ending game of chasing a "perfect" that doesn't exist. 2. The Numbers Obsession 🔢 Ever caught yourself stressing over calories, macros, or some other food number? Eating disorders LOVE this. They might even make you believe you've eaten way more than you actually have. It's like your brain playing tricks on you. 3. The "Ideal" Body Myth 💭 Eating disorders might whisper that you need to look a certain way to be liked or popular. Reality check: Bodies change. I

Navigating the Intricate Web of All the things Eating Disorders 🕸️ Eating disorders are not just mental illnesses; they're these intricate tapestries, interwoven with these intense threads of emotion, self-perception, relationships, aspirations, and even our hobbies.  They don't just touch one part of a person's life; they envelope it, consuming it whole, casting shadows over mental and physical well-being, friendships, personal values, and passions. 🌪️ Understanding the multi-layered nature of eating disorders means realizing that their treatment cannot be one-dimensional. Recovery is a journey, one that must be as comprehensive as the disorders themselves. 🧭 But healing isn't only about individual transformation. To truly combat the roots of these disorders, we need collective action. Broad societal strategies can amplify the ripple effect, turning individual recovery into waves of change in communities. 🌊 Remember, tackling eating disorders means understanding th

Let's all boycott the BMI!? Say what?! BMI is it really the golden standard for health assessment? Let's break it down. 🧐 At any point in your life have you had to come face to face with society's definition of health? I am talking about the superficial number that your gravitational pull to the earth gets measured by. AKA your body mass index (BMI).  Maybe you found it out through an uneducated doctor who happened to mention it to you, or maybe you even sought it out using an online calculator, or perhaps a treatment center used it to track your "progress".  Maybe, pre-DSM-5 it was used as a way to diagnose your eating disorder. Or not diagnose you. (OOF do we have a long way to go as a society) But aside from all the BS about the BMI,  is there even a scientific backing for this formula that is so commonly used in healthcare as a measure of health? I did some research on the subject and decided to share my results with all of you! Goals: hopefully by seeing i