January - like the month or loathe it we all must endure it. This is a period of reflection and to focus on your life.
This is a hard piece for me to write but one I feel I need to put out there, 2015 is the year I overcome my food problems...for good. I am opening up to you to hopefully help others who suffer.
My unhealthy relationship with food began in school when, as typical teenagers, are bombarded with body images and strive for perfection.
I discovered I had found a unique way of dieting, I could simply put whatever I wanted into my mouth and later that day bring it up again. Excellent, the enjoyment of the taste but not of the calories, if you can stand throwing up everyday. I became 8 stone and with it I lost my periods.
The constant food battle continues to taunt me even now, a woman in her thirties.
2014 was a busy year for me, I had returned to work full time after the birth of my little boy and I decided to start teaching yoga again. Juggling the classes, work and being a mother I let my own health subside.
I spent the whole 12 months on a hamster wheel of binging and starving and you know what the outcome was? Absolutely nothing, at the end of the year I weighed the same as I did at the start! Of course I fluctuated losing a few stone in-between but gained it again because I didn't address the real problem.
A whole 12 months invasion into my life of; eating, not eating, shakes, detox teas not to mention all the literature I consume telling me what’s bad this week and what’s the latest super food I need in my life.
What a lot of time wasted for the outcome to not have changed.
But in every negative there is a positive, and mine is the lesson learned.
This will be the year I get an action plan together and embrace my health and rejoice that I still have time to heal myself.
As a teacher of yoga it is somewhat hypocritical of me to let my individual practice slide. 2015 is the year I once again find time to meditate, be in the present moment and combat my unhealthy relationship with food.
As of this month I am clean eating. I am eating no processed foods, no alcohol and plenty of green tea.
Because it’s not about the New Year diet or the New Year exercise regime it is about being kind to yourself, kind to your body and kind to others. This is what I shall be practicing.
This is the year I become myself again and I start by reaching out and finally getting the help I need and deserve.
Namaste.
For those struggling with eating disorders also please visit http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/eating-disorders/pages/introduction.aspx
This is a hard piece for me to write but one I feel I need to put out there, 2015 is the year I overcome my food problems...for good. I am opening up to you to hopefully help others who suffer.
My unhealthy relationship with food began in school when, as typical teenagers, are bombarded with body images and strive for perfection.
I discovered I had found a unique way of dieting, I could simply put whatever I wanted into my mouth and later that day bring it up again. Excellent, the enjoyment of the taste but not of the calories, if you can stand throwing up everyday. I became 8 stone and with it I lost my periods.
The constant food battle continues to taunt me even now, a woman in her thirties.
2014 was a busy year for me, I had returned to work full time after the birth of my little boy and I decided to start teaching yoga again. Juggling the classes, work and being a mother I let my own health subside.
I spent the whole 12 months on a hamster wheel of binging and starving and you know what the outcome was? Absolutely nothing, at the end of the year I weighed the same as I did at the start! Of course I fluctuated losing a few stone in-between but gained it again because I didn't address the real problem.
A whole 12 months invasion into my life of; eating, not eating, shakes, detox teas not to mention all the literature I consume telling me what’s bad this week and what’s the latest super food I need in my life.
What a lot of time wasted for the outcome to not have changed.
But in every negative there is a positive, and mine is the lesson learned.
This will be the year I get an action plan together and embrace my health and rejoice that I still have time to heal myself.
As a teacher of yoga it is somewhat hypocritical of me to let my individual practice slide. 2015 is the year I once again find time to meditate, be in the present moment and combat my unhealthy relationship with food.
As of this month I am clean eating. I am eating no processed foods, no alcohol and plenty of green tea.
Because it’s not about the New Year diet or the New Year exercise regime it is about being kind to yourself, kind to your body and kind to others. This is what I shall be practicing.
This is the year I become myself again and I start by reaching out and finally getting the help I need and deserve.
Namaste.
For those struggling with eating disorders also please visit http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/eating-disorders/pages/introduction.aspx