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Food addicts & binge-eaters : do you recognize yourself in this? Survey results.
A few days ago, I published a small survey for food addicts and binge-eaters, composed of yes or no questions about their behavior in everyday life. The questions were exclusively about their personal feelings and interactions with other people, there was nothing about diet, health or eating disorders. 35 people have answered so far (thank you for taking time for it, it is really helpful!!!). I am not certain that exclusively food addicts took the survey, but it doesn’t matter that much, because we can still see tendancies. Why did I ask these specific questions to food addicts? These days, a majority of eating disorder recovery strategies are still based on…
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Even food addicts deserve self-love
When I was actively bulimic (obsessed with nothing but food, eating all day long), and people would tell me that I was too harsh with myself, it made absolutely no sense to me. «Why on earth would I be self-caring and kind to myself, when I am unable to achieve anything at all, when I can’t spend a single day without binge-eating, when I am so fat, ugly, silly, ridiculously awkward?» ✨✨✨✨✨ What a violence. How can one possibly feel okay while repeating such terrible words to oneself all day long ? This is just a recipe for despair. For years, I have been thinking that self-love equaled complacency. I thought…
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How to handle a relationship with a food addict?
Dear readers, please let me begin with this little preamble 🙂 As some of you might know, I am not a native English-speaker. Even though I learnt my lessons very seriously at school, my English can sometimes be approximative !(also, I am French and we don’t have the reputation of being the best language learners, do we? ^^). I would be super grateful if you, English experts or native-English speakers, had any remarks/suggestions to share about this article. If you feel too shy to comment, you can send me an email at masha@bouledevie@gmail.com. Infinite thanks! Enjoy your reading ❤️ Masha How to handle a relationship with a food addict? How to…
