Thanksgiving Eating Disorder Analysis

In this article, the idea of eating disorder and how to deal with eating disorder on holidays such as the upcoming Thanksgiving are introduced. The survey estimating that 20 million women and 10 million men will have an eating disorder at some time in their lives surprised me for its huge number. Notably, holiday time is when disordered thinking and behavior occur in a higher frequency. Thus the article intends to introduce measures which can help to correct eating disorder: having someone support you and share your thoughts with; having a structured and balanced meal plan; taking care of yourself and get to relax when feel emotional overwhelming. The final suggestion for getting rid of eating disorder during Thanksgiving is to eat when hungry,

stop when full and try to make your conversations with family about the things that really matter. Eating one more pie doesn’t matter, what matters is spending happy hours with those who we treasure in a healthier way.
As we have discussed in class, eating disorder is a bad habit that both gives us abnormal weight and harms our health. One solution to stop eating disorder is giving ourselves some punishment after each eating disorder. For example, eat only green vegetable for several days after eating disorder . As a result, our brain will memorize these punishments, and next time, if eating disorder is going to occur, our brain will recall the pains brought by punishment and stop such behaviors.
I have a resonance with this article, because I really care about my weight and my body shape.

In the days that I decided to lose weight, I used mobile app to record the calorie of every dish I had and pushed my self to get rid of any fried food, sweet food or snacks. However, my insistence didn’t last long. After one week, I could not help myself eating lots of sweet food. Once I ate five ice creams after a big meal, and another midnight I ate lots of chocolates under the pressure of schoolwork. However, I have never taken it too serious or considered eating disorder as mental illness until I read this article. I sadly observed that some signs implying that one experiences eating disorder also happened to me. For example, I put restriction on whole category of food, after dieting I stayed in my room and ate snacks all day long, and I extremely valued the relationship with weight, food, calories or exercise. Luckily, after the class talking about bad habit, I decided to give up irregular eating habits, stopped keeping a diet, and began to eat just right to satisfy my stomach. Although my planned goal of losing weight cannot be achieved, it is better to have a healthy eating habit than overeat. Now my brain no longer make reprisals since I don’t restrict myself on some food too

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According to psychological studies, eating disorders are real, treatable medical illnesses in which certain maladaptive patterns of eating take on a life of their own. However, unlike neurological disorder, which generally can be pinpointed to a specific area on the brain, eating disorder likely involves abnormal activity distributed across neural systems. There are several companied psychiatric illnesses such as depression, substance abuse or anxiety disorders. It also impacts on physical health by causing serious heart conditions, kidney failure that can lead to death. One sad thing is eating disorder can have future development during adolescence if starts since early childhood, and many adolescents are able to hide these behaviors from their family for months or years. Therefore, our recognition of realizing eating disorder is important for getting treatment and cure in time.
In conclusion, the issues matters with eating disorder is people may not or are not willing to admit it as illness and go for treatment. Thus the trusted ones and family members can play a big role to support the person with care and rehabilitation to help them out.