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,

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