What is Body Image?
What are Eating Disorders?
What Causes Eating Disorders?
Tips for Critical Viewing of the Media
Strategies for Dealing with Eating Disorders
Tips for a Healthy Body Image
M.A.I.D. Technique for Engaging Residents
Resources
Monarch Cove Nutritional Philosophy- Kelly Walker, RD, LD
Body Image & Eating Disorders
1. Body Image
ROBERT C. P. STEINER
GRADUATE HONORS HOUSE DIRECTOR
2. Agenda
What is Body Image?
What are Eating Disorders?
What Causes Eating Disorders?
Tips for Critical Viewing of the Media
Strategies for Dealing with Eating Disorders
Tips for a Healthy Body Image
M.A.I.D. Technique for Engaging Residents
Resources
3. What is Body Image?
Body Image is Made up of Two Components
1. How You Perceive Your Body
2. What You Feel About That Perception
4. Factors That Contribute to Body Image
Family
Children’s Toys & Fairy Tales (Disney)
Friends
The Media
5. Moving Towards a Positive Body Image
Interesting Facts:
25 years ago, the avg. female model weighed 8% less than the
avg. American Woman
Today, the avg. model weighs 23% less than the avg. American
Woman
For men, the avg Playgirl centerfold has shed about 12 lbs of
fat while putting on over 12 lbs of muscle over the past 25 years
What is your Healthy Weight?
Link
6. What are Eating Disorders?
The two most common eating disorders are
Anorexia Nervosa (Self-Stavation)
Bulimia (Binging & Purging)
Some consider compulsive overeating a disorder
7. Signs of Eating Disorders
Spend a lot of Time Thinking About Eating, Food,
Weight, & Body Image
Often Feel “fat” When their Weight is Normal or Below
normal
Feel Uncomfortable After Eating a Normal Sized Meal
Often Feel Anxious When Eating Around Others
Make Judgments About Themselves and How They
Control What They Eat
Believe That Others Are Judging Them By What They
Eat
8. What Causes Eating Disorders?
Factors Contributing to Eating Disorders
Cultural & Psychological Issues
Personality Traits
Learned Behaviors
Sometimes Biochemical Imbalances
People with eating disorders are often subject to Depression,
Anxiety, and Low Self-Esteem.
12. Tips for Critical Viewing of the Media
Media Messages About Body shape and Size Will Only Affect
the Way We Feel About Ourselves If We Let Them
To Be a Critical Viewer of Media
All Media Images are Constructions, Not Reality
Advertisement Have Been Carefully Constructed With an
Intent to Send a Very Specific Message
Advertisements are Created for One Thing: To Convince
You To Buy Something
They Create their Message Based on What they Think You
Want to See
We Can Choose A Filter that Protects Our Self-Esteem
13. Strategies for Dealing with Eating Disorders
If You Starve (Restrict) or Fast
Learn what is a healthy weight for you. Then find out how many servings of
the different food groups are needed to achieve that weight. Make a daily
meal and snack plan and stick to it whether hungry or not.
If You Binge & Purge:
Work toward ending the cycle of binging and purging, feeling guilty,
dieting, getting too hungry, and Binging again. Increase the amount of
calories in your diet and decrease the amount of calories in your binges
If you Overeat/Binge:
Buy limited amounts of food/ Don’t shop when Hungry/ Avoid Impulse
Buying/ Stabilize your eating habits/ Eat Slowly/ Keep healthy snacks
handy/ Stop eating as soon as you feel full
14. Tips for all Types of Eating Disorders
Learn About Good Nutrition
Get a copy of ACHA’s Brochure Eating 101: The Basics of
Good Nutrition
Finding Your Triggers
Find the triggers that spur your urges to binge, starve, or
otherwise abuse food. You can reprogram your thoughts and
plan other activities
Accepting That Setbacks are Part of Progress
Look at them as opportunities to learn more about your eating
habits. Feeling guilty only sets the stage for longer relapses
15. Tips for a Healthy Body Image
1. Attend to your bodily cues for Hunger & Satiation
2. Enjoy all foods.
3. Use the food pyramid as a guide
4. Eat for enjoyment
5. Try New Foods
6. Keep Nutrient-dense food readily available
7. Avoid the Good/Bad food trap
8. Focus less on Body Weight & Shape and more on
inner self
16. Engaging a Resident
M.A.I .D.
M = Misery, Sadness, Change in Mood, etc…
A = Alienation, Isolation, Not Spending Time with
Friends
I = Inefficiency, Not Being Effective In Class,
Athletics, & Other Activities
D = Disturbance, Focus on Eating/Body Image is
Getting in the Way of Other Parts of Life
17. Resources
University Counseling Clinic (UCC)
C.E.T.C. Counselor Education Training Center
Overeaters Anonymous
National Eating Disorders Organization