Eating and Body Image Concerns
Have you found yourself obsessing over how many calories you eat in a day? Or isolating from social engagements for fear of eating too much?
Is your 10 year old commenting about how “fat” they are, or you notice that they have been missing at mealtimes, or complaining that they had a big lunch so aren’t hungry at dinner?
Do you spend a lot of time in front of the mirror checking your body, pinching parts of your body, or criticizing yourself because of how you look? Do you ever exercise to the point of exhaustion, or use exercise as a form of punishment?
These might be passing concerns but they are also signs of what we can see with budding eating disorders, so it could be useful to explore in a conversation with one of our team.
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The sooner we can assess and nip things in the bud, so to speak, the better. When our kids were tiny, we called the pediatrician at the slightest something “different” and usually it was nothing—but we just needed to make sure. As our kids get older, we become more confident that we know our kids and how they are doing, but as they get to the tween years and beyond, we often are told that something is a “phase” and sometimes, this is true! Sometimes these phases, if left to continue, can become more fixed issues that can pave a rough trail and are best checked out quickly. That’s where we can come in to help:
Concerns about food? Learn more.
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Concerns about body image? Learn more.