Normal Eating, Positive Body Image and Self Esteem

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Normal Eating, Positive Body Image and Self
Esteem
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Outline

• What is healthy eating?
• What is disordered eating?
• Positive body image
• Healthy self esteem
• Media
• Where to go for more information

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Healthy Eating

• Your body decides
• What
• How much, and
• How often of eating

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Normal Eating

• Normal eating is the
• When
• Where
• Why of eating
• Flexible and enjoyable
• Making your own choices
• Include your favourite foods

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Normal Eating Is

• Going to the table hungry and eating until you
  are satisfied
• Eating foods you like and
• Not stopping because you think you should
• Choosing nutritious and enjoyable foods

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Normal Eating Is

• Sometimes its okay to eat just because
• Eating three meals a day four or five or it
  can be choosing to munch along the way
• Leaving some cookies on the plate for tomorrow or
  eating more now because they taste so wonderful!

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Normal Eating Is

• Feeling overfull sometimes
• Under-eating sometimes
• Trusting your body
• Takes time and is enjoyable
• Flexible depends on
• your hunger
• your schedule
• your feelings

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Supporting Normal Eating

• We are born to eat instinctively
• If you change your eating habits, be gentle
• Drop the guilt
• Eat slowly
• Eat with others
• Enjoy meal time!

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• Do You Have a Healthy Relationship with Food?

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Disordered Eating

• Unhealthy attitudes about your body
• Weight concerns
• Poor body image
• Unhealthy thoughts and behaviours
• skipping meals
• chronic or crash dieting
• excessive eating (binge eating or compulsive
  eating)

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Disordered Eating - Statistics

• Females
• One in four teen girls have disordered eating
• 53 of teen females with a healthy BMI try to
  lose weight
• Males
• 25 of teen males are dieting
• 20 want to loose weight

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Eating Disorders

• Most eating disorders start with a diet

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Bulimia Nervosa

• Binge eating eating a large amount of food in a
  short amount of time
• Then, getting rid of the calories by
• Purging (vomiting) and/or
• Laxatives, diuretics
• Excessive exercise

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Anorexia Nervosa

• Obsessive fear of gaining weight
• Refusal to eat enough to maintain weight
• Often with a distorted self image
• 5-8 mortality rate

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Other Eating Disorders

• Examples
• A woman restricts her eating and is very
  underweight but still gets her menstrual period
• She has an eating disorder, but it isnt anorexia
• Binge-eating disorder

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What Can We Do About Disordered Eating?

• Practice normal eating

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Books, Websites, Resources Links

• My Food Guide
• http//www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/in
  dex-eng.php
• BC Dairy Foundation
• www.bcdairyfoundation.ca
• Michelle May, Founder of Am I Hungry?
• www.amihungry.com

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More Resources

• HealthLinkBC Factsheet Supporting Someone with a
  Eating Disorder
• http//www.healthlinkbc.ca/kb/content/special/hw48
  146.html
• Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
• http//keltyeatingdisorders.ca/
• Looking Glass - Provincial Online Support
• www.looking_glass.meetsupport.com/register/
•  Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous 12 Step Program
• www.anorexicsandbulimicsaba.org
•  Overeaters Anonymous 12 Step Program www.oa.org

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Eating Disorders ProgramEating Disorder Program

• Talk with Dietitians and Counselors
• Anyone can call
• Group education and support
• Phone [phone]

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Fostering Healthy Body Image

• What does body image mean to you?

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Body Image

• the mental picture you have of your body and the
  feelings you have about that picture
• Healthy body image
• Feeling "at home" in your body
• Knowing how to take care of yourself
• Feeling energetic
• Able to do the things you want
• Not trying to have the "perfect" body
• Feeling good about yourself

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

• People who are obsessed with what they believe
  are defects in the way they look
• They spend hours every day fixing, checking,
  hiding appearance flaws
• Interferes with happiness
• Needs professional help

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Fostering Healthy Body Image

• Be aware of what you are saying to yourself and
  to others
• Hurtful comments can last a lifetime
• Focus on health - not weight, not size

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Fostering Healthy Body Image

• Respect yourself
• Everyone grows and develops at a different rate
• Healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes
• Puberty is a time of rapid growth and development
• Your body is just one part of you
• Recognize your strengths and
  celebrate your talents

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What do you say?

• A friend asks you how to lose weight and get a
  flat tummy again.
• What do you do?

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Enjoying the Occasional Treat

• You brought cookies for the class and one student
  says to the another, you shouldnt eat that it
  will make you fat.
• What do you do?
• What do you say?

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Fostering Healthy Self Esteem

• What does self esteem mean to you?

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What is Self Esteem?

• A persons overall evaluation of his/her own
  worth
• Includes beliefs
• I am competent, I am worthy
• Includes emotions, including
• Triumph
• Despair
• Pride
• Shame

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What Influences Self Esteem?

• For many people, body image can be closely linked
  to self-esteem.
• As kids develop into teens, they care more about
  how others see them
• Early experiences
• Outside influences
• Puberty

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Activity

• What is needed for a person to build a healthy
  self esteem and positive body image.
• Consider
• Individual and peer factors
• Family and cultural factors
• Community and societal factors
• What role do we play as
• Friends
• Parents
• Teachers
• Community members

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Resiliency

• People who believe in themselves
• are better able to recognize mistakes, learn from
  them and bounce back from disappointment
• Skills can be fostered through
• Caring relationships

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Media Literacy

• What does media literacy mean to you?

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Media Literacy is

• Being able to analyze, evaluate, and create
  messages in different forms of media modes
• Ask
• What do you watch?
• What do you hear?
• What do you read?

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We are Bombarded with Messages
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Media Literacy - Education

• Education addresses the negatives of mass media
  and popular
• Media violence
• Gender and racial stereotypes
• Sexualization of youth
• Loss of privacy
• Cyber bullying
• Internet predators

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Media Literacy - Education

• Goal
• To help you make good choices in your use of media

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Media Literacy Tools and Resources

• Fat Talk (3 min. 19 sec.)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4CuMJybvAh8
• Dove Evolution (1 min. 15 sec.)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhibyAJOSW8U
• Dove Beauty Pressure (1 min. 15 sec.)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEi6JvK0W60Ifeature
  related

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Final Thoughts

• The purpose of eatingis to fuel living.
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•  I have more time and energywhen Im not
  consumed byfood, eating, and weight.
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• Where will I invest my energy today?