1. Get your hope back about recovery being possible by watching some of the movies on this website. Just knowing that there is an answer can help people to relax and calm their stress response and start getting improvements.
2. Start actively reducing your stress response by doing things like meditation, breathing exercises, and activities that you find particularly relaxing.
3. Every time you catch yourself thinking about eating problem or your body, immediately make yourself think about something else instead. If you re-route your brain often enough, you can start creating changes to those faulty neural pathways.
4. For over-eaters, notice the various reasons (other than hunger) that you eat for and be creative in finding solutions to those emotions that work far better than eating (because you already know that eating never fixes depression, stresss, loneliness, anger…)
5. For under-eaters, remind yourself that, while you have tried to have control by blocking eating, the actual reality is that the behaviour now has control over you. Remind yourself about why you love your body and why it deserves for you to love it and feed it. Choose to see feeding your body as a way of gaining control over your life, instead of losing it.
If these very simple interventions fix your food and weight issues – FANTASTIC!
If they are not enough for you, that’s OK. We have a lot of far more comprehensive techniques and education available at The Switch that will allow you to make bigger transformations.
