Post by Admin on Jul 29, 2023 15:03:38 GMT
The Risks Of Pseudo-Recovery in a Society Obsessed With Diets
The effects of diet culture have normalised disordered eating habits and are inhibiting recoveries.
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Calorie counts on menus, prescribed exercise, advertising bans on high-fat foods — these are some of the measures being discussed for the UK’s obesity plan. There’s no denying that there’s a worldwide health crisis with obesity rates nearly tripling since 1975, but has our society become so obsessed with diet culture that it’s actually exacerbating health issues?
I remember my first eating disorder ‘recovery’ — how proud the people around me were that I was fighting on, how strong I thought I was being. But in reality, I hadn’t let go of my habits at all, food and diet still controlled me. I was just able to mask my unhealthy behaviours with societal norms.
I was in pseudo-recovery.
What is pseudo-recovery?
Pseudo-recovery from an eating disorder, whatever it may be, is that purgatorial stage between fully submitting to your eating disorder and complete recovery. It’s that point when you want to recover but you still haven’t quite let go.
The eating disorder habits are still there — whether you’re aware of them or not. You may consciously engage in some behaviours but a lot of the time it’s instinctive. That’s what makes pseudo-recovery so dangerous — chances are you don’t even know you’re experiencing it.
I really did believe that I was on the right track. I thought I was regaining my control but I wasn’t actually feeling any better, not deep down.
Accepting that the recovery I believed I was experiencing didn’t correlate with the results I was hoping for — to be happier, more relaxed, to have more energy — spurred me on to reassess what I was actually doing.
The effects of diet culture have normalised disordered eating habits and are inhibiting recoveries.
medium.com/invisible-illness/the-risks-of-pseudo-recovery-in-a-society-obsessed-with-diets-87255c52ca00
Calorie counts on menus, prescribed exercise, advertising bans on high-fat foods — these are some of the measures being discussed for the UK’s obesity plan. There’s no denying that there’s a worldwide health crisis with obesity rates nearly tripling since 1975, but has our society become so obsessed with diet culture that it’s actually exacerbating health issues?
I remember my first eating disorder ‘recovery’ — how proud the people around me were that I was fighting on, how strong I thought I was being. But in reality, I hadn’t let go of my habits at all, food and diet still controlled me. I was just able to mask my unhealthy behaviours with societal norms.
I was in pseudo-recovery.
What is pseudo-recovery?
Pseudo-recovery from an eating disorder, whatever it may be, is that purgatorial stage between fully submitting to your eating disorder and complete recovery. It’s that point when you want to recover but you still haven’t quite let go.
The eating disorder habits are still there — whether you’re aware of them or not. You may consciously engage in some behaviours but a lot of the time it’s instinctive. That’s what makes pseudo-recovery so dangerous — chances are you don’t even know you’re experiencing it.
I really did believe that I was on the right track. I thought I was regaining my control but I wasn’t actually feeling any better, not deep down.
Accepting that the recovery I believed I was experiencing didn’t correlate with the results I was hoping for — to be happier, more relaxed, to have more energy — spurred me on to reassess what I was actually doing.