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Update: People who get triggered because of my review let me try and break this down as simply as possible. There is healthy food. There is unhealthy food. That is a fact no matter how you try and dress it up. Peanuts may be considered healthy, but for others it is not.
Forcing people, who already have an unhealthy relationship with food, to eat junk food is wrong. Eating poison isn't healthy. I don't care who says you should do it; wether it's a dietician, nutritionist, or a doctor (phft). You're not going to change my mind about my review. You don't know my education on food/health/GMO's/additives, or even psychology, etc. If you disagree with my review, then write your own review, but please do not attack me personally. Your assumptions are just that.
To force people with eating disorders; with dismorphia, to eat junk food, is psychologically cruel and most likely physiologically harmful. Here's a bowl of sugar, eat up. What's the harm? These patients need to learn proper nutritious ways of eating. Forcing them to eat junk food is not learning to have a healthy relationship with food. And why are people triggered by my belly fat comment? That is very interesting. I'd like to tap into that psychology.
There is a healthy way of losing weight and there is a healthy way of gaining weight. Renfrew is NOT the healthy way.
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I don't agree with Renfrew's treatment. Wth would you force someone with an eating disorder to eat junk food? These girls and women need to learn proper ways of eating. And I understand why they don't allow exercise, but because they aren't allowed they get the fat belly and that isn't
Healthy. Eveything in moderation and it isn't being taught at renfrew. The stories of the girls are similar in many ways. I hope they all succeed in bettering their lives.
Let me just add, since there have been a few people who disagree with my opinion on this book. I do not, nor have I ever, had an eating disorder. However, I do believe that food can be medicine, just as I believe food can be poison. Yes! I believe there are good and bad foods. There's nothing you can say to me to change my opinion on this. And how it references to the Renfew's treatment of people who have eating disorders and a bad relationship with food, shouldn't be fed garbage to heal them; emotionally, psychologically, or physically. I stand by that one hundred percent.
Forcing people, who already have an unhealthy relationship with food, to eat junk food is wrong. Eating poison isn't healthy. I don't care who says you should do it; wether it's a dietician, nutritionist, or a doctor (phft). You're not going to change my mind about my review. You don't know my education on food/health/GMO's/additives, or even psychology, etc. If you disagree with my review, then write your own review, but please do not attack me personally. Your assumptions are just that.
To force people with eating disorders; with dismorphia, to eat junk food, is psychologically cruel and most likely physiologically harmful. Here's a bowl of sugar, eat up. What's the harm? These patients need to learn proper nutritious ways of eating. Forcing them to eat junk food is not learning to have a healthy relationship with food. And why are people triggered by my belly fat comment? That is very interesting. I'd like to tap into that psychology.
There is a healthy way of losing weight and there is a healthy way of gaining weight. Renfrew is NOT the healthy way.
_____________________
I don't agree with Renfrew's treatment. Wth would you force someone with an eating disorder to eat junk food? These girls and women need to learn proper ways of eating. And I understand why they don't allow exercise, but because they aren't allowed they get the fat belly and that isn't
Healthy. Eveything in moderation and it isn't being taught at renfrew. The stories of the girls are similar in many ways. I hope they all succeed in bettering their lives.
Let me just add, since there have been a few people who disagree with my opinion on this book. I do not, nor have I ever, had an eating disorder. However, I do believe that food can be medicine, just as I believe food can be poison. Yes! I believe there are good and bad foods. There's nothing you can say to me to change my opinion on this. And how it references to the Renfew's treatment of people who have eating disorders and a bad relationship with food, shouldn't be fed garbage to heal them; emotionally, psychologically, or physically. I stand by that one hundred percent.
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This is pretty standard for eating disorder centers. When I was in a partial hospitalization program � I am a recovering anorexic � we were required to choose from such foods as pies, ice cream, cookies, etc. It to help those with eating disorders break their fear of foods and to realize there are no bad foods; everything in moderation.Exercise restriction is pretty standard, too. Many people with eating disorders, not just anorexics, have unhealthy exercise patterns. Also, for those of low weight, weight stabilization is key to treatment.
I agree with Angela’s review. The point of everything done while in treatment is to create a healthy relationship with all foods, exercise and emotions. Exercise is normally restricted because some of the patients are at a physically dangerous weight and it would not be safe for them to exercise. That is not always the case of course- but it is not one of the first things to be approached and renewed in treatment. Normalizing exercise usually comes later in treatment for many- whether it is in outpatient, personal therapy, etc.
The thinking that a “fat belly=unhealthy� is what contributes to disordered thinking, eating and exercising. The goal of treatment (which is only the beginning of the long journey of recovery) is to take a step back, be safe, and approach emotions and your relationship with food in a safe place.
Angela wrote: "This is pretty standard for eating disorder centers. When I was in a partial hospitalization program � I am a recovering anorexic � we were required to choose from such foods as pies, ice cream, co..."For someone that doesn't have any eating disorders, what defines "bad" food to someone is going to be different for me. If a food is not nutritious it is bad. It doesn't make sense to me, to offer garbage/junk food to people with eating disorders.
I don’t know what your petal am experiences with eating disorders or eating disorder treatment is. But it sure does sound like you have an unhealthy relationship with food. The people in this book were prescribed meal plans by registered dietitians- people with master’s degrees in dietetics. Many of them gained weight because weight restoration was a part of their treatment- they are maintaining a weight that is too low for their body- and you’re coming in here to criticize the treatment model and the belly fat on these patients. You realize that’s where a lot of weight goes during, referring, right?!
Also, people come in different shapes and sizes. And eating disorders and chronic dieting can cause a lot of other health and metabolic problems that can lead many- but certainly not all people- to gain weight. Many people with a history of eating disorders end up weighing more than they otherwise would if they hadn’t developed in ED- but sadly, this book almost exclusively features people became underweight as a result of their eating disorder. This does not happen to everyone with an ED.
If you want to avoid certain foods, fine. That’s on you. I don’t know your story. But people in eating disorder treatment are working on overcoming distorted black and white thinking, and “good� and “bad� foods are a part of those cognitive distortions.
Again, I can’t believe you care more about these people developing belly fat rather than their actual well being
Amy, you're entitled to have your opinion. it's wrong, but you're entitled. Just because a dietician or nutritionist or even a DOCTOR created this meal program doesn't mean it's correct. They are people and they do not know everything. Nor do they know what is correct for every single person. yes, people come in all shapes and sizes, that's irrelevant to good food, bad food for people with eating disorders. If you think it's okay to consume soda, then drink up. However, drinking a little bit of poison doesn't make it okay. Eating peanuts may be fine for some people, but not others. Same thing for junk food.
Their actual well being is not about belly fat, it's about not eating foods that are unhealthy.
It's ok to have to face a fear of eating junk food to have the occasional candy bar or to bake a cake with friends and enjoy it, but to be force to eat junk food on a regular basis... hmm...
And I agree about the exercising also.
Some of those girls were exercising to the extreme, they need to help them with learning what a healthy balance is, and to see it as a way to relax and enjoy being healthy, not as a punishment or a ritual.