Highland Eating Disorder Support

Please consult your GP if you are concerned about any of the following, and/or get in touch for a chat as to the best course of action for you. 

Disordered eating is a disturbed, unhealthy eating pattern underpinned by a number of varying factors: Irregular eating, inflexibility around food and eating which is often accompanied by set rules and high levels of rigidity. An all-consuming dieting mindset, which could include restricting, skipping meals, obsessive calorie counting and avoiding certain food groups. This might also see someone taking laxatives, diet pills or diuretics, and over-exercising. There is often a heightened unhealthy focus and attitude on weight, shape and appearance. When these and other problems co-exist, the slope to development of a diagnosable eating disorder is a slippery slope away.

Also, obsession with ‘clean/healthy eating’ – otherwise informally known as ‘Orthorexia’, is where an individual might avoid certain foods or whole groups of foods that are believed to be unhealthy. Examples could be cutting out fats or carbohydrates and perhaps a reliance on supplements, protein powders and faddy foods.

Additionally someone with Orthorexia may demonstrate other obsessive behaviours such as over or extreme exercising.