Posted 3 years ago
Hi Annie, thank you for your reply. It was good to read that weight restoration had gone well through the summer but I am sorry to hear that your daughter is now in a binging cycle. As you will know individuals develop eating disorders in order to supress feelings of anxiety or stress, so maybe now her weight is restored it would be the time to offer a therapy that will help your daughter to deal with her feelings of anxiety, I wonder if you are receiving support for your daughter and whether it is possible to organise some therapy.
.I am using the item that the EDA dietician wrote for this platform accessible through the links at the top right hand of the page. I will summarise it, but you will find it in detail under diet and exercise.;
-it is possible to calm the binging cycle through diet
-start by looking at the cycle of binging, does your daughter restrict to make up for a binge? - this irregular eating leads to low blood sugar levels which will in turn trigger a binge.
-When an individual binges there is a higher level of insulin in the body, the level continues to be high for a number of hours after a binge, and so a cycle of binging can lead to a sustained high level of insulin - high levels of insulin can lead to low blood sugars which can lead to a physiological desire to binge.
The EDA dietician recommends that the best way to reduce binge eating is to establish a regular pattern of eating every 3 to 4 hours - aiming to base it around snacks which contain a combination of food groups.
I hope that this will be of some use to you, let me know how you get on