https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/eating-and-body-image/m-p/511563#M42645 <P>Hi G12345,</P> <P>Thank you for your post and I'm sorry that you're feeling like an elephant! I hear you - eating and body image issues are so so hard.</P> <P>One thing to not fear food that you might be interested in is a concept called 'Intuitive Eating' - the idea is that when we need to go to the toilet we go because it's our bodies needs and it's no big deal, but for some reason when we get hungry we feel so much emotion around it - even though it's food and our body needs it too. If you are interested in it you could look at seeing a dietician or I'm happy to share books etc</P> <P>If you're ever having a really tough day of course we are here for you but you can also have an online web-chat with Butterfly (The Butterfly Foundation) - although they do a lot of eating disorder work they are super kind and lovely for anything body image related www.butterfly.org.au </P> <P>I hope this helps. You're not alone here.</P> <P>rt</P> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:49:52 GMT romantic_thi3f 2020-09-14T23:49:52Z https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/eating-and-body-image/m-p/511562#M42644 I’m a lean girl but I saw my weight today I wanted to cry i feel like a large elephant. Can someone help me not fear food Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:58:46 GMT https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/eating-and-body-image/m-p/511562#M42644 G12345 2020-09-14T14:58:46Z https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/eating-and-body-image/m-p/511563#M42645 <P>Hi G12345,</P> <P>Thank you for your post and I'm sorry that you're feeling like an elephant! I hear you - eating and body image issues are so so hard.</P> <P>One thing to not fear food that you might be interested in is a concept called 'Intuitive Eating' - the idea is that when we need to go to the toilet we go because it's our bodies needs and it's no big deal, but for some reason when we get hungry we feel so much emotion around it - even though it's food and our body needs it too. If you are interested in it you could look at seeing a dietician or I'm happy to share books etc</P> <P>If you're ever having a really tough day of course we are here for you but you can also have an online web-chat with Butterfly (The Butterfly Foundation) - although they do a lot of eating disorder work they are super kind and lovely for anything body image related www.butterfly.org.au </P> <P>I hope this helps. You're not alone here.</P> <P>rt</P> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:49:52 GMT https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/eating-and-body-image/m-p/511563#M42645 romantic_thi3f 2020-09-14T23:49:52Z https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/eating-and-body-image/m-p/511564#M42646 I still feel fat today I wanna eat but I’m almost in tears over it because I petrified of gaining more weight Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:28:04 GMT https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/eating-and-body-image/m-p/511564#M42646 G12345 2020-09-15T00:28:04Z