Food Porn! Eating Disorder Video #23

This week"s video addresses something that I know many people with eating disorders struggle with. That is food porn. I know that for many of you that term is something new. What I mean by food porn is when you watch The Food Network or any other cooking channel for hours on end, or maybe you spend all night looking up recipes. Whatever it is that you do, whenever you spend an extreme amount of time doing it, you are feeding your eating disorder. Usually we talk only about the actual ED behaviors like binging, purging or over exercising. This is something that we also do to hinder our recovery, and we may even do it in secret and be embarrassed if someone found us doing it. That"s why I call it porn. Because it feels good when we are watching it or doing it, we do it in secret, and we spend more time than any other person would spend doing it. We can never get enough!
So what I am asking you to do is just acknowledge what other ED porn behaviors you have. Notice how long you spend doing them and why it is that you choose these porn sites. Do you watch food network because you are hungry and you want to watch food being prepared? Do you look up recipes in order to plan your next binge? Do you watch runway shows to support your ED"s belief that that is what a real woman looks like? Think about why you do it, and take note of how long you spend each day. Instead of trying to just stop looking at it or doing it all together, let"s just try to cut back by one hour this week. See how you feel doing it less? Do you find yourself craving it more? Do you try to sneak it in at other times when you normally wouldn"t? Do you feel a bit of freedom? Whatever it is, write it down and slowly titrate your food/ED porn time down. Let me know how it is going and remember to comment below as well as subscribe to my channel.

Each and every day we will keep working towards a healthy mind and a healthy body.

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