Bulimia Nervosa

If you have Bulimia you will be aware that your eating is out of control, perhaps you are afraid that you won’t be able to stop eating, and you may have an intense fear of becoming fat.

Having Bulimia can feel like being stuck in a vicious cycle. First you feel the ‘high’ of a food binge, this is followed by the ‘low’ of fear of becoming fat, you then feel the ‘rush’ of relief as you purge the food you have just eaten, and this is followed by intense feelings of guilt, shame and fear.

You may notice that your weight is in the normal to slightly overweight range, and you may well feel depressed and have a low self-esteem. You may also feel the extra stress of keeping your Bulimia secret from people in your life, with a fear that people will find out and judge you.

Treatment

The focus of our treatment is to extinguish the purging behaviour that you have by treating your need to binge. By unearthing the triggers that cause you to binge eat, we can help you build new ways of coping with the emotions these events bring, and help you develop new thinking styles to deal with life in a positive and empowering way.

1. We will work on Nutritional Interventions to help balance your blood and brain chemistry
2. We will show you how to break habits and create new behaviours in your life and around food
3. We will help you to name, feel and manage emotions without the need to use food to cut them off
4. We will unearth thoughts, beliefs and assumptions that are keeping you stuck in your Bulimia cycle and help you create new ways of interpreting situations and feelings
5. We will build your self-esteem and self-worth as you start to change the deep beliefs that shape your self-concept of who you are
6. We will help you create a new relationship with your body image and the way you believe other people see you
7. We will help you balance the many aspects of your life so that you have low feelings of stress and that you are able to enjoy regular activity to help you manage your weight
8. We will keep in touch as you enjoy the feelings of recovery from your Bulimia, so you know that help is always nearby

Please read some of the articles we have available for download, and read the client blog by Sadie who describes her journey on the road to recovery from Bulimia. It helps to know that you are not alone, and that many men and women suffer from Bulimia and recover fully from this Eating Disorder every day.

Please contact us to arrange a FREE 30 minute session to discuss how the WeightMatters Bulimia treatment programme can work for you. We believe that by coming to this session you will know if you connect with and like with your Eating Therapist – that’s a good place to start!

Call us today on 020 7499 8922 to book in with one of our team and get yourself on the road to recovery.