Wreck This Eating Disorder
This book is intended as a self-help journal for teenagers with eating disorders and incorporates elements of mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy and other general activities designed to promote a healthy lifestyle.
This book is intended as a self-help journal for teenagers with eating disorders and incorporates elements of mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy and other general activities designed to promote a healthy lifestyle.
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Here are some suggestions to help you move to the next stage if<br />
you’re stuck:<br />
1. Precontemplation<br />
Take a look back at the ‘Reasons to recover’ page. These<br />
are the advantages to making your change. Of course<br />
there are difficulties but the change is worth it!<br />
2. Contemplation<br />
Talk your thoughts through with a friend or someone else.<br />
They might help you realise that if you work hard you can<br />
really do this!<br />
3. Preparation<br />
Tell your friends and family what you’re planning to do.<br />
Remove anything which may trigger you.<br />
Set a date and make a plan of what you’re going to do.<br />
4. Action<br />
Put your plan into action, remember why you’re doing it and<br />
if you have difficulties think about what you can do to get<br />
around them.<br />
5. Maintenance/Relapse<br />
You need to stick with your change; be aware of any<br />
warning signs that you might be slipping into old habits.<br />
If you do relapse, that’s okay! There’s a page later on (‘One<br />
step forwards, two steps back’) that looks at how to deal<br />
with this.<br />
Think about why things went wrong and what you can do<br />
next time to stop it happening: it often takes two or more<br />
goes to make a change stick.<br />
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