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Episode 28: How God Delivered Me From Orthorexia: Veganism Was My Idol But Jesus Heals
Hey everyone, in this video I talk about how God delivered me from orthorexia. I did not know until God revealed to me over a year ago that I had a patter of disordered eating due to trauma and fear. I was hesitant to share this video but God gave me the courage to do it. I pray it helps someone that may be dealing with this as well. Remember Jesus is a healer, and you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you! God bless you.
Orthorexia is a term that describes an obsession with eating healthy food. It comes from the Greek words ortho, meaning 'correct' and orexis, meaning 'appetite'. A person with orthorexia is fixated with the quality, rather than quantity, of their food to an excessive degree.
@ome of the most common symptoms of orthorexia: 1. A fixation over the quality of food: This is really at the core of orthorexia. Individuals living with orthorexia are extremely focused – and often obsessive – over the quality and purity of their food. Individuals with this condition often limit “go foods” to those that are organic, farm fresh, whole, raw and/or vegan. The quantity of food is typically less important than that quality.
2. Inflexible eating patterns: Someone with orthorexia is likely incredibly rigid with their food consumption. Anything considered by the individual to be “bad” or “unhealthy” will likely be avoided. A common example of this inflexibility is if someone with orthorexia were stuck on an island, and the only food available to them was something that they have deemed “unhealthy” they would choose to eat nothing.
3. Severe emotional turmoil if “rules” are broken: If someone strays from their rigid eating patterns, or from their strict self-prescribed exercise regimen, severe anxiety, distress, shame, guilt and/or depression typically follow.
4. Cutting out entire food groups: This certainly tells you how rigid these orthorexia-fueled rule-based diets can become. Elimination of entire food groups is a common occurrence for this population of people, commonly including processed foods, sugar, meat, dairy products, carbohydrates and/or gluten.
5. Constant worry about sickness or disease: Back to the whole “good” versus “bad” foods – many individuals with orthorexia believe they will fall ill if they consume foods that are not “whole” or “clean” often considering these foods to be “poison.” To them, the risk of these foods causing sickness or diseases – although mostly unfounded – far outweighs eating that specific food.
6. Anxiety simply being around certain foods: Someone with orthorexia might feel an intense need to separate themselves from their forbidden foods. They may feel incredibly uncomfortable or leave a room if that food can be seen. Unfortunately, isolating is a common avoidance technique for those with orthorexia–skipping social events that will have “fear foods”—often leading to depression and intensified thought disturbances and behaviors.
7. This condition isn’t typically driven by poor body image: While individuals with anorexia might exhibit similar patterns of restriction, orthorexia isn’t necessarily rooted in obsessions over appearance or efforts to lose weight. orthorexia is entrenched in the need to eat or be “healthy.”
8. Loss of weight: Although weight is not necessarily a clinical marker of orthorexia, some cases do involve weight loss. An orthorexia diet is an unbalanced diet that often results in malnutrition. While someone with orthorexia may feel as though cutting out certain foods will bring immense health benefits, they are often doing quite the opposite–depleting their own nutrition in vastly limiting food variety. Again, this weight loss is typically not intentional.
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