Behaviors of Anorexia Nervosa (Part 1 of 3)

Dr. Walter Kaye is the director of the UC San Diego (UCSD) Eating Disorder Treatment & Research Center (eatingdisorders.ucsd.edu). In this video, Dr. Kaye describes the behavioral and physiological changes associated with Anorexia Nervosa by specifically focusing on how individuals with Anorexia Nervosa are able to lose weight and eat so little for many years.
Individuals with Anorexia have been shown to become obsessed with calories and dieting and may engage in behaviors associated with ritual eating, small food portions, vegetarianism, food distortions, protein sparing, as well as unusual food combinations. Research suggests that individuals with Anorexia Nervosa possess an altered satiety response to sugar that has been shown to persist post-recovery. Dr. Kaye highlights the benefits of nutritional restoration in individuals with Anorexia Nervosa as research suggests that the starvation behaviors of those with Anorexia Nervosa can lead to substantial changes in most organ systems.
Dr. Kaye explores the relationship between mood and eating in individuals with eating disorders in which behaviors typical of those with Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa have been linked to anxiety and dysphoria. Dr. Kaye concludes by introducing the "Keys to Success Weight Gain Approach", which provide social, biological, behavioral, and emotional guidelines to nutritional restoration.
Part 1: • Behaviors of Anorexia ...
Part 2: • Is Anorexia Nervosa an...
Part 3: • Disturbance of Brain A...
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[@janeadelaidelennox7193]

No no, anorexics don’t prefer sweets any more than any other group of people. When you’re not getting enough glucose, you naturally crave sweet foods. Like violently. You brain remembers that long after.
As for fat? That’s more complex. Certain fats give me nervous stomach. I don’t have a fear of fat, but I have strict rules about it. Like fat and carbs need to never touch. MAYBE I’d eat fruit with fish on occasion. But am I afraid of the fish? Not at all. It’s a very specific system. Not a fear of fat, exactly.
I think the fear of fat was seen historically because of the myth that fat causes fat and carbs help you lose weight. Now that we have dissolved that myth, you may see patients shift to fat and protein and vegetables. I’d watch kidneys going forward honestly... Ketosis is a major win. As soon as I realized that worked, this makes up a bulk of what I do eat. I haven’t eaten pasta in ... god five, six years? Won’t go near it. So I don’t think you’ll see restriction patterns change, but the enemy foods may begin to shift a bit.
Veggies are always number one love of course. That won’t ever change.
Just my input

[@arnulfoacevedo8147]

Lol I only eat eggs, bacon and any meat that isn’t high in carbs, on a good day I only consume 10-15 carbs throughout the day, on my bad days I just purge til I can’t no more and I don’t really wanna purge cause I don’t even eat a lot to begin with

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Craving sweets is definitely strange

[@dietcokehead350]

I think anorexics are just susceptible to diet trends of the time. It's more a psychological/sociological thing than a physical aversion. Keto is a big trend amongst them now.

[@dietcokehead350]

@Cat O back when I first was in the ED community it was all vegan now they're all keto.

[@biancamariagoglia7693]

Just i am never hungry.

[@vjglucky7]

Is anxiety chemical? Is anorexia anxiety, at its root? Does anxiety grow and possibly morph into anorexia? depending on circumstances. AN looks to me like whirling Dervish, can’t stop. Is that chemical? Individual’s subconscious messaging, mute, ineloquent, “See me, stop me. Help me.” Unable to ask that her needs be met-including-firm guidance for doing hard things. I don’t want to take the awful tasting medicine. “But-you must, and I’m here to help you do what you must. Trust me, rest from hyper vigilance, trust me this is exactly right, enough and not too much. Trust me. Rest.” Anxiety, AN, wants ALL options available, e.g. do eat, don’t eat, eat only this, or even medical assistance in dying. Anorexia wants all options open but a symptom of AN is apparent indecision. And indecision looks like a decision to refuse treatment. (Stop me. Help me. I can’t do it, not on my own). Does this sound true?