- Hey everybody, happy Thursday.
When it's Thursday, we talk about things in the media
which there's actually a lot going on in the media
about changes in overseas and different parts of the world
for treatment, but nothing really great to report yet,
so stay tuned.
But I have two questions from #katiefaq, if you're wondering
hey, I'm new here, how do I get my question answered,
what do I do?
You ask it below my Monday video
so the video that will come out this coming Monday,
you put it below there in the comments,
or you hop onto Katiemorton.com.
There's a bunch of things across the top, the tab,
and it says Katie's Videos, you scroll down,
it says Q & A for Videos.
So welcome to my channel,
and that's how you ask your questions
and that's how they get answered.
So I realized I have not talked about eating disorders
in a long time.
Sacrilege, and that's my specialty.
So I have two questions, all about eating disorders,
your welcome, because I love you and you and you.
Okay, lets get going.
First question, Hey Katie, I know you've talked a little
about this in a previous video, but I was wondering
if you could talk more about what over-exercising is
and why it is bad.
My therapist and dietician want me to stop going to the gym
so much, but no matter what they tell me,
I don't understand what's so bad about it.
Okay, so I'll try to make this short.
The reason that over-exercising is bad is because
number one, from the therapist's standpoint,
it's a coping skill and it's not a healthy one
because it really intereferes with your life
and your ability to hang out with people,
so that's from the psychological standpoint.
So you're using exercise as a way to cope
with all sorts of feelings and emotions
that you don't really want to have.
So that could be the fact
that you're being forced to eat more
as part of your recovery
and so you're exercising to compensate
and therefore, you're still in your eating disorder.
But medically, we know that this,
and this is the second part,
is that it takes a lot of energy for our body to exercise.
When we're not giving our body enough energy
and we're exerting energy, where does the energy come from?
It steals it from other parts of our body,
which means that it eats away at our muscles.
That sounds weird, right, for trying to produce
more muscle but your body doesn't have all the stuff
that it needs to produce more muscle
and so it's just burning away things like our heart,
which is a big muscle, and other muscles along our bodies.
So even though we're working out,
we're not actually gaining any muscle mass.
It's bad, it's really, really bad for you.
And on a sidenote, the reason that it's bad
to do it too much, from the psychological standpoint
and we'll go into that just a little bit more
because I feel like I need to talk about it more,
'cause that's what I do.
If you ever, this is how you know if you're overexercising,
'cause I can sense a lot of comments coming in about that.
If you don't want to exercise, and I don't mean like,
I should go walking today.
I mean if your body is so tired and you are just exhausted
and you go anyway.
Or if you have plans or people want to see you
and you want to hang out or do actual social interactions,
and instead you cancel and you go workout,
or if you get up at a crazy, fucking ridiculous time
to get all this exercise in before your day,
that's an eating disorder, that is too much exercise.
That means exercise is ruling your life.
Exercise isn't an additional nice thing you've put in,
it's something that you are compelled to do.
It's part of the OCD part of eating disorders.
I have more videos about that if you want to check that out.
Question number two, "Hey Katie and the rest of y'all,"
and this went on Katiemorton.com,
this was quite the conversation
so I decided to talk about it.
It says, "I have a problem.
"Yesterday I binged and today I am crying
"and a depressed mess and I only want to sleep
"and not be conscious at all.
"How do you deal with this kind of binge aftermath?"
So I'll answer that question.
The second is, "I can feel a binge coming on,
"how do I stop it?"
Now Shadow and, I forget, Callie, somebody else
had a really bunch of great things to say
so I will give you a brief synopsis of theirs
and if you want more information, go onto my website.
When your are dealing with the aftermath of a binge,
because remember recovery's a process, it's not perfection.
So we need to get it out, whether that's journaling,
I have some clients who paint and draw it out,
some sing it out, some dance it out,
however you feel you can get all that negativity
that you're feeding yourself out,
like I'm so stupid, I'm so lazy, I'm just so fat
and my recovery's down the shitter
and I'm back at square one,
all that bullshit that it tells you, get it out.
Because after that comes kind of like the cuddling softness
that we all need from ourselves, to be like
what was the real cause?
Oh, remember that trigger, 'cause your mom was such a jerk
and always we know that that really bugs you?
Or that person was really rude and we know how much
that affects us during our day.
Whatever it is, we have to recognize where it comes from
so that we can look and prepare for future triggers,
because it happens, it's life,
and so we have to prepare for that.
So when this happens, then it's good to recognize
what the trigger is.
Following?
And then, get out, distract yourself,
don't let this keep ruminating.
It's almost like that video I put out a long time ago,
how to stop overthinking and, also, the other video
about not letting what people say ruin our day.
Those are two great resources to watch now
if you find yourself just ruminating.
And you can feel a binge coming on, how do I stop it?
Now I'm gonna challenge all of you.
If you're feeling like this,
some people do struggle with binging
even when they're not hungry and I would encourage you
to figure out what it is that you're really needing.
Is it comfort, is it communication,
is it getting out of the house, like we just movement,
we need sunshine.
Do we need to go play with an animal at the pet store,
what is it that we're really looking for,
what's it that we're gonna binge on?
But if we are actually hungry,
we physically feel very hungry,
are you eating enough during the day?
You may want to talk to your dietician
because they may want to up your meal plan.
Because when we restrict or we limit foods,
like I can't have ice cream ever,
I can't have broccoli ever,
I'm just throwing out random words
because I don't want any of you to think that anything
is good or bad, all foods are necessary in moderation.
So talk to a dietician, figure out what's going on,
because us not getting enough nutrients
or limiting ourselves and restricting
is what leads to binges.
So consider these things, and you can check out my website
if you want more of the chatter
and you want to get in the conversation,
'cause I thought that was a really good topic,
that that's really where binges come from
and how we can manage the aftermath.
I love you all, I will see you on Monday.
And if you're new to my channel, welcome
and click here to subscribe and I will see you all then.
Bye.