Mental Care Facts & Health Tips

You may be unhappy with your weight and sulk over how fat you are becoming each day. You don’t gorge on junk food, are able to take adequate rest and pretty much everything in your life seems to be in perfect order. Why the weight-gain problems then? Oh, wait a minute, you are a housewife! There is after all a cardinal rule that most housewives will grow fat sooner or later. Most people believe that and so may you. But, if you are blaming your obesity or excess weight on the fact that you are a housewife, you may be making a mistake.

It is easy to say that your fate is sealed as a housewife, because weight gain is unavoidable. You may be sad and desperate, but the fact is that you can easily help yourself. Being a housewife does not mean that you do less work than anyone. Most certainly, you have to do more work than people having desk jobs and so you are not fat because you are inactive.

In fact being a housewife allows you to be more active throughout the day than a lot of women who have jobs. Unless you have an army of maids or lots of helping hands around you, you may be running laps throughout the day! The kitchen, the laundry room, the children in the garden, the doorbell, the telephone etc., all require your attention.

If you could measure how much distance you cover all over your house every day, while doing your chores, you may be really surprised. In fact as a housewife, activity is the key to staying fit. So, if you want to get more active, ditch the maid service and get to work yourself. There’s so much to be done and so many calories to be burnt!

As a housewife, do you get too much time to rest? In fact this may be a reason behind your overweight. So, ask yourself whether you are sleeping more than you need to. Stop taking the afternoon nap and you will stop gaining fat in your body. Don’t sleep just because you have nothing to do, its criminal!

If your excess spare time is boring you to death, and all you can think of is sleep, why not start a part time job, to keep yourself occupied once all the chores have been completed? You can make some money and beat boredom at the same time.

You should also dedicate spare time for exercise, if your chores are not tiring you out already! Reserve late-afternoons for a trip to the gym or some basic exercises such as jumping jacks, squats and spot jogging right at home. You can also hire a personal trainer, if your budget permits. But joining a gym will also help you interact with other housewives who are exercising to stay fit.  This is particularly helpful in boosting your morale and making you understand that you are not the only housewife who has weight issues.

Hopefully, you are not feeling that desperate right now! Just be calm and help yourself get back in shape!

Eating disorders affect thousands of people each year. The majority of sufferers are young females, though men, boys, and older women also suffer from eating disorders. Any unhealthy eating pattern that one permanently participates in could be considered an eating disorder. Many people have an eating disorder for quite a while before they realize it. Here are some common eating disorders explained.

Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is probably the most widely discussed eating disorder. It is the eating disorder that results in the most obvious physical changes for the sufferer. Though sufferers of bulimia may maintain a normal body weight, anorexics are unable to maintain a normal body weight because of their refusal to eat.

Anorexia Nervosa is characterized as a complete refusal to keep body weight above 85% of what is considered normal. Anorexia Nervosa typically involves extreme calorie restriction in one’s daily diet. Many sufferers of this illness go through phases of bulimia.

Anorexics typically have extremely low self esteem. This disease is common in those who are considered “perfectionists” by outsiders. Though many anorexics have an intense fear of gaining weight, a lack of control over life seems to be the determining factor in what creates an anorexic. Anorexia often occurs in the lives of young adults who are struggling with stress and anxiety. They feel that they have no control over their lives and are spinning out of control. Living on an extremely low calorie diet and maintaining an abnormally thin figure becomes a way of controlling their environment.

Bulimia Nervosa

Bulimia is characterized as the binging and purging of food. Many anorexics also go through phases of bulimia. Bulimics may purge through vomiting or overuse of laxatives.

It is important to note that simply purging food would be more a characteristic of anorexia, where the sufferer will sometimes make themselves vomit or overuse laxatives to completely empty the system after a day of barely eating. Bulimics purge after an episode of intense binge eating and this is a very important characteristic of their disorder.

Recent research indicates that there is likely a genetic factor involved in bulimia though it is likely triggered by an environmental catalyst. Bulimics are often people who are overwhelmed by the emotions of everyday life. They have an incredibly difficult time dealing with intense emotions and seek out a means of punishment for what they feel they have failed at. Bulimics may be suffering because of how they feel toward themselves or how they feel toward an event that has occurred.

Compulsive Overeaters

Though anorexia and bulimia are the two eating disorders that seem to get the most attention, eating disorders are not simply related to weight loss. Eating an abnormal amount of food on a regular basis is also considered an eating disorder.

People who use food as a means of hiding their emotions or seem to have a food addiction are considered compulsive overeaters. Compulsive overeaters are sometimes called emotional eaters.  Though many people eat when they are feeling down, compulsive overeaters take it to the extreme. The underlying cause of compulsive overeating, like all eating disorders, is a lack of self esteem. Compulsive overeating is very common in sufferers of sexual abuse.

Reference Something-Fishy