Eating And Your Energy Levels
The Eating and Your Energy Levels handout provides an overview of the relationship between food intake and energy levels.
Eating And Your Energy Levels
The Eating And Your Energy Levels tool explains how restricted food intake affects your energy levels and leads to unpleasant symptoms and side-effects. It also highlights the benefits of eating more regularly, which can improve these symptoms and help you feel better.
Overview
Disordered patterns of eating play a central role in the maintenance of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and other specified feeding and eating disorders (OSFED). For this reason, psychoeducation regarding the content and consequences of ‘normal’ versus ‘abnormal’ patterns of eating are an important aspect of treatment.
This information handout describes relationship between food intake, energy levels, and eating disorder symptoms such as binge-eating. It graphically illustrates how common patterns of eating observed among people with eating disorders can affect energy levels, and the consequences that this has. It also highlights the benefits of stabilizing energy levels through regular eating and regular intake of carbohydrates.
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