In this episode, Eating Disorder expert Dietitian Hala Abu Taha chats to Mental Health Advocate Maha Khan, of @islamandeatingdisorders about navigating Ramadan with an Eating Disorder.
Together they evoke:
- Risks of fasting for ED patients
- How to mentally prepare for the challenges that lie ahead- and how to develop healthy behaviors and traditions that are worth keeping year round to help boost our health and happiness.
– Managing meal times, the trigger of the large meals and feelings of guilt around (not) eating, comparison, without relapsing
– Maintaining relationship – dealing with the feeling of no one understands, isolation, social pressure and stress of “holidays”
- How to spend Ramadan with people who simply don’t understand Eating Disorders?
- How to deal with family when they insist we fast
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