National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: Let's Get Started

Eating Disorders affect 1 in 5 women 

and more than a million boys/men.  

NEDA Asks That You Do  

Just One Thing 

 to spread awareness about eating disorders.

What Can You Do?

 NEDA:

•  Everyone Can Do Just One Thing 
• Video Resource List  
• NEDA's Partner Orgs check them out for some excellent resources, information, and inspiration.
• Sign the No Weigh Declaration 
• Join NEDA's first annual "Virtual Walk," and spread awareness by posting, tweeting, blogging, talking, and walking.
• Check out NEDA's Tool Kits

Speak Up and Reach Out

• If you're keeping your ED a secret please reach out and tell someone.
• Share your story, struggles, and successes with others.
• Find support in your community, online, friends, and/or family.
• Seek professional help.

ED Resources and Information

• What is an Eating Disorder?
  
• Eating Disorder Help/ Resources
• Mental Health Help/ Resources

please see sidebar drop down menus for more info/links/resources

I Choose Sanity: A Journey To Recovery

I Choose Sanity

i walk slowly to the light
knowing the journey will not be easy
but i refuse to sit and do nothing
because i am worth every step i take

i may fall backwards
and want to give up
to give in
but these fleeting thoughts i will let go

i will let go of the desire to be perfect
to accept who i am in this journey
to know there is a light at the end of the tunnel
that i am worth the journey

it may be hard
i may cry
i may feel pain
but these moments to shall pass

a little walk is better than sitting frozen
i may take two steps back and one step forward
but this is ok
it is ok to be who i am

for these are just moments
and they too shall pass
i refuse to give up
and be defined by it

for i am more than i can see

i choose to see me in my loved ones eyes
to see what they see
to believe in that
and to one day get back to that place in my own mind

written by: Kendra Sebelius via A Voice In Recovery.

*See sidebar menu for more ED poetry and writings

*Click here to have your Eating Disorders/Body Image poetry/writings featured on Weighing The Facts

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/safetylast/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Virtual Candlelight Vigil: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

The Alabama Network For Eating Disorders Awareness (ALNEDA) has brought back their Virtual Candlelight Vigil again this year. They invite you to light a candle to honor individuals whose lives have been touched by an eating disorder.

The colors of the candles have the following meanings:

• White candles: Remembrance, for individuals who have lost their lives to an eating disorder.
• Silver candles: Support for individuals who are struggling with an eating disorder.
• Gold: Celebration for individuals who are in recovery or who have recovered from an eating disorder.

Candles will be on display today through the 27th.

Why not start National Eating Disorders Awareness Week by lighting a candle for a loved one and/or yourself...

Light A Candle

View Lit Candles

ALNEDA's homepage

Picture source:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/batokman/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2010

Tomorrow starts National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. The theme this year is, "It's Time To Talk About It," so that's what we'll be doing here.

Among the things Weighing The Facts will be featuring this week are:

• Personal stories from readers
• Eating Disorders and Body Image Bloggers
• Links to resources for information, help, and recovery
• Recovery Quotes

There's still time if you'd like to share your story or poem here for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.