I went to see the EAP counselor yesterday to talk about exercise resistance. I learned that resistance is its own field/area/category? in psychology. It seems it goes back to Freud.
Anyway, she said that if a person is resisting, then the person is engaged.
I didn’t really get this until I applied it to a [...]

Actually, I’m more mad than that. I’m fucking pissed off.
Today is Tuesday; the day that I have my CBT group in the Kaiser Eating Disorder program. So I drive up to Walnut Creek from Livermore only to find that the group has been cancelled. They didn’t even call me. [...]

Part 5.
When working with an exercise resistant individual, one must explore and resolve the source of the resistance, such as underlying anxiety, resentment, or anger. The goal of treatment is that the individual will be able to become physically active by choice, not coercion. It is important to begin by validating the resistance and even [...]

Part 4.
A theme ran through the comments of the women studied that echoes the information in chapter 4, “Sociocultural Influences on Eating, Weight, and Shape.” Most of the women expressed that they felt extremely degraded and vulnerable by their direct experiences of being encouraged to exercise as a means to achieve an acceptable body. Instead [...]

Part 3
THE MEANING OF EXERCISE RESISTANCE
To better understand exercise resistance, we can borrow from our understanding of how weight loss diets have affected eating behavior. We know that weight loss diets are a key aspect in the historical mistreatment of overweight individuals, in many cases actually contributing to binge eating, which increases over time. [...]

Part 2
RISK FACTORS FOR DEVELOPING EXERCISE RESISTANCE
A history of sexual abuse of any kind at any age.
A history of three or more weight loss diets.
Exercise used as a component of a weight loss regimen.
A larger body size as a boundary or defense against unwanted sexual attention or sexual intimacy (be it conscious or unconscious).
Parents who [...]

Part 1
Underactivity or physical passivity appears to offer a sense of control over body and feelings, just as disordered eating and over-exercise do. Exercise resistance may simply be another component in the menu of options from which men and women find themselves suffering in this time of epidemic eating and body image problems. If we [...]

We talked about this in group today. DebTherapist handed out a very interesting article from WebMD on Exercise Resistance in Women. If you can find the article, let me know.
Exercise resistance is an entrenched inactivity pattern that is resistant to intervention or treatment. Many professionals (heck, people in the general population, too) [...]

So I went to give blood this morning. I like giving blood, when I can. Often, I just can’t, mostly because of a lack of time, but also because if I give blood, then I can’t exercise that day. (I have an eating disorder, remember?)
It’s not convient to give blood. I [...]

A Guide for Family Members and Friends This is a list of dos and don’ts for people who care about someone who has an eating disorder. Although bulimia is specifically mentionned in this list, the list is applicable to any eating disorder in my opinion.