Eating Disorders Questions

Alitze is a social work student working on a project about eating disorders.  I am posting the answers to her questions here because I think they are helpful to the general public.

Struggling with food or body image?

Our group is open to men and women struggling with restricting, bingeing, compulsive eating, compulsive exercise, and body image difficulties. Friends, partners, and family members are welcome too.  Drop in or call Liz for more information.

Lakeview ED Group meeting Fridays 7 - 8 pm

We're now meeting regularly on Friday evenings from 7 to 8 pm in the basement studio of the Lakeview Center at 3322 N. Ashland Ave. (right near Belmont and Ashland, off the Paulina Brown Line stop). Stop by, or call (773) 506-4454 for more information!

Lakeview ED Group Restarting Friday 2/26 at 7pm

The Eating Disorders Support Group will be meeting starting this Friday, February 26th, from 7pm to 8pm. The group is a free, weekly, drop-in support group for people of all ages dealing with eating disorders of any kind. We meet at 3322 N. Ashland Avenue, in the basement floor meeting room. Please call Liz Nickrenz at (773) 506-4454 if you would like more information about the group, to let us know you are coming, or to request a discussion topic.

Looking forward to seeing you!
Liz

Restarting Lakeview support group

It is looking like we are moving toward Friday at 7pm as a time to hold the group. But we want to make sure this is a time when you would be available to attend! If you are interested in attending the group, please comment here or call (773) 506-4454 and let us know whether this time would work for you.

Looking forward to starting things up again!
Liz

Support Group on Temporary Hiatus

The Eating Disorders support group at the Lakeview Center for Psychotherapy is on a temporary hiatus until the end of January. We will be starting up meetings again in February, possibly on Friday evenings. Watch this space for updates - or call Liz Nickrenz at (773) 506-4454 if you are interested in being contacted when groups begin again.

Weekly Support Group Meeting

Thanks to everyone who came to last week's meeting. We'll be meeting again this Thursday, September 10th, at 6:45. Once you come in the front door of the building and the front door of the Lakeview Center, look for the door leading downstairs to the lower level, which will have a sign posted on it. If you have ideas for topics you'd like to discuss, or things on your mind that you'd like to see covered at the meeting, bring them to the meeting and/or comment on this post!

Have a great week,

Liz

Did you know....

Did you know...

	If shop mannequins were real women, they'd be too thin to menstruate.
	There are 3 billion women who don't look like supermodels ...and 8 who do.
	Marilyn Monroe wore between a size 12 and a size 16.
	If Barbie were a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
	The average American woman weighs 144 lbs. and wears between a size 12 and 14.
	One out of every 4 college-aged women has an eating disorder.
	The models in the magazines are airbrushed: they are not perfect!
	A psychological study in 1995 found that 3 minutes spent looking at models in a fashion magazine caused 70% of women to feel depressed, guilt and shameful.
	Twenty years ago models weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today they weigh 23% less.

Recovery

The improvement of understanding is for two ends:
first, for our own increase in knowledge;
secondly, to enable us to deliver and make
out that knowledge to others.

John Locke

The Natural Order of Things

True wisdom consists of not departing from Nature
but in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

Roman philosopher Lucius Anaeus Seneca