Overcoming eating disorder problems for better health

Overcoming eating disorder: Meaningful treatment experience

The fact that food is basic does not exempt it from causing trouble when used wrongly. We must be careful in ensuring that individually and collectively we join hands in overcoming eating disorders the best way we can. And that explains why the eating disorder goals at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury MD are very specific and tailored to educate patients, provide meaningful treatment experiences, and allow for integration of treatment effects. According to doctor Dalal Akoury MD, and also the founder of AWAREmed to achieve these goals the following principles needs to be incorporated in all treatment aspects:

Overcoming eating disorder: Mindfulness Training

• To us the overall goal is to facilitate the patient’s first steps on the long road to recovery, restoring each person to wholeness and good health of body, mind, and spirit.
• Provision of skills and resources to replace current unhealthy personal coping mechanisms
• Promotion of healthy lifestyle, including healthy body image
• Encouragement of autonomy in relationship to food and recovery for eating disorders

Nutrition philosophy

To remain relevant and effective, we strives to incorporate the latest medical and nutritional recommendations for our eating disorder population. The meals include a balance of low-fat, low-sodium, moderate-protein, and complex carbohydrate foods. Patients are encouraged to learn to enjoy the natural flavor of nutritiously prepared foods without adding artificial flavorings and sweeteners.

Personalized and structured meal plans

All of the eating disorder patients are provided with a personalized, structured meal plan to assist in learning healthy and balanced eating behaviors. During the treatment process, patients are encouraged to feed only on healthy food stuff and to avoid all that may ruin the gains made.

Fitness

The treatment for eating disorders program helps each patient develop a healthy relationship with exercise that is nourishing to the body. Patients work both individually and in group settings with a fitness specialist to develop a program that will meet their fitness goals within appropriate exercise boundaries. This personal approach leads patients through their fears, misconceptions, and unhealthy behaviors toward exercise.

Overcoming eating disorder: Exercise groups

During an initial consultation, the patient’s current relationship with exercise is explored, and a goal is established to define how the patient would like this relationship to develop. Patients have an individualized exercise program that may include strength training, flexibility, yoga, and water exercise. Eating disorder patients receive valuable instruction from our qualified and knowledgeable fitness staff to enable them to develop healthy exercise behaviors.

Patients receive education on exercise physiology to help them better understand conflicting information presented in magazines and the media.

Finally, doctor Akoury says that eating disorder treatment is possible and you need not to worry on where to seek treatment from. That is because having seen the suffering of many doctor Akoury made a decision to create a medical center whose main objective is to transform each individual’s life through increasing awareness about health and wellness and by empowering individuals to find their own inner healing power. Dr. Akoury’s practice focuses on personalized medicine through healthy lifestyle choices that deal with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of patching up symptoms. This is all you need to be well again. We can be reached on telephone number 843 213 1480 at any time of the day and we will attend to you professionally.

Overcoming eating disorder: Meaningful treatment experience