Carys Puleston - Counsellor and Eating Disorders Therapist

24/12/2021

Christmas can be tough when you have issues with food. This article has some great suggestions. If you need some additional help going forward, I offer specialist sessions in person on online and have years of experience in helping people recover from all sorts of problems with food. Please contact me at carys.puleston@gmail.com. Next year can look brighter 🙂 https://apple.news/A2YEn8-m2TtKyyjSqQpCatg

Rather than the most wonderful time of the year, Christmas can be the "worst" or "hell" for those with an eating disorder. | ITV National News

21/06/2021

If they start bullying parents and forcing children on diets they will cause untold misery for years to come. Children in larger bodies are 42 times more likely to get an eating disorder than T2 diabetes. https://apple.news/AiBVc09vXTTW0GIN3DhpP-Q

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30/05/2021

Perfect explanation!

18/05/2021

Well worth investigating this supportive online community if you are fed up of dieting and want to work on your relationship with food and your body ( it’s the only thing that works long term). https://beyond-chocolate.mn.co/share/-pDIYkxNEpmnDkVC

The Beyond Chocolate community has been a place of refuge from the stress and madness of Diet Culture since 2000. At Beyond Chocolate we guide and empower you to rebuild the knowledge and trust that we are all born with. You will unlearn all the destructive diet beliefs and behaviours, so that you c...

18/04/2021

Interview I gave this morning on East Devon Radio. (Yes, it is me, despite the rather creative spelling of my name!). Talking about anorexia and eating disorders in general. https://www.eastdevon.radio/listen-again/sunday-mornings-with-howard-james/episode/sunday-mornings-with-howard-james-apr-18th-guests-carys-polestone-eating-disorders-councellor-honiton-and-helen-myneck-national-childrens-champion-exmouth/ Interview starts at just after 15 minutes in (10.15am)

Sunday Mornings with Howard James-Apr 18th-Guests-Carys Polestone (Eating Disorders Councellor, Honiton) and Helen Myneck (National Children's Champion, Exmouth)

15/04/2021

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11/04/2021

This is worth taking on board.

01/03/2021

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No, you don’t need to diet before the end of lockdown.

16/02/2021

If you would like some support with that second option, I can help. It’s worth the risk.

09/02/2021

Excellent advice here. I posted this 3 years ago and it’s worth repeating.

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Repost from using - Frustrated to see WW’s new campaign targeting teens. So many of my clients have memories of their restrictive and shame-based relationship with food and body beginning with going to WW or being put on a diet or being made to feel their body was too big.
No, eating disorders are not the *fault* of parents. Parents are generally doing the best they know how with what they have accessible and with what they’ve been taught. Which is why we need to let more parents know that the best way to support their children’s health, wellbeing, self esteem, etc is by affirming them. NOT seeking to change or shrink them. Want more resources? Check out Ellyn Satter’s books on childhood feeding, the book Born To Eat and check out these pages:

15/01/2021

Some good sense here.

02/01/2021

2020 was hard for a multitude of reasons. The insidious one was how weight stigma became popular again as BMI correlations (not causations) were used to justify discrimination. As a result, the cyclical new year weight loss advertising have even more emotional manipulation than usual. Don’t fall for them.
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If you want your new year resolution to include improving your health, that’s great! However, the least reliable way of doing that is by trying to deliberately manipulate your weight.
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Focus on the other things that are actually reliable indicators... better sleep, reducing alcohol, getting more fruit and veg, regular exercise... all of those are guaranteed to improve your health, irrelevant of what happens to the number on the scales. No word of a lie.
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Losing weight is not your life’s purpose, no matter how aggressively diet culture tells you it is. Save this post and remind yourself of it daily. Send it to a friend. Make it your wallpaper. Don’t let anyone dissuade you of its truth and importance.
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📸: image (without text) from Chris Madden Cartoons

23/12/2020

You aren’t alone.

21/12/2020

Christmas can be a tricky time in the best of years. If you need support, please reach out.

26/10/2020