Yeah.

So stress plus change in eating is what goes together to cause severe eating problems.

We're trying to catch it right at the stress wanting to change your eating situation.

So that would be something like a school dance is coming up, you want to cut back on your eating or lose weight to fit into a certain outfit.

That could be something harmful or bad happens to someone that you know and you want to try to prevent it by going on a diet.

Those kind of things, where it's a health-related concern, or it can even be something like a community stressful event.

It could be a natural disaster.

So what are some of the things that you see are happening there that are influencing that, that our listeners might wanna hear about?

Well, so the first

piece of this whole conversation has to be Is there an issue with the eating? You were saying you see a child in a larger body, you wanna help them with their eating.

We have to interrupt that thought process right off the bat and say, I see a child in a larger body.

How do you even know they're not eating healthy? Maybe they're eating perfectly healthy and this is their normal body type.

Someone has to be the biggest kid in fourth grade.

If this is the biggest kid in fourth grade, let's make sure they're a healthy, happy, confident, biggest kid in fourth grade.

So I have to draw your attention to the unconscious bias that's already in there.

So what are

It's spiraling the individual and it's also spiraling all these people, right?

So because even if 100 people say that's crazy, it's the one person that thinks that's something to aspire to.

So I compare it to when you're driving down the street and there's a sign that says, please slow down.

For the person who's driving 50 miles an hour through the neighborhood, that's a good sign.

Maybe they're alert and they're like, please slow down.

Yes.

And for the majority of people who are just driving 25 or 30 miles an hour in the neighborhood, they see the sign and they go, I'm already driving pretty slow.

Jessica, anything else coming up that you feel like listeners should know about eating disorders that you think is heavily missed?

Um-

And this is an important thing that I wanna add, is I notice that when I go on vacation, I feel much better about my body, and I think there's two parts.

I love a beach vacation, and people will wear the craziest stuff on the beach.

Like, I saw a man in, like, a one-piece thong unitard on the beach, okay? Like, this was not a bathing suit made for a man, but he was doing his thing, you know? There's all kinds of bodies on the beach.

It's, it's just like, wait, I forgot that we're not necessarily like, uh, now granted, I'm admiring or looking at people, so we are being looked at, but I'm not being judged all the time.

Like, these people have, are having a happy life with whatever body size they have.

Okay, so that's part one.

Like, we started to go to m- like minimizing and, like, cleaning out the closets and just decluttering, and now it's all about the maxing.