Prevent the Flu! Eating Disorder Recovery Video with Kati Morton - Influenza

(cough) It's flu season! What do we do?

Stay tuned.

So it's the winter time. Everybody's

getting sick. I was watching on the news.

It was like, in the States obviously, 43

states are calling this a - I don't even

know - national disaster, or some

ridiculous news-like term. But it is

the flu season and every year, 5-20

percent of the population gets the flu.

And obviously these are state statistics,

so I'm sorry for those of you who aren't

in the States but that gives you a rough

idea. I'm sure it's very similar

everywhere. But that means that a lot

of us are getting sick. And if we're not

getting sick, a lot of people around us

are getting sick. Aghh. For germophobes

it's like the worst time of the year. But

anyway, so what do we do? We have to

prepare because the thing is, every year

over 200,000 people have hospital - bleh,

sometimes I can't talk - hospitalizations

due to flu complications. And you know who

those people are? That end up in there?

The elderly, children, and people who are

already sick. And guess what? We sometimes

fall in that category. Right? Because

we're not eating properly, we're not

really taking care of ourselves, and so

our immune system is really depressed and

we don't really have anything to fight it

off. We don't have any of those good bugs

that fight off the bad bugs. Right? I

think that's what they call them. But

anyway, like I said, I'm not a doctor. But

we need to prepare. And something I

always do every year in preparation, so

that I am strong and I can fight, is I

get the flu shot. And you know now - like

okay, one of my best friends, and I'm

not gonna call her out by name but I hope

she watches this and she laughs to

herself, she's deathly afraid of needles.

I mean, one year, cause she works in HR,

they gave shots, flu shots, in the office

(ah!) she couldn't even handle it - so now

it's like a tenth of the size of the

needle it used to be. You don't even see

it. It's like the smallest needle ever. So

for those of you who are afraid, just like

look over to the side and like talk to

somebody 'cause it will be done before

you know it and the needle is not even -

I don't even know how it gets in to do

what it needs to do - so, flu shot. What

else do we do? We hydrate. Now I hear

from a lot of you, and I hear from a lot

of my clients, "I don't drink water

because I'll gain water weight..." No.

Not now. Not now. Water is good. Our body

needs water and I know, if anything, if

you're eating disorder is like a calorie

counting, then that doesn't even count.

So please fight back against that voice.

Do my first task in my workbook. Fight

back, because you need to stay hydrated.

That's like my number one most scary thing

that I hear from my clients is, "I don't

drink water." Because we can go longer

without food that we can water. So please

drink water. Okay. So we're gonna stay

hydrated. And we're gonna get our flu

shots. Yes, yes, yes. And then, take

preventative measures. Take vitamin C.

Drink some orange juice in the morning.

I'm a huge fan of Emergen-C. And no this

is not a plug. If they were paying me that

would be awesome, but they're not. But

Emergen-C is great. You can throw it in

your water. You shake it up. I have like

little water bottles that I take with me

to work every day and I drink and fill

and drink and fill. Right? 'Cause I'm

talking all the time. La-La-La. I get

really dry. Water. And I just fill it with

Emergen-C. Ta-da! I think it has like

a thousand-whatever milligrams of

Vitamin C to make us strong, so we can

fight. Right? Because the flu can really

take us out. And the thing that's the

worst is because we are already immune

system depressed, right? Our immune system

is like, "I just can't! I don't have it in

me! I'm gonna take a nap!" instead. But,

because that's already happening and we

are already weak, and we may not be eating

enough, the flu really takes us out. And

then, guess what? Our little eating

disorder is like, "ha ha! I'm gonna take

advantage of this and I'm gonna make you

do this" and no more! Now you've been

feeling sick, you've been throwing up,

you've had a fever, no appetite,

'cause that's a bad side effect of getting

sick, right? It's like, "ha ha! We win!"

No! Bad! Bad eating disorder! No more!

Right? 'Cause it kind of takes advantage

of when we're down and out and it's like

"I'm gonna get you." So, we need to

protect ourselves. So make sure you're

doing those things. Go get the flu shot.

CVS, Walgreens - I want to say it's like

$10. I think I paid $10. Plus tax or

whatever else they want to charge you for.

It probably cost me 15 by the time I was

out of there. But, do that. Get that. Get

some Emergen-C. They come in a box for

like $14, although I live in L.A. so

I'm probably getting screwed. It's

probably like $9.99 somewhere where

you guys are. But, get it. Pick it up.

There's Zicam.