I’m writing this post in my capacity as Chair of the Welsh Assembly’s Cross-Party Group on Healthy Living. This Group is a bi-partisan organisation whose main aim is to promote the many benefits of a healthier lifestyle, as well as to raise awareness of the work of its various component parts amongst politicians and policy-makers in Wales.
It’s important to realise that we’re not just concerned with physical health and the need for more exercise to tackle obesity. We’re also very much about dietary, emotional, mental and sexual health. Since Bethan joined our Group after becoming an AM, we have also started to take an interest in how raising awareness of eating disorders is part of promoting a healthier lifestyle.
An eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia is very much an issue of dietary and physical health, but it equally affects a person’s emotional and mental health. In today’s world there seems to be an unrelenting pressure for young women to be a ‘size zero’ and for young men to be ripped with muscles. These social pressures can no doubt have an effect on one’s emotional and mental health, in some cases then leading to significant alterations in one’s dietary and physical health. These are the messages that the Group seeks to raise awareness of, and it should form an increasingly important part of our work in the future.
Jeff Cuthbert AM
Friday, 30 January 2009
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Contribution from Nick Bourne AM
As an Assembly Member I am conscious of the fact that many more young people are suffering from eating disorders.
In most cases eating disorders result from a combination of pressures, events or feelings which can lead to boredom, anxiousness, anger, loneliness, sadness or low self-esteem.
People feel unable to cope with their situation and food becomes a way of relieving the pain and stress they are experiencing.
I first became aware of this problem when constituents in Aberystwyth raised with me the lack of clinician cover in Ceredigion.
I am pleased to be associated with the All-Party Group in the Assembly dedicated to raising awareness of this problem and to increasing the availability of clinicians to help sufferers across
Wales.
Nick Bourne AM
In most cases eating disorders result from a combination of pressures, events or feelings which can lead to boredom, anxiousness, anger, loneliness, sadness or low self-esteem.
People feel unable to cope with their situation and food becomes a way of relieving the pain and stress they are experiencing.
I first became aware of this problem when constituents in Aberystwyth raised with me the lack of clinician cover in Ceredigion.
I am pleased to be associated with the All-Party Group in the Assembly dedicated to raising awareness of this problem and to increasing the availability of clinicians to help sufferers across
Wales.
Nick Bourne AM
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Blog Sarah Aldritt
Contrary to the stereotypes that surround anorexia, being thin was never a priority for me; I have never thought I was fat or spent hours staring and pinching at flesh in the mirror. However, I think my gradual slide into ‘full blown’ anorexia began, aged 17, when I chose to give up chocolate for lent. Denying my incredibly sweet tooth this ‘naughty’ food gave me the sense of achievement that I could get from obsessively abstaining from something I loved. I felt powerful, in control and superior to others who gave in to their cravings.
During the next 5 years, my addiction to strict regimes of exercise and eating provided a constant in my life. Whilst always comparing myself to others and feeling inadequate and stressed at the prospect of messing life up, at least I had the comfort of knowing I was disciplined at exercise and I controlled what I ate.
Inevitably though, I couldn’t always keep up my rigid routines. Often, at night, I would allow myself the food that was forbidden during the day...this always resulted in feeling out of control, followed by the guilt and disgust at myself for being so weak. I wouldn’t feel right again until I had gone to the gym or for a long run...until everything was back ‘in order’. Even as my weight fell below six stone in late 2007, I still had these episodes of ‘bingeing’. Although I had always acknowledged I had a problem, when anorexia was diagnosed this suggestion seemed ridiculous – anorexics didn’t eat, I did. I felt unworthy of this title as I didn’t have the self control that they had.
In January 2008, when I fell ill with pneumonia, became too weak to walk and lay on a hospital bed with veins too small for IV drugs, my 5 stone 3 lb body refused to rest – I actually struggled to the hospital toilet to try to exercise. It had long gone past the point of me controlling something in my life, this thing was controlling me and it was telling me that I wasn’t a good enough anorexic, that I needed to try harder because others were better at it.
When I was told I wasn’t able to start a training contract at a law firm in London, my resolve to get better was stronger than ever; I wanted a life, not just to exist. I fought to stay out of hospital and fortunately, I was given access to a specialist community nurse, nutritionist and psychologist. With them, I set about on the long road to breaking this addictive cycle, gaining weight and learning to establish some kind of normality around food.
Unfortunately, we live in a society where the media associates healthiness with thinness. Having always denied that body image was a factor in my own case, as I gain more weight and become more womanly I can’t help but compare my body to others. Whilst magazines often criticise those who are too thin, when they constantly bombard us with pictures of airbrushed models and celebrities, it is difficult to remember that often these models are teenagers or these bodies aren’t real; if it’s ok for them to hover at a weight that is on the edge of an anorexic bmi, then why can’t I? If I am told it is ok to eat cake in moderation then confronted with pages devoted to dieting and the best way to lose weight, then how can I equate healthiness with being heavier? Shouldn’t I be detoxing and only eating raw food?
These confusing messages can make us feel guilty and less confident, and they often force both men and women to compare themselves with bodies that aren’t attainable. Beauty is subjective. I found a definition of beauty that said it is ‘the combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and the mind.’ Who said the media could define it and make us feel inadequate for not having the ‘perfect body’? Being beautiful shouldn’t be about being thin; but about feeling happy, healthy and confident.
During the next 5 years, my addiction to strict regimes of exercise and eating provided a constant in my life. Whilst always comparing myself to others and feeling inadequate and stressed at the prospect of messing life up, at least I had the comfort of knowing I was disciplined at exercise and I controlled what I ate.
Inevitably though, I couldn’t always keep up my rigid routines. Often, at night, I would allow myself the food that was forbidden during the day...this always resulted in feeling out of control, followed by the guilt and disgust at myself for being so weak. I wouldn’t feel right again until I had gone to the gym or for a long run...until everything was back ‘in order’. Even as my weight fell below six stone in late 2007, I still had these episodes of ‘bingeing’. Although I had always acknowledged I had a problem, when anorexia was diagnosed this suggestion seemed ridiculous – anorexics didn’t eat, I did. I felt unworthy of this title as I didn’t have the self control that they had.
In January 2008, when I fell ill with pneumonia, became too weak to walk and lay on a hospital bed with veins too small for IV drugs, my 5 stone 3 lb body refused to rest – I actually struggled to the hospital toilet to try to exercise. It had long gone past the point of me controlling something in my life, this thing was controlling me and it was telling me that I wasn’t a good enough anorexic, that I needed to try harder because others were better at it.
When I was told I wasn’t able to start a training contract at a law firm in London, my resolve to get better was stronger than ever; I wanted a life, not just to exist. I fought to stay out of hospital and fortunately, I was given access to a specialist community nurse, nutritionist and psychologist. With them, I set about on the long road to breaking this addictive cycle, gaining weight and learning to establish some kind of normality around food.
Unfortunately, we live in a society where the media associates healthiness with thinness. Having always denied that body image was a factor in my own case, as I gain more weight and become more womanly I can’t help but compare my body to others. Whilst magazines often criticise those who are too thin, when they constantly bombard us with pictures of airbrushed models and celebrities, it is difficult to remember that often these models are teenagers or these bodies aren’t real; if it’s ok for them to hover at a weight that is on the edge of an anorexic bmi, then why can’t I? If I am told it is ok to eat cake in moderation then confronted with pages devoted to dieting and the best way to lose weight, then how can I equate healthiness with being heavier? Shouldn’t I be detoxing and only eating raw food?
These confusing messages can make us feel guilty and less confident, and they often force both men and women to compare themselves with bodies that aren’t attainable. Beauty is subjective. I found a definition of beauty that said it is ‘the combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and the mind.’ Who said the media could define it and make us feel inadequate for not having the ‘perfect body’? Being beautiful shouldn’t be about being thin; but about feeling happy, healthy and confident.
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Blog Christine Pinkard
The next blog in this series in the run up to Eating Disorders Awareness Week is by Christine Pinkard who has recovered from an eating disorders. She is a Young Ambassador for Beat- the charity that provides support and services for those with eating disorders and their carers, and she is a Psychology student at Cardiff University.
Mae'r blog nesaf yn y gyfres yn y cyfnod cyn Wythnos Anhwylderau Bwyta gan Christine Pinkars sydd wedi gwella ar ol cael anhwylder bwyta. Mae hi'n genhadwr ifanc ar gyfer Beat- yr elusen sydd yn rhoi cefnogaeth ac yn darparu gwasanaethau i bobl sydd ag anhwylderau bwyta a'u gwarchodwyr. Mae hi'n astudio Seicoleg ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd ar hyn o bryd.
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I never actually intended to lose weight. It began simply as a resolution to eat more healthily. I was 14, and couldn't stand my natural teenage weight gain.
But within weeks it had spiralled into an obsession. First I cut out anything sugary or fattening from my diet, but gradually I became afraid of eating anything. Each mouthful made me terrified of the weight it would make me put on. Every waking moment was consumed with overriding the hunger pangs. I started to feel freezing cold and exhausted all the time. I could barely concentrate at all and even passed out a few times when no one was around.
Eventually it went too far. I was finally forced to see a GP who diagnosed me with anorexia. An emergency appointment with a psychiatrist followed, during which I was told that at my weight I was at risk of heart failure. My circulation was extremely poor and my hands were blue. It was a huge shock because I genuinely had no idea that I was so thin – my anorexia had convinced me that I was actually larger than most of my friends.
Hospitalisation was mentioned, but my mum and I felt that this wouldn’t be the best option for me, especially since there wasn’t an eating disorders unit in the area. So I was allowed to go home on the condition that I began my weight gain immediately. I wasn’t even allowed to go for a walk because it would use up energy that my body couldn’t spare. This was the beginning of what was to be three years in an outpatient treatment program in the hospital.
I feel that it’s important for people to know that the lowest point of my anorexia was not when I was at my lowest weight. When I reached my (still unhealthily low) target weight I was convinced I was hideously fat. When I looked in the mirror all I could see was a blur of bulges. So I intentionally lost most of the weight I’d worked so hard to gain. I wasn’t trying to be thin or look good. I just wanted to look the same as everyone else.
When I was 17 I had a major turning point. Although the thought of giving up my eating disorder had always terrified me, I realised that it couldn’t be any worse than the past three years had been. I was so tired of leading such a secretive, lonely and painful existence. In the end recovery was a choice that had to come from me.
It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. My anorexia felt almost like a friend and an important part of my identity. But once I’d got to the point where I wanted to change, therapy was really helpful.
It took a long time, but in the end I made it – five years after the onset of my eating disorder I knew I was recovered. I’m now 20 and am at university. I’ve made some lovely friends and am much happier!
But I’m still paying the price for my anorexic years: I have brittle bones and have been diagnosed with a form of osteoporosis. My bone density is the same as that of the average seventy year old.
I’m telling my story to show that eating disorders need to be taken seriously. But with the right help full recovery is possible and is definitely worth fighting for.
Mae'r blog nesaf yn y gyfres yn y cyfnod cyn Wythnos Anhwylderau Bwyta gan Christine Pinkars sydd wedi gwella ar ol cael anhwylder bwyta. Mae hi'n genhadwr ifanc ar gyfer Beat- yr elusen sydd yn rhoi cefnogaeth ac yn darparu gwasanaethau i bobl sydd ag anhwylderau bwyta a'u gwarchodwyr. Mae hi'n astudio Seicoleg ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd ar hyn o bryd.
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I never actually intended to lose weight. It began simply as a resolution to eat more healthily. I was 14, and couldn't stand my natural teenage weight gain.
But within weeks it had spiralled into an obsession. First I cut out anything sugary or fattening from my diet, but gradually I became afraid of eating anything. Each mouthful made me terrified of the weight it would make me put on. Every waking moment was consumed with overriding the hunger pangs. I started to feel freezing cold and exhausted all the time. I could barely concentrate at all and even passed out a few times when no one was around.
Eventually it went too far. I was finally forced to see a GP who diagnosed me with anorexia. An emergency appointment with a psychiatrist followed, during which I was told that at my weight I was at risk of heart failure. My circulation was extremely poor and my hands were blue. It was a huge shock because I genuinely had no idea that I was so thin – my anorexia had convinced me that I was actually larger than most of my friends.
Hospitalisation was mentioned, but my mum and I felt that this wouldn’t be the best option for me, especially since there wasn’t an eating disorders unit in the area. So I was allowed to go home on the condition that I began my weight gain immediately. I wasn’t even allowed to go for a walk because it would use up energy that my body couldn’t spare. This was the beginning of what was to be three years in an outpatient treatment program in the hospital.
I feel that it’s important for people to know that the lowest point of my anorexia was not when I was at my lowest weight. When I reached my (still unhealthily low) target weight I was convinced I was hideously fat. When I looked in the mirror all I could see was a blur of bulges. So I intentionally lost most of the weight I’d worked so hard to gain. I wasn’t trying to be thin or look good. I just wanted to look the same as everyone else.
When I was 17 I had a major turning point. Although the thought of giving up my eating disorder had always terrified me, I realised that it couldn’t be any worse than the past three years had been. I was so tired of leading such a secretive, lonely and painful existence. In the end recovery was a choice that had to come from me.
It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. My anorexia felt almost like a friend and an important part of my identity. But once I’d got to the point where I wanted to change, therapy was really helpful.
It took a long time, but in the end I made it – five years after the onset of my eating disorder I knew I was recovered. I’m now 20 and am at university. I’ve made some lovely friends and am much happier!
But I’m still paying the price for my anorexic years: I have brittle bones and have been diagnosed with a form of osteoporosis. My bone density is the same as that of the average seventy year old.
I’m telling my story to show that eating disorders need to be taken seriously. But with the right help full recovery is possible and is definitely worth fighting for.
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Competition update..../Diweddariad i'r gystadleuaeth
I need to let you know the following details about the competition-
Send High resolution photos (ideally 1.5 - 3MB) to truebeauty09@gmail.com or gwirharddwch09@gmail.com.
Entrants must also send their:
- name
- address
- telephone number
- email address
- one line as to why they have submitted their photo.
If you have posted their photo and want it returning, please include a SAE.
Up to 40 photographs will be selected for display in the exhibition in the Senedd. Cash prizes for winner and 2 runners up.
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Rwyf angen ychwanegu'r manylion canlynol am y gystadleuaeth-
Danfonwch lluniau res uchel (1.5-3MB) i gwirharddwch09@gmail.com
Mae angen i bobl rhoi ei:
-Enw
- Cyfeiriad
- Rhif Ffon
-cyfeiriad ebost
- disgrifiad un llinell o paham maent wedi cymryd y llun
Os ydych yn postio'r llun, ac am ei dderbyn yn ol, plis rhowch SAE yn yr amlen.
Bydd hyd at 40 llun yn cael eu harddangos yn y Senedd. Gwobrau ariannol i'r person cyntaf a dau eraill.
Send High resolution photos (ideally 1.5 - 3MB) to truebeauty09@gmail.com or gwirharddwch09@gmail.com.
Entrants must also send their:
- name
- address
- telephone number
- email address
- one line as to why they have submitted their photo.
If you have posted their photo and want it returning, please include a SAE.
Up to 40 photographs will be selected for display in the exhibition in the Senedd. Cash prizes for winner and 2 runners up.
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Rwyf angen ychwanegu'r manylion canlynol am y gystadleuaeth-
Danfonwch lluniau res uchel (1.5-3MB) i gwirharddwch09@gmail.com
Mae angen i bobl rhoi ei:
-Enw
- Cyfeiriad
- Rhif Ffon
-cyfeiriad ebost
- disgrifiad un llinell o paham maent wedi cymryd y llun
Os ydych yn postio'r llun, ac am ei dderbyn yn ol, plis rhowch SAE yn yr amlen.
Bydd hyd at 40 llun yn cael eu harddangos yn y Senedd. Gwobrau ariannol i'r person cyntaf a dau eraill.
Monday, 12 January 2009
Dr Dai's Blog - a life before recovery...
Here is a first in a series of blogs from people who are affected by eating disorders in Wales. It is from Dr David Samuel, who suffered from anorexia, and who is now a practising Doctor in Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil. He is a member of the cross party group on eating disorders, and is active in his area in raising awareness of eating disorders amognst young people.
Dyma'r blog cyntaf mewn cyfres yn arwain at wythnos anhwylderau bwyta gan bobl sydd yn cael eu heffeithio gan y salwch yng Nghymru. Mae'r un cyntaf yn dod gan Dr David Samuel a oedd yn cael anorexia, ac sydd nawr yn Ddoctor yn ysbyty Tywysog Siarl ym Merthyr Tydfil. Mae e'n aelod o'r grwp trawsbleidiol ar anhwylderau bwyta, ac mae'n gweithio'n galed yn ei ardal i godi ymwybyddiaeth o'r salwch ymysg pobl ifanc.
Every day when I wake up I thank the lord I recovered….. I still cannot believe how lucky I am to be a doctor but also to be free of Anorexia. 4 years of suffering almost killed me and came close to destroying my family. To live a normal life day in day out is often take for granted. Here’s what life used to be like for me before recovery…. Thank goodness these events are now a thing of the past!
Woke up at 6am this morning. When I say wake up, that is when I started my exercises in my bedroom. I had been lying awake for hours before, calculating my calories for the day ahead, planning my intake and exercise for the day ahead.
Counting the calories and steps each day is like breathing. A fundamental necessity to my existence. My mind thinks of nothing else. Not a moment can be spared to think of social events, sport, family or friends. My mind is filled and overflowing with thoughts of my fat, ugly shape, calories and eating and exercise. There is room for my work because I am a failure and must work harder to ensure I pass. To fail at medical school would shatter my life. Life would not be worth living at all then!
My day is safe, My day is set. A routine of the same breakfast, same lunch and salads for tea is easy to follow. How can so many people eat all day. How can they eat chocolates and pies and cakes? This diet is so much easier to follow.
Slowly I can start feeling my ribs and hips poking through my cold, thin, hairless skin. I shiver every second of the day and summer feels like the arctic to me. I am dreading the winter when the fire and heating will have to come back on. The deep, stabbing pain that fills my bones and muscles is unbearable but I now it has to be endured if I am going to stop looking fat. Being fat is worse than shivering and suffering in silence.
Anorexia gives me control. Assignments stress me out. Long hours on the wards take me away from the important things to do in the day – exercise and counting calories. At least it is work and the more I work the less chance there is of failing.
Weekend is on the way. My worst time of the week. Pressure from Mam and Dad to be normal and to go out to the rugby. How can I go and stand on a terrace for hours when there is work to be done. I don’t burn enough calories standing around either. I’d rather just go to the gym, work, exercise, work. Why can’t they leave me alone to do what suits me?
Hungry all day today. Managed to make my porridge last for over 20 minutes by taking small spoonfuls. Added a little bit of water to make it bigger without extra calories. Then I managed to stretch eating lunch until 3:30pm. Chicken noodle soup – 100 calories; yoghurt 50 calories and an apple – 40 calories was pretty average so managed to keep my intake down. I was still striving after though so drank 2 litres of Pepsi through the afternoon. Feeling bloated and sick now. Full of gas and running to the toilet every 15 minutes. This is no life – merely an existence. I feel bloated, tired and useless. I’m craving to eat but that would be a failure and would be letting Rex down!
Dyma'r blog cyntaf mewn cyfres yn arwain at wythnos anhwylderau bwyta gan bobl sydd yn cael eu heffeithio gan y salwch yng Nghymru. Mae'r un cyntaf yn dod gan Dr David Samuel a oedd yn cael anorexia, ac sydd nawr yn Ddoctor yn ysbyty Tywysog Siarl ym Merthyr Tydfil. Mae e'n aelod o'r grwp trawsbleidiol ar anhwylderau bwyta, ac mae'n gweithio'n galed yn ei ardal i godi ymwybyddiaeth o'r salwch ymysg pobl ifanc.
Every day when I wake up I thank the lord I recovered….. I still cannot believe how lucky I am to be a doctor but also to be free of Anorexia. 4 years of suffering almost killed me and came close to destroying my family. To live a normal life day in day out is often take for granted. Here’s what life used to be like for me before recovery…. Thank goodness these events are now a thing of the past!
Woke up at 6am this morning. When I say wake up, that is when I started my exercises in my bedroom. I had been lying awake for hours before, calculating my calories for the day ahead, planning my intake and exercise for the day ahead.
Counting the calories and steps each day is like breathing. A fundamental necessity to my existence. My mind thinks of nothing else. Not a moment can be spared to think of social events, sport, family or friends. My mind is filled and overflowing with thoughts of my fat, ugly shape, calories and eating and exercise. There is room for my work because I am a failure and must work harder to ensure I pass. To fail at medical school would shatter my life. Life would not be worth living at all then!
My day is safe, My day is set. A routine of the same breakfast, same lunch and salads for tea is easy to follow. How can so many people eat all day. How can they eat chocolates and pies and cakes? This diet is so much easier to follow.
Slowly I can start feeling my ribs and hips poking through my cold, thin, hairless skin. I shiver every second of the day and summer feels like the arctic to me. I am dreading the winter when the fire and heating will have to come back on. The deep, stabbing pain that fills my bones and muscles is unbearable but I now it has to be endured if I am going to stop looking fat. Being fat is worse than shivering and suffering in silence.
Anorexia gives me control. Assignments stress me out. Long hours on the wards take me away from the important things to do in the day – exercise and counting calories. At least it is work and the more I work the less chance there is of failing.
Weekend is on the way. My worst time of the week. Pressure from Mam and Dad to be normal and to go out to the rugby. How can I go and stand on a terrace for hours when there is work to be done. I don’t burn enough calories standing around either. I’d rather just go to the gym, work, exercise, work. Why can’t they leave me alone to do what suits me?
Hungry all day today. Managed to make my porridge last for over 20 minutes by taking small spoonfuls. Added a little bit of water to make it bigger without extra calories. Then I managed to stretch eating lunch until 3:30pm. Chicken noodle soup – 100 calories; yoghurt 50 calories and an apple – 40 calories was pretty average so managed to keep my intake down. I was still striving after though so drank 2 litres of Pepsi through the afternoon. Feeling bloated and sick now. Full of gas and running to the toilet every 15 minutes. This is no life – merely an existence. I feel bloated, tired and useless. I’m craving to eat but that would be a failure and would be letting Rex down!
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Cystadleuaeth Gwir Harddwch
Helo, a chroeso i flog Ymwybyddiaeth Anhwylderau Bwyta Cymru. Prif pwrpas y blog yw i farcio Wythnos Anhwylderau Bwyta yng Nghymru 2008 sydd yn digwydd rhwng y 23 i'r 28 o Chwefror. Mae'r grwp trawsbleidiol ar anhwylderau bwyta, gyda nodd gan Dove Self Esteem yn lansio cystadleuaeth sy'n gwahodd aelodau o'r cyhoedd i gyflwyno lluniau o'r hyn y maent yn ystyried i fod yn wir harddwch er mwyn herio'r pwysau ar bobl i ymuno â'r diwylliant 'maint sero' sy'n arwain at lawer o anhwylderau bwyta.
Ar y blog yma byddem yn datgelu pwy yw beirniaid gwadd y gystadleuaeth, a blogs gan bobl sydd ag anhwylder bwyta, sydd wedi gwella, pobl sydd yn gweithio yn y sector a mwy....
Dyma manylion y gystadleuaeth isod. Os oes gennych chi unrhyw gwestiwn, plis ebostiwch y cyswllt ar y blog neu bethan.jenkins@wales.gov.uk. Gallwch rhoi eich lluniau yn syth ar y safle flickr fan ar www.flickr.com/groups/truebeauty_gwirharddwch/
Bydd digwyddiad i wobrwyo'r goreuon yn y Senedd ar y 25 o Chwefror at 6 yr hwyr, felly cofiwch cadw'r dyddiad yn rhydd!
Pob lwc gyda'r gystadleuaeth....
Dyddiadau Allweddol:
Cystadleuaeth yn agor Dydd Iau yr 8fed o Ionawr 2009.
Cystadleuaeth yn cau Dydd Llun 16eg Chwefror 2009.
Bydd yr arddangosfa yn y Senedd Ddydd Mercher 25ain Chwefror o 10.30yb.
Cyhoeddir yr enillwyr am 6 yr hwyr yn y Senedd.
Manylion y Gystadleuaeth:
Gall cystadleuwyr bostio llun (maint A3) gyda'u syniad o beth yw “wir harddwch” at Bethan Jenkins AC, Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru, Caerdydd, CF99 1NA.
Gellir e-bostio lluniau i truebeauty09@gmail.com neu gwirharddwch09@gmail.com.
Detholir 40 o luniau i'w harddangos yn y Senedd.
Bydd y cyhoedd a phanel o feirniaid yn dewis lluniau y maent yn meddwl eu bod yn cynrychioli “gwir harddwch” mewn ffordd greadigol, bersonol a chwilfrydig.
Termau ac amodau: Dylai pob llun gynnwys person; hawliau i ddefnyddio'r 40 o luniau a arddangosir mewn deunydd cyhoeddusrwydd; ni dderbynnir cyfrifoldeb am niwed neu golled; dim ond un llun y person; rhaid i'r llun fod wedi'i thynnu yn y 12 mis diwethaf, Rhaid i'r person yn y llun fod yn 16 neu'n hŷn.
Ar y blog yma byddem yn datgelu pwy yw beirniaid gwadd y gystadleuaeth, a blogs gan bobl sydd ag anhwylder bwyta, sydd wedi gwella, pobl sydd yn gweithio yn y sector a mwy....
Dyma manylion y gystadleuaeth isod. Os oes gennych chi unrhyw gwestiwn, plis ebostiwch y cyswllt ar y blog neu bethan.jenkins@wales.gov.uk. Gallwch rhoi eich lluniau yn syth ar y safle flickr fan ar www.flickr.com/groups/truebeauty_gwirharddwch/
Bydd digwyddiad i wobrwyo'r goreuon yn y Senedd ar y 25 o Chwefror at 6 yr hwyr, felly cofiwch cadw'r dyddiad yn rhydd!
Pob lwc gyda'r gystadleuaeth....
Dyddiadau Allweddol:
Cystadleuaeth yn agor Dydd Iau yr 8fed o Ionawr 2009.
Cystadleuaeth yn cau Dydd Llun 16eg Chwefror 2009.
Bydd yr arddangosfa yn y Senedd Ddydd Mercher 25ain Chwefror o 10.30yb.
Cyhoeddir yr enillwyr am 6 yr hwyr yn y Senedd.
Manylion y Gystadleuaeth:
Gall cystadleuwyr bostio llun (maint A3) gyda'u syniad o beth yw “wir harddwch” at Bethan Jenkins AC, Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru, Caerdydd, CF99 1NA.
Gellir e-bostio lluniau i truebeauty09@gmail.com neu gwirharddwch09@gmail.com.
Detholir 40 o luniau i'w harddangos yn y Senedd.
Bydd y cyhoedd a phanel o feirniaid yn dewis lluniau y maent yn meddwl eu bod yn cynrychioli “gwir harddwch” mewn ffordd greadigol, bersonol a chwilfrydig.
Termau ac amodau: Dylai pob llun gynnwys person; hawliau i ddefnyddio'r 40 o luniau a arddangosir mewn deunydd cyhoeddusrwydd; ni dderbynnir cyfrifoldeb am niwed neu golled; dim ond un llun y person; rhaid i'r llun fod wedi'i thynnu yn y 12 mis diwethaf, Rhaid i'r person yn y llun fod yn 16 neu'n hŷn.
True Beauty Competition
Hello, and welcome to the blog Eating Disorders Awareness Wales. The main purpose of this blog is to mark Eating Disoders Awareness Week 2008 in Wales, which is between the 23rd and 28th of February. The cross party group on eating disorders, with sponsorship from Dove Self Esteem has launched a competition for members of the public to submit pictures of what they consider to be real beauty in order to challenge the pressures on people to join the size-zero culture that leads many to eating disorders.
On this blog, we will reveal who the judges for the competition will be, and publish blogs from those who have suffered from an eating disorder in Wales, past sufferers, and those who work in the field. You can also upload your pictures on our flickr group page flickr.com/groups/truebeauty_gwirharddwch/
The details of the competition are below. If you have a question the email contact is to the side of this post, or email bethan.jenkins@wales.gov.uk.
There will be an event on the 25th of February at 6pm in the Senedd to reveal the winnnig pictures, so keep that date free!
Good luck with the competition......
Key Dates:
Competition opens on Thursday the 8th of January 2009.
Competition closes on Monday 16th February 2009.
Display will be in the Senedd building on Wednesday 25th February from 10.30am.
Winners will be announced at 6pm in the Senedd building.
Competition details:
Entrants can post a photo (A3 size) with their idea as to what is “true beauty” to Bethan Jenkins AM, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff, CF99 1NA.
Photos can be emailed to truebeauty09@gmail.com or gwirharddwch09@gmail.com.
40 photographs will be selected for display in the exhibition in the Senedd.
The public and a judging panel will select which photos they think best represent “true beauty” in an intriguing, personal and creative way.
There will be a prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd position sponsored by Dove Self Esteem.
Terms & conditions:
each photo should include a person; rights to use 40 exhibited photos in publicity; no responsibility accepted for damage or loss; only 1 submission per person; photo must have been taken in the last 12 months, it may be sent on jpg format or via post to Bethan Jenkins, 75, Briton Ferry Road, Neath, SA11 1AR , person photographed must be 16 or over and consent to the display or other publication of the photographs in connection with this competition. Other than the prizes relating to the competition, no payment will be made either to the photographer or the subject of the photo.
On this blog, we will reveal who the judges for the competition will be, and publish blogs from those who have suffered from an eating disorder in Wales, past sufferers, and those who work in the field. You can also upload your pictures on our flickr group page flickr.com/groups/truebeauty_gwirharddwch/
The details of the competition are below. If you have a question the email contact is to the side of this post, or email bethan.jenkins@wales.gov.uk.
There will be an event on the 25th of February at 6pm in the Senedd to reveal the winnnig pictures, so keep that date free!
Good luck with the competition......
Key Dates:
Competition opens on Thursday the 8th of January 2009.
Competition closes on Monday 16th February 2009.
Display will be in the Senedd building on Wednesday 25th February from 10.30am.
Winners will be announced at 6pm in the Senedd building.
Competition details:
Entrants can post a photo (A3 size) with their idea as to what is “true beauty” to Bethan Jenkins AM, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff, CF99 1NA.
Photos can be emailed to truebeauty09@gmail.com or gwirharddwch09@gmail.com.
40 photographs will be selected for display in the exhibition in the Senedd.
The public and a judging panel will select which photos they think best represent “true beauty” in an intriguing, personal and creative way.
There will be a prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd position sponsored by Dove Self Esteem.
Terms & conditions:
each photo should include a person; rights to use 40 exhibited photos in publicity; no responsibility accepted for damage or loss; only 1 submission per person; photo must have been taken in the last 12 months, it may be sent on jpg format or via post to Bethan Jenkins, 75, Briton Ferry Road, Neath, SA11 1AR , person photographed must be 16 or over and consent to the display or other publication of the photographs in connection with this competition. Other than the prizes relating to the competition, no payment will be made either to the photographer or the subject of the photo.
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