When was the last time you let loose? When was the last time you let your hair down? When was the last time you went on a road-trip? When was the last time you painted you toes red or wore a sexy little black dress? When was the last time you baked something for just you? [...]
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ANOREXIA TREATMENT….WHO ATE IT LESS?
Forget football, baseball, arm wrestling, or loud bodily function noises contests, when it comes to competition,men have nothing on women. Honestly if any heterosexual men even had a clue what it was like to have that extra X chromosome they would be wearing high heels, getting botox, and having the fat sucked out of their thighs on a daily basis. They would [...]
EATING DISORDERS TREATMENT: JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE LOST DOES NOT MEAN YOU WANT TO BE FOUND.
Anorexia is Everywhere Every morning I see her at my local Starbucks near my office. Amidst the morning chatter of business talk, coffee grinding, and sugar packets being opened, I see her standing at the counter waiting for a refill on her Venti. “Straight black please”, she firmly says, as if the barristas already don’t [...]
SCALES ARE FOR FISH!! | Fighting Weight Obsession
I used to get up in the morning to get on the scale, and wouldn’t go to bed at night until I did the same. That’s not including the 40 or 50 times a day in between I used to step “on” and “off” of it. Sometimes I would be so paranoid that the number [...]
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE | Anger and Weight Obsession
I spent my whole life surrounded by anger. My mother was angry at my father; my father was angry at my mother. For three years I lived with a Stepfather who took his rage out on me with his words and with his fists. As a teenager, I was angry at my mother for not [...]
Talk To The Face, Because The Mind Ain’t Listening
I was talking to a patient the other day in my office. I listened to her for about an hour go on and on about what she had eaten for lunch, how much she had eaten for breakfast, what she was going to eat for dinner, and how many calories that was. Then she segwayed [...]
Build A Bridge, And Get Over It
The one thing that people seem to be most interested in and curious is how I was able to survive such a terrible and devastating disease as anorexia and bulimia, and how I have managed to maintain my recovery. I know everybody is looking for that magic answer, trying to tap into it, and sometimes it makes me feel like the Oracle from the Matrix. They stare at me holding their breath just kind of waiting for me to give them the key to the door they have been trying to unlock for so long.
To Eat Or Not To Eat: Table for Two?
Recovering from Anorexia is crazy hard, and being 16 and having “Mommy issues” is even harder. Getting pregnant on top of all of that? Well, let’s just say most people would consider that a nightmare. Unfortunately for Kayla Jackson that nightmare is a living reality. The hardest part about an eating disorder is that your drug of choice is NOT something you can avoid. We all need to eat to stay alive, but what if you also have to eat to let another person live?
‘Til Death Or Eating Disorder Do Us Part
To find someone you love is quite lucky. To find somebody you want to walk down the aisle with and spend the rest of your life with is even better. Marriage has its challenges, ask any of my married friends. The Statistics say that fifty percent of marriages now end in divorce. The reasons are pretty much across the board with the obvious ones being infidelity, finances, and boredom. However there is a hidden reason that marriages can also crumble…
Reality TV: Addicted to Food on OWN
So if anybody knows what it is like to be on national TV with your whole eating disorder being exposed, it is I. I have blogged many times on it, and have pretty strong opinions when it comes to anybody and their pain being told to the whole entire world. In 2004, when I was given the opportunity to appear on a national talk show to share my story, it was half out of desperation and half out of the dazzle and bedazzle that…