One of my favorite songs by Paul McCartney is “Let it be”, it actually was inspired by a dream he had about his mother who died of cancer when he was a teenager. Paul was going through a rough patch with the Beatles at the time and her exact words to him in his dream where “it will [...]
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ATHLETES AND EATING DISORDERS…BALANCING ON BONES
The anticipation of the summer Olympic games in London has been growing for quite sometime. There is something about them that just screams USA, and as a country is makes us stand a little taller, and root for all those who sport the Red, White, and Blue. One of the events I have been [...]
ANOREXIA RECOVERY….YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT…ANYTHING YOU DO OR DO NOT EAT WILL BE HELD AGAINST YOU.
When you don’t have an Eating Disorder the relationship you have with food is more intuitive. You go more your stomach’s instinct…if it tells you it’s hungry you feed it, if it tells you you’re full you stop. Basically if you lead a pretty normal lifestyle it’s probably your friend. If you are extremely busy it’s probably more [...]
EATING DISORDER RECOVERY—-WHEN ARE YOU JUST GOING TO HAVE SOME FUN?
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? [...]
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.