If you have ever been really hungry at some point in your life, irritable, and miserable? Chances are you were on some sort of diet. One day you looked in the mirror and your thighs, your abs, your ass decided to gang up on your brain and put a truncate on any kind of regular [...]
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SURVIVING AN EATING DISORDER….DOES THIS BLOG MAKE ME LOOK FAT?
If somebody handed you something to really yummy looking to drink, but then told you the name of it was Cancer, how quickly would you be to drink it? It’s not that the drink is actually cancer, but just associating it with a deadly disease could make it far from appetizing. This is how I [...]
SURVIVING AN EATING DISORDER…..DAMAGED GOODS
I remember the day I checked out of a major hospital in New York. I had been there for a year under the care of a prominent and famous doctor who treats eating disorders. I had been re-feeding for almost 350 days, half of them with the help of a feeding tube. As these nurses, [...]
Anorexia Treatment: As I Lay Dying…
It was mid afternoon, I think. Although at the time I probably didn’t even know what time of day it was. I know it wasn’t late night though, because if it was, I would have been in the middle of a binge, hiding away from the sun, waiting til most of the world was asleep [...]
EATING DISORDER RECOVERY…..LEAN ON ME
You are at the mall, and you just can’t help and not keep your eyes fixed at the woman walking towards you. She is alarmingly thin, and it is causing not only you to stare, but everyone else around you as well. Her bones are protruding through her thin sweater, and her legs resemble two [...]
Eating Disorder (ED) Blog: Seventeen + BMI = Bad Math
When struggling with an eating disorder, numbers can feel like your enemies. It can seem that everywhere you look numbers are taunting you, judging you and diminishing your self-image. Whether it’s the number of calories in the sandwich you just ate or the number on the scale, the mental arithmetic never seems to add up [...]
ANOREXIA RECOVERY: I WANT TO FEED YOU A SANDWICH, BUT DON’T KNOW WERE TO BUY SOME BREAD
I got a call from my roommate the other night at around 7 p.m. His words were frantic, desperate, and worried. “Mel you have to come down to my gym in Malibu, please…there is this girl here, she’s been on the elliptical for 2 hours, she looks like a skeleton, please come down here and [...]
THINSPIRATION AND ANOREXIA….THE BONE COLLECTORS
Valeria Levitin is one popular 39-year-old woman. You might not know who she is, but thousands of young girls look up to her as their role model. No, she is not a famous actress, singer, athlete, or humanitarian.Valeria is know to be the skinniest woman in the world, due to her extreme Anorexia. Pro Ana [...]
EATING DISORDERS BEHAVIOR…..STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS
Eating Disorders Behavior: Water Water is one of life’s most essential elements. The average person is told to drink 8 fluid ounces of water a day for optimum health. Athletes, of course, require double that if not more. Without water our bodies would not be able to survive. However, what you probably didn’t know is [...]
INTUITIVE EATING AND EATING DISORDERS: I WANT CANDY!
Remember when you were a kid and food was just food? Remember when you would eat when you were hungry and stop when you were full? Eating the whole piece of cake was never a big deal, and sometimes you left half on the plate. Sometimes you would want an apple instead of a cookie. [...]