I have never been a big breakfast eater. I guess growing up I would have rather slept in to sacrifice the extra few minutes it would have taken to eat a bowl of cereal and in high school I was more concerned about getting ready then I was to eat a piece of toast. [...]
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BULIMIA…PAYING HOMAGE TO THE PORCELAIN GOD
Growing up, I had never heard of Eating Disorders. The first time I had ever even heard of anorexia or bulimia was in health class. We had to watch this Lifetime movie of the week kind of thing starring Calista Flockhart. I was a little disturbed watching her play this girl who would eat, throw [...]
Eating Disorder Symptoms: College Stress and Bulimia Nervosa
Going to college can be an exciting time for young women. Time away from their family gives them a chance to forge an identity that is uniquely their own. College can be a time to make new friends and enjoy new experiences. However, the transition from living at home during high school to living more [...]
Drunkorexia: Drink Me Don’t Eat Me
There is a new trend on the rise, and it’s a pretty scary one. It’s most commonly found on college campuses and it’s becoming more and more popular especially among young females. I’m talking about “Drunkorexia.” Drunkorexia is basically a mix of starvation with binge drinking. You don’t eat so you can compensate the calories of the alcohol you [...]
Back to School: Do Colleges Create Food Addicts and Trigger Eating Disorders?
Nearly every student going away to college has heard of the infamous, so-called “Freshman 15.” This term came into existence due to incoming freshman’s tendency to gain weight. What is often not discussed is that anxiety over the freshman 15 can often trigger eating disorders. There’s not one reason why students tend to gain weight [...]
More Men in Need of Binge Eating Disorders Treatment Resources
It’s estimated that 8 million men and women in the U.S. struggle with binge eating disorder. This disorder, which can be defined as a feeling of losing control and consuming large amounts of food without purging, affects a different demographic than other eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Most notably, while only around 10% of [...]
BULIMIA TREATMENT: WILD HORSES CAN BE TAMED AND SO CAN WILD EATING DISORDERS
The problem with marinating in an Eating Disorder for half of my life is that separating the crazy and impulsive, self sabotaging, destructive part of me from the healthy, stable, calm cool and collected has taken a lot of hard work and focus. Don’t get me wrong, I certainly don’t think I am a [...]
Addicted to Food: Is Dr. Oz’s “Fat-urday” Diet Plan Dangerous for Compulsive Overeaters?
Television personality Dr. Oz has suggested that viewers who are trying to lose weight adopt a single day of indulgence in which they eat anything they want. He calls this the “Fat-urday” diet plan. Yet Dr. Oz’s plan does not take into account that for many people food is an addiction, much like cigarettes, alcohol [...]
RECOVERING FROM AN EATING DISORDER….PUSHING OUT OF HELL, AND PEDALING THE WAY BACK TO POWERFUL.
Sometimes I get really tired of bad news. I get really tired of talking about all the negative things when it comes to Eating Disorders. Thing is I am a firm believer that a lot of times all that sourness, and bitterness, darkness, and sadness can be turned into something positive. I get asked [...]
RECOVERY FROM AN EATING DISORDER….I CAN’T GET NO “SATISFACTION”
Ever since Eve was forbidden to have the apple, woman have had a problem being told they couldn’t eat something. There is something about being told we can’t have what we desire that just makes us desire it more. I believe that being denied something can lead to obsessing about it, especially when it is something that [...]