Food Obsession Have you ever wasted a day of your life asking somebody “do these jeans make me look fat?”, and not even hearing what they said because you didn’t believe them? Have you ever wasted a birthday refusing a piece of cake by saying “no thanks, I am on a diet” and then satisfying yourself with a [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Sticks And Stones Could Give You Bones
I spent the majority of my life being judged. It started in kindergarten, when another little girl I was playing with on the playground told me that my dress didn’t twirl as much as hers did. She told me because of that, I couldn’t play with her and her friends anymore. I stared down at my recently purchased “baby blue striped frock” and, what was the most “superior dress” in the world to me that morning…
Love Is Blind, And He’s Pretty Darn Stupid Too
I often told myself that the hardest thing I ever had to go through was battling my eating disorder, which is in its entirety has got to be the absolute truth. That being said, holding a very close second to that would be the act of falling in love, and then having the person you have fallen in love with break your heart. When it comes to Love I am what you would call a very late bloomer, in that I was in love with one thing for seventeen years…
Run for Cover!! Part II
In my last blog I had written about my weakness as well as a lot of other peoples’ obsession for celebrities, what they are doing, where they are going, and how we just cannot seem to get enough of them. I also believe that part of that reason is our own need for escape from the mundane, and that…
Run for Cover!!
I have a sincere confession to make: Hello my name is Melissa and I am an out of the closet issue addict. And, when I say this, I mean I am addicted to the latest ‘issue’ on anything. I read Cosmo like it’s the Bible, and I load up on the latest printed eye candy like it is a drug. I love anything on fashion, celebrities, and gossip…
Don’t believe the Hype!
Her beauty is plastered across the front of any magazine, billboard, or commercial screen. She is thin, beautiful, polished, not one zit, not one blemish, not one single flaw. She must be happy, she must have the best life, and she must not have a care in the world.
Eating Disorders in the Media
There is no doubt that televised and print media promote imagery of unrealistically thin supermodels and celebrities, but it would be simplistic and inaccurate to suggest that this is a cause for eating disorders. For a number of individuals at risk of developing eating disorders exposure to these images…