So much to discuss this week in Eating Disorder News – Yoplait launches a commercial that has sparked a lot of controversy in claims that it promotes eating disorders, watch the video here and decide for yourself. Housewife of Orange County Alexis Ballino talks about her lifelong struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia. Weightloss Surgery for Teens on the rise. Find out the latest statistics on teens receiving Lapband and other bariatric surgery procedures.
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You Can Take The Addict Out Of Life, But You Can’t Take The Life Out Of The Addict
So what happens when Eight people with eating disorders head to a rural Texas treatment center to undergo an intense 42-day program with therapist Tennie McCarty. McCarty uses a tough-love approach and unorthodox methods to help her patients overcome their disorders? DRAMA, DRAMA and wait for it…
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?
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…
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…
The Real Housewives
I must admit as an educated and fairly cultured young women I have to admit I have an addiction. I don’t think it is the kind to be cured in rehab. If they put us in rehab I think the problem would get worse. My problem is reality tv. I can’t get enough. And when I can, I can’t stop watching!
Bridalplasty- PLEASE BOYCOTT
There is a new show coming out called Bridalplasty, I don’t know the network because I am so disgusted I just started blogging about it. The premise of the show is 12 brides to be come on and compete to win the plastic surgery of their dreams in time for their wedding. Yup, you heard it right. 12 women are now competing to get fixed surgically.
“What’s Eating You?” Episode 3 on E! Television
Episode 3 begins with Gaby, age 23. Gaby has an identical twin sister who is pregnant with a toddler and fiancé. Gaby admits to bingeing and purging up to ten times per day. She weighs less than an African refugee victim. And if she isn’t bingeing and purging she is just laying on her bed.