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Friday Q & A – Everytime I smoke Pot, I binge eat- Help!

Leora Fulvio October 29, 2011

Question: Everytime I smoke pot, I binge eat. I really wish that I didn’t, is there something I can do to prevent this? Answer: Your brain contains cannabinoid receptors, which are specialized proteins that react to particular stimuli to produce results such as pleasure, pain relief, and hunger. The THC in marijuana is the number one stimuli that acts on cannabinoid receptors. Your body produces endogenous cannabinoids, receptors inside your body which send a signal to your brain that it’s

Another Study about Why Diets Don’t Work

Leora Fulvio October 27, 2011

This article,Why Dieter’s Tend to Regain Weight showed up in yesterday’s LA Times. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has proven that certain hormones stay active in dieters to keep them exceedingly hungry for at least a year after weight loss has been achieved. 500 people were put on a very low calorie diet. After a year, most of the dieters had a rebound in weight gain. ” 52 weeks after subjects had completed their crash

Friday Q&A- My husband doesn’t know I have an Eating Disorder, what should I do?

Leora Fulvio October 21, 2011

Question: I’m 34 years old and have been suffering with bulimia on and off since I was 18 years old. I’ve been married for the past 7 years and we have two kids, my husband doesn’t know that I binge and purge. I am really good at hiding the evidence. I can go weeks sometimes months, and in one case over a year without bingeing and purging. I’m afraid that if my husband knew he would look at me differently,

How To Stop Binge Eating? – Top 20 Ways to Stop Binge Eating

Leora Fulvio October 17, 2011

Quick Tips on How to Stop Binge Eating Here is a quick little round up of different tips on how to stop binge eating and how to heal from binge eating disorder. Several of these tips are longer posts in other parts on this blog, so you can bookmark this page and come back and read more when you are ready or just go through the tips quickly. Enjoy! 1.)Eat a balanced, healthy breakfast with protein every morning. Starting your

How to Be More Patient

Leora Fulvio October 11, 2011

What even is patience? We spend so much time quoting the virtues of patience, yet most of us find ourselves extremely impatient. According to wikipedia, patience is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, and is studied as a decision making problem, involving the choice of either a small reward in the short term, or a more valuable reward in the long term. When given a choice, all animals, humans included, are inclined to favour short term rewards over long

Hypnosis for Binge Eating

Leora Fulvio October 6, 2011

Download Hypnosis to Stop Binge Eating As a therapist who also utilizes hypnotherapy in my practice, I often receive phone calls for people wanting hypnotherapy to help cure their binge eating. Many people want long term Psychotherapy to understand and heal the family dynamics and past wounds that contributed to self esteem issues, binge eating issues, or eating disorder issues. I find this kind of work to be very valuable and I

Would You Rather Be a Mermaid or a Whale?

Leora Fulvio October 5, 2011

via: Delphine Fieberg on Facebook the photo is French model Tara Lynn A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was “This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?” The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way: “Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children

How do Deal with People Who Trigger your Issues

Leora Fulvio October 1, 2011

One of the really challenging things about recovery is being out in the real world, around other people who either aren’t aware of or working on healing their disorder, or who don’t actually have a problem with the behaviors that you must stay abstinent from. Some examples: A bunch of people (presumably men) get together for a bachelor party and, as is traditional with American bachelor parties, they go to a strip club. But let’s say one of those men

How to Squash your Inner Critic

Leora Fulvio September 15, 2011

You know those voices that pop into your head and tell you that you’re fat, that you need to lose weight, that you’ve eaten too much, that you’re ugly, stupid, boring, or whatever? A lot of people with eating issues suffer with these voices. They hear them and believe that the voices are right. They get sucked into them. But you don’t have to engage with those voices. When you hear them, rather than listening to them and believing

How to Cope with Hurt Feelings

Leora Fulvio August 16, 2011

Do you ever eat when you have hurt feelings? Do you find yourself in the middle of a binge or emotionally eating? Do you ever come home or get off the phone with someone, and feeling sad and lonely, stressed or anxious, angry or overwhelmed, walk over to the refrigerator and unconsciously start eating until you feel badly about that instead of what you had originally felt bad about? Dealing with hurt feelings through emotional eating is one of

Taking Care of Your Inner Child

Leora Fulvio July 21, 2011

Your eating disorder might feel like a tyrannical dictator, telling you what to eat, what not to eat, pushing you to give in to obsessive cravings, pushing you to purge, pushing you to starve or restrict, but for many people, that voice is actually a scared little girl (or boy) living inside of you, dressed in adult clothing, trying desperately to get their needs met. Often, in eating disorders, there is a child inside of you who didn’t get

Practicing Slowing Down– How to start mindful eating

Leora Fulvio July 12, 2011

One of the easiest exercises that you can you do to help you let go of binge eating is practicing mindful eating. The first step in eating mindfully is to slow down. When you serve yourself a meal, don’t pick or snack until you are sitting down with your plate in front of you. Then, when you go to eat, pay attention to your food. Don’t eat in front of the TV or internet, notice each bite. Notice what it

How to Talk to a Loved One with an Eating Disorder

Leora Fulvio July 5, 2011

Watching someone that you love being active in their eating disorder is devastating. It’s so painful to watch your mother, sister, wife or girlfriend (or husband, father, brother or son) either restrict their food, or binge on foods that are unhealthy for them, or to know that they’re purging in the bathroom after they’ve eaten. It’s painful and upsetting and scary. You might find yourself becoming very angry at the person whom you love when you see them taking

I regret eating that… dealing with food regret

Leora Fulvio June 27, 2011

“You’ll never regret the things you do; only the things you don’t.” This quote doesn’t necessarily work with food though, does it? With food, you won’t necessarily regret the food that you pass up, but the food that you choose to eat, the binge that you choose to have might lead to some regrets. I began thinking about this over the weekend. I was out to lunch with some friends, including a dear friend of mine who continues to struggle

Friday Q & A– I can’t stop dieting– I just want to be a normal teenager

Leora Fulvio June 24, 2011

Question: Hi, I’m a 16-year-old Asian who’s had an eating disorder for almost one year. When I was as young as 13 I was already at a weight of 60kg/132lbs. I began feeling more insecure about my body after that so I went on a diet and lost 10kg/22lbs. But as days go by there’s always a voice in my mind that says I don’t look good enough and there’s always that big stomach of mine underneath my clothes.

It Gets Better

Leora Fulvio June 15, 2011

Image taken from JenVenegas.com I think that one of the very challenging things about eating disorder recovery are all the thoughts that come with the behavior. Most often in EDs, the thoughts come first, ie: “I’m not pretty enough, I’m not smart enough, I’m not good enough, I’m not special enough, I’m not thin enough…” and dieting seems like a solution to these problems. Dieting of course then leads to bingeing leads to starving leads to bingeing leads to purging

Add something

Leora Fulvio June 7, 2011

Often, in attempts to quit binge eating, people will set up a rule structure for themselves such as “I can’t eat sugar anymore, I can’t ever eat white flour, I can’t eat gluten…” etc. However, more often that not, those foods that they restrict themselves are the foods they wind up bingeing on. Rather than attempting to control the binge by taking something away, try to add something. For instance, “I will eat a vegetable with every meal and a

Do One Nice Thing for yourself– RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!

Leora Fulvio June 4, 2011

What nurturing non-food related thing can you do for yourself at this moment? You deserve to be cared for and if you don’t take it upon yourself to take care of yourself, you just might wind up using food to fulfill that need. Here are some things that you can do right now. 1.)Rub nice smelling lotion into your feet and paint your toenails. 2.)Make yourself a cup of tea and drink it slowly while gazing out the window. 3.)Look

One Daily Intention

Leora Fulvio May 31, 2011

Here’s a quick recovery exercise for you. Rather than thinking about weeks or months or years ahead of you, each morning set just ONE DAILY INTENTION. Wake up in the morning and before you do anything, before you get out of bed, before you brush your teeth, think about what your intention for that day is. Just choose one. Think about it, visualize it, see yourself achieving it and hold onto it for the day. Ideas for daily intentions. I

Friday – Q&A- I can’t stop fantasizing about food

Leora Fulvio May 27, 2011

This comes from a reader who would prefer to remain anonymous: Question- I wondered if you could give me some advice. Sometimes when I feel distressed or tired, I find myself having food fantasies. They are very intense and vivid where I imagine myself eating high-calorie food like cake and other sweet, fatty, high-carb foods. I imagine the taste and the pleasure it would give me. I’m not sure what to do when I have these fantasies because they make

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