The very best way to lose five pounds in two days is to make a decision to take two whole days to stop dieting and chose to eat very slowly, very mindfully, and very intuitively, giving your body exactly what it needs to thrive. I know that quitting dieting to get to a healthy weight […]
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A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times posted an article about brides going to extremes to lose weight before their weddings. One doctor charges healthy women $1500 to insert a feeding tubes in their noses for ten days so that they can receive nutrition while they starve themselves to knock off a few
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From around the web, different wonderful resources to help you with eating and body image issues. 1.) Recovery Warriors – Wonderful Pro recovery site with podcasts, resources, and online directory of Eating Disorder professionals. 2.) ED Referral – Not all therapists know how to treat eating disorders, and not all know how to recognize binge eating disorder.
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What exactly happens when you go to therapy to heal from an eating disorder? What is therapy anyway? This is the first of a series about different levels of treatment. Unfortunately, most people who suffer from eating disorders don’t get treatment, either because they don’t have the money, the time or they feel that they
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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This question comes to us from Chloe in Manhattan. Q. I’m not sure what I should do here. There is this guy at my office, and he’s always stealing food from out of the refrigerator. He has stolen my lunch more than once, and I know it’s him because I’ve walked into the kitchen and caught
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This is a more personal post, but a story that I think is important to tell. My Mom was an amazing woman. She was smart, beautiful, kind, and cared about everyone she came into contact with. She was a dedicated junior high school teacher in the South Bronx in New York City and spent an