Have you ever wanted “to eat” so badly that rather than heating food up, you have stood in front of the refrigerator eating it cold? Have you ever been standing at your kitchen counter pounding a fork into a frozen cheesecake, even though you could have waited for it to thaw until the next […]
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I know that I have a huge backlog of questions to answer and you’ll forgive me that I pushed this one to the front. I so rarely get parenting questions and I forget how important they really are. Question: After many, many years of struggle, I am finally trying to seriously recover from my binge eating
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Question: My name is Elizabeth. I am from Australia and have been struggling with binge eating just over 6 months now. It started when I competed as a Fitness Model– I was on a very restrictive diet and was allowed “cheat meals” once per week- these cheat meals became binges. After my comp the cheat
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Question: I’ve been trying to be on a diet under 1200 calories a day so that I can look good during my graduation which is two weeks away. For the past few weeks I’ve been exercising on an average of four days a week and trying to keep my calorie intake in check. But this
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For the next several posts, I’ll be playing catch-up with Q&As. It’s not Friday, but here’s your Q & A! Question: This comes to us from a reader named Maureen. Hello, I came across your blog when, after succumbing to yet another binge episode, I took to the internet in the hopes of finding some
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Binge eating and binge drinking at the airport is extremely common. Long airport layovers are recipes for compulsive behavior because: Traveling is stressful and binge eating is a stress relief You are bored and it’s a way to fight boredom Although you are traveling among several thousands of people, if you are traveling alone, you are
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Just a note, I’m working through my backlog of questions. If you’ve emailed me a question and haven’t heard back, please don’t think I’m ignoring you… I’ll get to it! Hi, I have been binge eating for a good 10 years and my weight has fluctuated up and down about 10kgs. I know that
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Question: Hi, I stumbled upon your website and figured I’d shoot you an email. I’m 24, and my relationship with food is absolutely horrific. I find that for several months I can stick to an eating plan (such as weight watchers) get down to a normal weight for myself, become incredibly happy, until I fall
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Question: Hi there, I’m a 20 y.o. girl and I’m on the heels of a Thanksgiving binge. It makes me feel a lot like I’ve failed; I know I went into this holiday hoping to lose a couple pounds (I’m at the highest I’ve ever weighed), and this slip-up makes me feel really bad about
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Now that the holidays are rolling around, all day binges start to happen. You know how it goes, you’ve woken up with the best intentions. You get your coffee and then you spy the box of Christmas cookies on top of the refrigerator. You grab two to dip in your coffee. Then another, then another.
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