Have you ever been “that girl” who was so in love with “that boy…” the one who you were going to marry and make babies with? You loved him so much that you thought of him all the time. You couldn’t stop talking about him… you checked your phone constantly to see if he’d texted you. And […]
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The problem is, intuitive eating has been co-opted as another weight loss method. And if you are still focused on losing weight, your stress about diets, weight loss and changing your body are going to continue to nag at you.
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There are a lot of “nutrition experts” out there. Everyone fancies themselves a nutrition guru. I see these folks all over the Internet, amateur nutritionologists- they give weight loss advice, they tell people what to include in their diets and what they should absolutely NEVER eat. But here’s the thing. They’re not really nutrition experts.
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(Trigger warning- weight, BMI and numbers discussed here) When someone over the Internet promises you that they can help you lose weight, click away. Click FAR, FAR AWAY! There is not one person who can guarantee you weight loss. Do you know why? Because they don’t know you and they’ve never seen you and they
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Have you ever gone online to find out how many calories you should be eating to lose a certain amount of weight and the calculator spits out something like “you should be eating 1200 calories a day to lose 10 pounds by… ” whenever? The fact that a 1200 calorie per day diet is healthy is
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This was a guest post that I originally wrote for the wonderful and supportive blog from the BingeBehavior Community. He stood on the scale with wide, nervous eyes as the doctor shook her head and tsk tsked. “He’s overweight,” she told me, “you need to put your cat on a diet.” “But I don’t believe in diets,” I
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This comes to us from a reader in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Q- So I’m pretty sure that I’m a sugar addict. I’ve been in treatment for years to deal with my eating disorder. It started as anorexia when I was in high school. Spun into bulimia when I was in college. When I was 22, I
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The obvious answer is “to lose weight.” But is that really, really true? I don’t think it is. Think about it, when do you start a diet? Usually it’s after you’ve had a particularly bad day or week or month or you’ve seen a photo of yourself that you don’t like or someone makes a
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I’m really sick of hearing people talk about how if so and so knew what she was doing to her health, she would just stop eating and start exercising, or why can’t so and so stop eating, or so and so is setting such a bad example for her children. Let’s set the record straight.
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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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