This year my New Year's resolution is to stop making New Year's resolutions. Each moment is a time for positive change, not just the beginning of the year.
Geneen Roth | Posted 12.20.2009 | Living
The most painful thing about using food to comfort ourselves during the holidays (or any other time) is that it is only a temporary solution. After the food is gone, whatever you ate about is still there.
Greg Archer | Posted 12.08.2009 | Style
While touring with "America The Beautiful," Darryl Roberts says he has met more than 100,000 young women, the vast majority of whom have eating disorders or think they are ugly.
Susan Harrow | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
When you start to change the internal dialog the external reality changes and a new, more positive shift in experience happens.
latimes.com | Melissa Healy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
Psychiatrists must decide whether "binge eating disorder" stands alongside anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as a separate psychiatric condition --...
Susan Harrow | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
Continuing to associate the pleasure of companionship with the enjoyment of food gives me those same good feelings I had with my girlfriends -- filmy, fluid and fun.
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
After Ed (aka "eating disorder") and I broke up, I have to admit that I splurged a little. I am not usually much of a shopper, but I was so excited about my life without Ed that I wanted to explore some new things.
msn.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Psychiatrists say 1 in 10 girls look at pro-eating disorder Web sites repeatedly, taking inspiration from celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hil...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books
Former New York Times food critic Frank Bruni discussed bulimia, secret eating and his new book, Born Round, on The Colbert Report, Thursday night. ...
Johann Hari | Posted 11.15.2009 | Style
Women have replaced the prison of the kitchen with the prison of an unachievable body shape. The more powerful a woman is, the more likely she is to be bulimic.
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I never chose to struggle with depression, but I did choose to get better.
Susan Harrow | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
A woman should have a little pooch. It's part of what makes us womanly.
Susan Harrow | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
If you're always looking for ways to not be seen, how do you speak out? How do you move through the world if you have an invisible cloak that has no magical powers other than to keep you in your own shadow?
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
At what age, do we stop noticing fuzz balls? In other words, when do we stop seeing the wonder in the little things?
Anorexia | Randi Hutter Epstein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living
Margie Hodgin, a nurse in Kernersville, N.C., had struggled to lose weight since she was a teenager. But it wasn't until she turned 40 that she finall...
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
My challenge today is to recognize insane ways of thinking and then to move in the direction of positive change.
The Post Chronicle | Posted 07.19.2009 | Home
The Hills star Stephanie Pratt has opened up about the bulimia battle that has dogged her during her time on the reality show. GET THE LATEST NEWS ...
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living
These days, I give the airlines a big thank you for giving me the chance to practice the important concept of letting go on a regular basis.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
Not only do bulimics get the dopamine high, they also avoid the inevitable weight gain their high calorie binges would produce if they didn't purge.
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
I don't have to do anything except be myself and trust the process. If it doesn't work out with someone, I will learn something for the next time around.
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh | Posted 06.15.2009 | Living
I was told in 2002 to stop feeding my child. She was anorexic and her young body was failing. They were wrong, they're still wrong, and they're still saying it.
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 05.25.2009 | Living
I am recovered from anorexia and bulimia. "Recovered," as in, I no longer have an eating disorder. (Period.) Instead, I have a life filled with joy an...
Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living
Nicole Johns suffered severe damage to her body, including exercise-induced asthma, irregular heartbeat, and hypotension, and had to be hospitalized to be treated... while a size 9.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 04.27.2009 | Living
Compulsive overeaters eat way past the point of full. Some I have worked with have consumed up to 60,000 calories in one day.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living
Vegetables give you gas and require vitamin supplementation. Cannibalism is illegal. And I'm too self-conscious to take my jiggling torso to a public gym.
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living