Eating Disorders

The "I'm Right, You're Wrong" Dynamic

Jane Shure | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Eating Disorders, National Public Radio, Empowerment, Bulemia, Npr, Teenage Girls, Therapy, Anorexia, Living News
Jane Shure

Remember -- just because someone says they are right, doesn't mean that they are -- and the corollary also follows that just because someone says you are wrong, doesn't mean that you are.

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The Skinny

Scarlett Johansson | Posted 07.21.2009 | Home

Read More: National Eating Disorder Association, Personal Health, Women's Health, Scarlett Johansson Skinny, Health, Scarlett, Scarlett Johansson, Eating Disorders, Celebrity Body, Home News
Scarlett Johansson

Since dedicating myself to getting into "superhero shape," several articles regarding my weight have been brought to my attention. I'm frustrated with the irresponsibility of tabloid media who sell the public ideas about what we should look like and how we should get there.

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Big Is Back! Aussie Harper's Bazaar Features Anorexic-Turned-Plus-Size Model

pipeline.refinery29.com | Posted 05.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Plus-Size Model, Eating Disorders, Style News

With all the hoopla over '50s pin-up glamour making a comeback and Beth Ditto gracing the inaugural issue of LOVE, it's about time the curvier gals ma...

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Are You a Compulsive Overeater?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 04.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Control, Mental Health, Dieting, Exercise, Health, Compulsive Overeating, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Eating, Diet, Obesity, Bulimia, Binge Eating, Addiction & Recovery, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Compulsive overeaters eat way past the point of full. Some I have worked with have consumed up to 60,000 calories in one day.

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Would You Rather Be Called a Slut or Fat?

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Discrim, Reddit, Fat Shaming, Food Porn, Hoover Institute, Eating Disorders, Nadya Suleman, Obesity, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

In an interesting switch, food and sex have completely reversed their roles in society. And all within only a matter of two generations.

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Lent, a Cookie Craving, and a Healthy Goal

Adia Colar | Posted 04.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Holidays, Cookies, Body Image, Health, Cookie Dough, Eating Disorders, Catholic, Weight Loss, Goal Setting, Lent, Healthy Eating, Food, Eating, Diet, Living News
Adia Colar

Even if I never lose another pound, it's imperative for my own sanity that I love my body as it is. Since I'm going to spend my whole life with this body, I might as well love it.

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Don't Let Anyone Tell You What to Eat

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 03.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Weight Control, Dieting, Eating Disorders, Food, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Tips, Diet, Obesity, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

A recent study has confirmed what I have been teaching for a long time. A calorie is a calorie and the only way to lose weight is to take in less calories then you burn. The end.

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Women, Body Image and Blogging

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 03.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Women's Issues, Anorexia, Body Image, Health, Women's Health, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Obesity, Bulimia, Women and Body Image, Wellness, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Our society places an enormous amount of emphasis on women's clothing, weight and age. As women, we can choose to ignore this or cave and adhere to strict standards of beauty.

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Sex Advice for both Jessica Simpsons

Mike Alvear | Posted 03.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Body Shame, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Body Image, Jessica Simpson, Sex, The Sex Inspectors, Entertainment News
Mike Alvear

What works in the bedroom works outside of it. If you don't want to be judged strictly by your body place the attention outside of it. Be a vehicle for pleasure not an object to be looked at.

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You can Recover from Chronic Dieting

Colleen Perry | Posted 03.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Starvation, Recovery, Needs, Relationships, 12 Steps, Chronic Dieting, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Non Violent Communication, Overeating, Women's Issues, Female Body Image, Girls Body Image, Women and Body Image, Women's Health, Body Image, Health, Living News
Colleen Perry

If you haven't addressed the "why" for overeating in the first place, you will most likely go back to your old way of eating.

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Women Exercise to Get Male Attention

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Katherine Heigl, Badvertising, Advertising, Exercise, Men's Health Magazine, Fitness, Eating Disorders, Sex, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Why is this poor woman blowing off a fun night with the girls to ride the one stationary bike in the deserted gym that isn't facing the beautiful scenic view? You see, it's because she wants a man.

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How to Free Yourself From Dieting - Step 2

Colleen Perry | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief Work, Therapy, Body Acceptance, Anorexia, Thinness, Dieting, Eating Disorders, Dietician, Obesity, Women and Body Image, Hypnotherapy, Health, Happiness, Living News
Colleen Perry

Often, chronic dieting or the development of an eating disorder is a mask for feelings in your life over which you sense you have no control; depression, anxiety, or loss. Your body becomes a battleground.

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The 12 Steps of Recovery from Chronic Dieting

Colleen Perry | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Attachment, Health and Wellness, Needs, Temperment, 12 Steps, Dieting, Emotional Eating, 12 Steps of Recovery, How to Stop Dieting, Eating Disorders, Health, Addiction & Recovery, Living News
Colleen Perry

Unless you are in touch with the needs that you are currently meeting with food, dieting, or binging, you have very little chance of... breaking free of the cycle of weight loss/weight gain.

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New Year's Resolution: To Be Happy in 2009, Stop Dieting!

Colleen Perry | Posted 01.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Calorie Restriction, Self Esteem, Yo Yo Dieting, Binging, Dieting, 12 Steps of Recovery, How to Stop Dieting, Eating Disorders, How to Stop Binging, Self Acceptance, New Years Resolutions, Set Point, Self Love, Restriction, Losing Weight, Weightloss, Diet, Metabolism, Water Weight, New Year's Commentary, Living News
Colleen Perry

In order to break out of our delusion, we must acknowledge the crucial fact regarding dieting and weight loss -- dieting does not work.

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How to Keep and Use a Food Journal

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 01.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Control, Healthy Eating, Health, Weight Loss Tips, Food, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, How to Lose Weight, Food Journal, Losing Weight, Calories, Dieting, Counting Calories, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

I have been touting the value of food records for years. It is tedious and it can be hard to write down high calorie days, but it is so worth it.

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Indie Rock Gives Men Eating Disorders

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 01.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Amos Lee, Anorexia, Body Image, David Beckham, Kurt Cobain, Fall Out Boy, Eating Disorders, David Bowie, Kaiser Chiefs, Music, Pete Wentz, Ricky Wilson, Caleb Followill, Indie Rock, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Blame American Apparel or Pete Wentz, but men in this particular hipster subculture are now being held up to the impossibly skinny standard.

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Why They Cut

Aimee Liu | Posted 01.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Eating Disorders, Self-Injury, Recovery, Psychology, Children's Health, Cutting, Suicide, Teenagers, Living News
Aimee Liu

Frustratingly few media accounts of self-injury ever address the fundamental reason why people hurt themselves when they're distressed.

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An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 01.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Control, Oprah's Weight, Diets, Oprah Winfrey, Diet Tips, Calories, Oprah, Eating Disorders, Food, Weight Loss, Diet, Obesity, Food Journal, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Your body counts calories. That is how it determines what you weigh. If you understand that and can keep track, learn the calories and portion sizes of the foods you eat, you can do this, Oprah.

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The Tyranny of Perfection

Jane Shure | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Jane Fonda, Eating Disorders, Sexual Abuse, Perfectionism, Parent Child Relationships, Mother Daughter Relationships, Motherhood, Parenting, Living News
Jane Shure

So often, daughters and sons blame themselves for the unknown tragedies in their parents' childhoods. Often without awareness, they seek to transform their parent's sadness.

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Thanking, Instead of Apologizing for, Our Bodies

Adia Colar | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Control, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Psychology, Body Image, Women and Body Image, Health, Living News
Adia Colar

Recently, I've been thinking about how so many people, but particularly women, apologize for their bodies rather than celebrating how great they really are.

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It's Not The Thanksgiving Dinner, It's the Leftovers

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 12.28.2008 | Style

Read More: Weight Control, Healthy Eating, Health, Thanksgiving, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Tips, Obestiy, Thanksgiving Traditions, Overeating, Thanksgiving Tips, Thanksgiving Commentary, Style News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Even if you overeat at Thanksgiving, what you do on that one day will not determine your weight a year from now. It is what you do on average, over time, that determines what you weigh.

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Healthy Eating Obsession Gets Red Alert on the Today Show

Donna Fish | Posted 12.18.2008 | Living

Read More: National Eating Disorder Association, Eating Disorders, Diet, Health, Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating Disorder, Living News
Donna Fish

With rising obesity rates and "healthy eating" such a focus in our culture though, little attention has been paid to date, on how much an obsession about eating can be woven into daily life.

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HEALTHY EATING OBSESSION Gets Red Alert on the Tod

Donna Fish | Posted 12.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Healthy Eating, Eating Disorders, The Today Show, Health, NEDA, Home News
Donna Fish

Good news to me. Finally, some attention paid to the fact that so many people think that 'healthy eating' can turn into an obsession and an eating d...

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A New Eating Disorder

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 12.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Obesity, Gaining Weight, Health, Healthy Weight, Maintaining Weight, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

The key to losing weight isn't dieting; it is learning how to be the weight you want to be permanently.

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Jewish Girls and Self-Destructive Behaviors: By The Numbers

Leslie Goldman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Destructive, Girls, Cutting, Sex, Alcohol, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Drugs, Think Tank, Technology, Jewish, Teen Loneliness, Jewish Girls, Low Self-Esteem, Jewish Girls Eating Disorders, Social Networking, Self-Esteem, Youth Body Image, Living News
Leslie Goldman

We must help undo the damage done by impossibly high academic standards, media portrayals of unrealistic bodies, and other factors that make young women feel like they don't measure up.

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