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First Year At A Desk Job? You May Put On 10 Or More Pounds
You may want to stand up while you read this. According to a recent survey by Wonderful Pistachios, women in their first year at a desk job may put on several pounds – with average weight gain clocking in at about 11 pounds. Good intentions fail The study found that the office is a disaster …
Kate Middleton Featured On Pro-Anorexia Websites
According to an article in the British newspaper The Daily Mail, the Duchess of Cambridge is being featured as a role model on certain controversial pro-anorexia websites in the US. Kate Middleton has continued to lose weight following her marriage in April of this year to Prince William. While she has always been considered to …
Facebook And The National Eating Disorder Association Working Together
In a recent article, we discussed how the popular social network Facebook may be linked to eating disorders. The complete article can be read here: https://eatingdisorders.com/news/eating-disorders/facebook-linked-to-eating-disorders The First Step The National Eating Disorder Association and Facebook will be looking for any thing that can trigger an eating disorder such as but not limited to groups …
Understanding Selective Eating Disorder
Picky Eaters Selective eating disorder is what many scientists refer to as a “picky eater” these individual will only eat specific foods and combination’s of foods. This is most often seen in childhood. Although, resent studies have concluded that the once common words used to label children who would only eat a few specific foods …
Watching Action Films Could Make You Eat More
While mindless snacking tends to be common when we’re in front of the TV, a new study suggests that what we’re watching could influence our eating habits, too. Researchers from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab found that people who watched action movies ate almost twice as much food as individuals who watched an interview …
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Eating Disorder Recovery And Birthdays!
This past week was my own eating disorder recovery birthday. By the grace of God, this year I am celebrating 3 years of recovery! Yesssssssssssss! Happy Birthday to me! I never thought I would be able to say I have 3 years, but alas I am here! I was thinking maybe some of you think …
Can You Love Your Body Without Really Loving Your Body?
Lose the Diet. Love Your Body. Eat in Peace. Those are three of the major tenets of my work with eating and body image. The order in which women accomplish these goals is fairly standard. First, they give up dieting. While this may be a radical notion for some, usually it’s not too difficult to …
Day 73
I am having a really terrible day today, which I know has been a choice. Now I’m making the choice to change my perspective and turn it around because it’s not working to sit in self pity. I’m obsessing over family issues, job issues, money issues, and relationship issues…I think I’m obsessing like this because I …
EATING DISORDERS…..I’M NOT SPOILED YOU ARE JUST VERY ACCOMMODATING.
One of the reasons I was able to go on living with Anorexia and Bulimia for so long, has something to do with me not wanting to get better, but I also believe it was because I was allowed to get away with not getting better. Every single time I would mess up, no …
Christmas Vs The Eating Disorder
“Don’t forget to leave out milk and cookies for Santa!” “Have some more eggnog.” “Don’t you want some of the pecan pie? I made it just for you!” “You’re getting too thin. Here, have some more of this.” “Getting a little pot belly, aren’t we?” Between the constant focus on food and dealing with friends …