On our website, Leftovers To Go, we have two categories for blogs. One is Tasty Morsels, which is written by Dr. Deah Schwartz and is about body image, size acceptance, Health at Every Size, and using expressive arts therapies to address eating disorders and body dissatisfaction. Tasty Morsels is based on Dr. Deah’s personal experiences …
I don’t have anything profound to say on the eating disorder front, just an update to tide me over until I have time to think, and therefore write, over spring break. I’m busy chipping away at my AmeriCorps hours and putting in time at Old Navy. At many points over the past year a hectic …
Former Mayor Ed Koch and his sister Pat have just had a children’s book published. And I almost want to buy it and read it. Almost but not quite. The book, Eddie Shapes Up, was discussed in the New York Times today by Sam Roberts, who describes the book as, “a more or less autobiographical …
The one thing that people seem to be most interested in and curious is how I was able to survive such a terrible and devastating disease as anorexia and bulimia, and how I have managed to maintain my recovery. I know everybody is looking for that magic answer, trying to tap into it, and sometimes …
Brown Sugar Meringues Yield: 32+ Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes Ingredients: 4 egg whites (at room temperature) 1 cup packed brown sugar Pinch of salt Directions: • Preheat the oven to 250°. In a large bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Beat in the brown sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time. …
What they wrote: Survey: 97 percent of women have negative body image Glamour magazine reports that some women have 25, 50, even 100 of these negative thoughts on a daily basis By CBS News Staff Beautiful female body (THIS IS THEIR CAPTION!) (CBS News)It’s no secret most women struggle to feel happy with their …
Those of you who have been following this blog ministry have shared in my recovery journey, maybe learned some lessons with me and hopefully seen my writing skills improve. In the past my format hasn’t been formal, but over the last year I’ve learned to post more consistently. By posting weekly, my readership has increased …
Anyone see this gem of a Superbowl commercial? It’s titled, “All You Can Eat,” and yes, that’s the voice of Aaron Paul, of Breaking Bad fame. Any thoughts? Here are mine. Food is not a drug. It’s something we need to survive. Can people develop unhealthy relationships to food, behaviors that mimic addiction? Yes. But, …
Belonging to a family is much like belonging to a grammar school, Junior High, High School and College. One is taught lessons about life, the world and themselves and then graduate on to the next level. However, the problem with some eating disordered families is that they are at times over protective, controlling and intimidating, …
Balance is a hard thing for a lot of us. For those of us with eating disorders it’s the thorn in our sides that sticks us in the most inopportune times. At work we either give it our all or don’t give it a glance. At the Victorian, we once had a client who got …
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