Leora Fulvio

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Name: Leora Fulvio
Date registered: January 16, 2011

Latest posts

  1. Sleep, Food, & Mood. — May 18, 2012
  2. Go Vogue! — May 17, 2012
  3. Don’t do a lot. Do a little. — May 4, 2012
  4. How To Lose 5 pounds In 2 Days — May 2, 2012
  5. Play in the Dirt for Good Mental Health — April 26, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. I Can’t Stop Eating Carbs! — 6 comments
  2. 108 — 5 comments
  3. Friday Q & A – I binge at night – Help! — 5 comments
  4. Book Review–703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life — 4 comments
  5. Rats, Stress, Restriction, Oreos and Binge Eating — 4 comments
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May 18

Sleep, Food, & Mood.

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night eating, night eating syndrome

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a nice comfortable, luxurious bed might make you want to go to sleep

Do you ever do that thing, where it’s the night, but you’re somehow afraid to go to sleep? You’re kind of dreading it? You get up and go to the refrigerator, sit on the couch with your computer in your lap, looking at facebook, watching television, half-heartedly reading blogs, half-heartedly watching television, and eventually,  you’ve …

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May 17

Go Vogue!

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body image, eating disorder, fashion industry

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first vogue cover

Did you hear? Did you hear? Vogue Magazine has decided to become ” ambassadors for the message of healthy body image.” And in that, according to the NY Times they have decided not to have any models in their magazine who are under the age of 16, nor any models who “appear to have an …

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May 04

Don’t do a lot. Do a little.

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addiction, binge eating, eating disorder

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exercise moderately for good health

I have this client. This smart, beautiful, funny, compassionate, wonderful client who has been suffering with food issues for a very, very long time. Once every few months, she has a plan. She’s going to cut out sugar, she’s going to do yoga 3 times a week, she’s going to meditate daily, she’s going to …

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May 02

How To Lose 5 pounds In 2 Days

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binge eating, eating disorder

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ahhh I wish I could stop this damn diet

Stop dieting. It’s that simple. You might not lose the five pounds off your body, but you’ll definitely get it off your mind. And if you really stop dieting, and that in turn helps you to stop bingeing, your body might just settle into it’s normal weight, which might or might not be five pounds …

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Apr 26

Play in the Dirt for Good Mental Health

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binge eating, Stress Eating

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you don't have to eat dirt to stop binge eating, just play in it

I grew up in New York City and still live in a big city, so I start this post with a disclaimer that this is not something that I have personal experience with. However, I have heard many of my clients discuss how much they enjoy gardening and how meditative and wonderful it is.  Today …

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Apr 23

Wedding Weight Loss, Eating Disorders, Self Harm, and Those Who Encourage It

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eating disorder

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selfharmbride

A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times posted an article about brides going to extremes to lose weight before their weddings. One doctor charges healthy women $1500 to insert a  feeding tubes in their noses for ten days so that they can   receive nutrition while they starve themselves to knock off a few …

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Apr 14

How an apple a day can help you let go of binge eating

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binge eating

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apples for weight loss

The Huffington Post recently had an interesting article by Kathy Freston author of  The Lean about how eating apples can help people lose weight.  I wrote a post similar to this  a few years ago adding something rather than subtracting foods.  According to Ms. Freston, because apples have a fiber called pectin, which is used to …

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Apr 12

Friday Q & A – I’m out of control with food and I feel helpless

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binge eating, intuitve eating, mindful eating, Q & A Fridays, scientific study

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Why can't i just get back on my diet?

This question comes to us from Aubrey in Missouri. Question: On July 19th this last year (two years after my brother’s car accident that left him with a traumatic brain injury) I decided that I was going to change my life. I was 206 pounds, a *tight* size 15, and completely unhappy with my body. …

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Mar 29

Friday Q & A – I binge at night – Help!

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night eating, night eating syndrome, Q & A Fridays

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binge eating at night

This question, from Alex was submitted through the comments section in response to a question about binge eating at night.  Question: I do have this same problem. I actually use to weigh 280 pounds with a size 48 waist. Then I started taking MMA (mixed martial arts) and got my diet and weight lifting down …

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Mar 19

I Can’t Stop Eating Carbs!

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binge eating, diets don't work, intuitve eating, mindful eating

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What's Healthy About This?

Because you shouldn’t. “But carbohydrates make me fat!” I’ve had several clients over the years come in believing this very thing, that eating carbohydrates would make them fat. So, what they would do was go on these all high-protein and high-fat diets, eating only eggs, bacon, butter, steak, water, vodka, and whatever else had very …

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