Binge Eating Therapy

I’m Really Impressed by The Blond Vegan

If you’ve been following eating disorder news or blogosphere foodies at all, you know the story about the blond vegan. If you don’t, I’ll give you a quick recap. A young woman, Jordan Younger, who has been a prolific instagrammer and blogger had spent a year photographing her beautiful vegan meals, her exercise feats, and her shopping trips.  Her photographs and eating became an obsession. Not just for her, but for her 70,000 instagram followers. Ms. Younger then began to

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Causes Binge Eating Disorder

What Causes Binge Eating Disorder?

Someone asked me yesterday why people have binge eating disorder,  as if there is one answer, she said, “is it trauma? or is it the media’s preoccupation with being thin? or what?” Okay, so clearly there is no one answer, there are like 100 or one million reasons and they’re all mix and match. But let me tell you here the ones that I’ve come across most often:  1. Backlash from dieting- A long time ago, somebody said that you were

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clean your plate challenge

Try not to clean your plate challenge

I recently gave a challenge to one of my clients to try for one week to leave a little bit of food on her plate at each meal. It didn’t have to be a lot of food, she didn’t have to leave over half her meal, just a bit of food, like one last forkfull, just symbolically to not clean her plate. When I gave her the assignment, she said that she was extremely nervous and anxious even thinking about it.

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How Potty Training is Like Recovery

How Potty Training is Like Recovery

I read this article on NPR.org the other day that discusses how we change behaviors. The author of the article, Tania Lombrozo, a cognitive researcher at UC Berkeley poses the question, “Why don’t we do what we know we should be doing?” She discusses in terms of parenting why it is so difficult to integrate knowledge. But I was thinking of it in terms of recovery from binge eating, for instance many people ask the question “I know that I

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Myths about Fat or “Obese” Women

Top Ten Myths about Fat or “Obese” Women

I’m really sick of hearing people talk about how if so and so knew what she was doing to her health, she would just stop eating and start exercising, or why can’t so and so stop eating, or so and so is setting such a bad example for her children.  Let’s set the record straight. Here are the top ten stupid-ass things that I’ve heard people say (otherwise known as myths). MYTH #1.  Obese women should be educated on how to

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Recover From Binge Eating

Is it Possible to Recover From Binge Eating Disorder on Your Own?

I received an email from a woman who is currently reading my book and she asked me the question, “do you think it’s possible to reach recovery on my own?” It’s a really good question and one that I thought should be discussed in more depth on the blog. I know what the reader means by that, she means is it possible to stop binge eating without dealing with a therapist or a twelve step group, can I just read

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Looksist Gossip

Make a Pact to Detox from Looksist Gossip

Can we make a pact? I just did something that made me so mad, and I don’t want to do it again, so I wonder, will you make a pact with me not to support a media that exploits other human beings as a means to achieve their own ends? This is what I did. I clicked on a link that said something like “14 Famous Celebs with Terrible Teeth.”  I’m not going to link to it.  And for some

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Letter to My Teenage

An Open Letter to My Teenage Self

  I have been noticing a lot recently that many of my readers (my teenage girl readers) have been linking some of my posts to their tumblrs.  If you’ve linked to me, I’ve probably read your tumblr. And every time I go through another tumblr of someone dealing with depression, an eating disorder or self-harming behaviors, my heart breaks.  Not because I feel pity for you, but because I’m having an empathy attack. Like you, I was once a teenage girl. And it sort

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Eating and Mindful Eating

Ten Differences Between Compulsive Eating and Mindful Eating

It’s not super easy to recognize when you are eating compulsively. Sometimes we get so entrenched in our habits and our lives that we just forget about taking time to really nurture ourselves.  Food and eating becomes habitual, mindless, and unhealthy. Of course it’s normal that you are not going to be eating mindfully all the time, sometimes life dictates that we have to eat in the car, or we have to get takeout or use the microwave. However, if

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Binge Eating Disorder

Ten Myths About Binge Eating Disorder

1. All binge eaters are obese Completely untrue. In fact most of the people I see in my practice are considered a “normal weight.”  Food is their drug and bingeing is something they do in private and something people will go at lengths to hide, including maintaining a normal weight. In fact, I’ve  had clients who were downright skinny but who binged on food often and felt completely out of control with it. 2. All obese people are binge eaters

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Happy Right Now

31 Easy Ways to be Happy Right Now

1. Practice kindness in every aspect of your life. While you’re driving,  wave someone through who is waiting to get out of a parking lot into the road. Give your leftovers to someone who is hungry. 2. Do simple things to make yourself feel nurtured. File and clean your nails– maybe even get a manicure or pedicure. Take a nap,  clean your sheets and make your bed, shower, wash and condition your hair, shave, and let yourself relax. 3. Face

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Help a Partner with an Eating Disorder

How To Help a Partner with an Eating Disorder

After about six months of seeing Michael and Claudia for couples counseling, Michael called me up crying, “She won’t stop, no matter what I do, I can’t get her to stop, she’s going to die! Please help me, how can I get her to stop? ” Michael and Claudia, both 35 years old with two children had been together since they were 17 years old. Claudia had been bulimic for the past twenty years, but despite them being together for more

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Binge Eating Book

Binge Eating Book

Goodreads Book Giveaway Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating by Leora Fulvio Giveaway ends April 15, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win  

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Eating Disorder Recovery Song

Eating Disorder Recovery Song

I got an email this weekend from a young woman by the name of Tess Glinert. She’s 16 years old and now in recovery from anorexia. She recorded this very moving song–(it’s her first recording!) all about her recovery. Please do support Tess.  I think she’s incredibly brave not only to recover but to put herself out there like this and to give a message of hope to everyone out there trying to recover. You are awesome Tess! So glad

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Claiming Yourself

Review of Reclaiming Yourself by Joanna Poppink

Joanna Poppink,  Los Angeles based Eating Disorder Therapist and author of Healing Your Hungry Heart wrote a wonderful review of my new book that I’d like to share:   Leora Fulvio takes the mystery out of binge eating in her wonderful new book, Reclaiming Yourself From Binge Eating:  A Step-by-Step Guide to Healing  and offers practical and caring information about how to end this destructive way of living. Kind and thoroughly practical, Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating is readable, engaging and eye opening.

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Before I Eat App

Review of Before I Eat App

I’ve just been introduced to a new app that is designed to help people stop binge eating. It’s really pretty amazing. I’m quite impressed- and only a little bit jealous that I didn’t design it. It’s called Before I Eat. It was designed by Alen Standish who runs QuitBingeEating.com. I really love this app because it’s just so full of amazing tools. It’s obvious to me that it was designed with a great deal of integrity and with amazing intention

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can’t stop bingeing

Friday (Er- I mean Sunday) Q&A- I can’t stop bingeing- No Matter what I try!

As I said previously, I’m catching up on several months of questions. I’ve got two babies at home (one very new and one a young toddler) and my new book will be released in less than 3 weeks, so that’s been taking up  any second I have that’s not either nursing a baby or chasing a toddler around. And so all of these things together have made it difficult to answer my Friday Q & As very swiftly. That being said,

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Wrote a Book

I Wrote a Book- and You Can Win a Free Copy

Hello everyone, I’ve got a big announcement, I wrote a book! Available on amazon starting on March 28th. But it is currently on sale for preorder it now or preorder the kindle version as well. Let me first tell you a bit about my book and then I will explain how you can win a free copy or get a free “stop binge eating” hypnosis download. After working with people for nearly eight years, I began this blog in 2007

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stop binge eating

Friday Q & A- I’ve tried everything to stop binge eating but I can’t

Question: Two years ago I was diagnosed with BED. Since, its only gotten worse. Especially these last 6 months. I’ve gone no more than 3 days in a row without binging. My binges are extreme: I mean eating until the point of illness. Stealing food from my housemates. Eating from a garbage. Spending bill money on binges. And the thing is I’ve tried everything. I’ve tried adding more protein. I’ve tried eating 3 meals a day. I tried eating every 2 hours.

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How to Support National Eating Disorder Awareness Week

It’s that time again! National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. What is NEDAwareness Week and why is it important you ask? I’m glad you asked.  Bringing focus to eating disorders is more than just showing support for those who are struggling with anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder.  The intention here is to show just how pervasive eating disorders are and how much support there is for eating disorders in our culture. Yes, eating disorders are supported, not recovery.   You

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