You know those voices that pop into your head and tell you that you’re fat, that you need to lose weight, that you’ve eaten too much, that you’re ugly, stupid, boring, or whatever? A lot of people with eating issues suffer with these voices. They hear them and believe that the voices are right. …
Category Archive: emotions
Aug 16
How to Cope with Hurt Feelings
Do you ever eat when you have hurt feelings? Do you find yourself in the middle of a binge or emotionally eating? Do you ever come home or get off the phone with someone, and feeling sad and lonely, stressed or anxious, angry or overwhelmed, walk over to the refrigerator and unconsciously start eating until …
Jul 21
Taking Care of Your Inner Child
Your eating disorder might feel like a tyrannical dictator, telling you what to eat, what not to eat, pushing you to give in to obsessive cravings, pushing you to purge, pushing you to starve or restrict, but for many people, that voice is actually a scared little girl (or boy) living inside of you, …
May 16
Isolation in Eating Disorders
Isolation and eating disorders go together for many reasons. Often people find themselves avoiding situations where food will be involved because they are either afraid of overeating or they don’t want deal with the questions or the looks if they are restricting. People also find that they begin pushing away friends, family, and partners in …
May 11
How Shame Contributes to Eating Disorders and Eating Disorders Contribute to Shame
Do you ever feel shame? Shame for eating too much, shame for eating too little, shame for the way you look, shame for the body you’re in, shame for the things you do, for the thoughts that you have, shame for lying about what you ate, shame for eating out of the garbage can, shame …
Apr 13
Life Is Hard
“Life is Difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly see that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is …
Apr 08
Friday Q & A How do I deal with the Anxiety that triggers my Binge Eating?
This question comes from reader/forum contributor Sunshine. Q: I have anxiety, I take meds for it. How do I control my anxiety without using food? Because I use food to numb my mind. Thanks! A: This is a good question. And one that many people deal with. Anxiety is certainly underneath many cases of bulimia …
Mar 07
Anger and Binge Eating
There is a theory that many people binge on crunchy food, such as cereal or chips when they are trying to process unconscious anger. Anger is a challenging feeling for many women to feel. When rage and anger goes unexpressed, it turns inward and becomes depression. What’s important is to learn how to be in …
Mar 05
Friday Q & A– I can’t sleep unless I binge
This question comes from a reader in North Carolina. Question: Please help me, every night I binge. It’s not that I want to, I just can’t sleep unless I do. I sit there in bed, tossing and turning, and I can resist for hours, but I still won’t sleep. I can usually make it till …
Feb 14
Book Review–703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life
I haven’t done a book review on this site before, but I just finished reading 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life. In her memoir, Nancy Makin describes what life was like for her as a 703 pound woman. Besides the intense physical trauma that her body suffered from …