Binge Eating Therapy

The 1200 Calorie Myth

Have you ever searched online for how many calories you should eat to lose weight, only to be told something like, “You need to eat 1200 calories per day to lose 10 pounds by next month”?   It’s a common message—and a dangerous one. The idea behind the 1200-calorie diet is that it’s the minimum […]
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People Like Me More

How can I make people like me? Why Don’t People Like Me? And What Can I Do About it? What has always been generally accepted in the thinking about eating disorders is that they are about “control.” But what does that mean? Is it about controlling food? Not really, food

Well… most people don’t binge at Thanksgiving dinner… It’s usually after. Thanksgiving Binge? It’s okay. most people don’t binge at Thanksgiving dinner. They usually eat until they are comfortably full or even uncomfortably full. The binge comes when they get home. Because for people with eating issues, being full is

Thanksgiving
Not Binge Eat on Thanksgiving

A long, long time ago, in a lifetime that is so far from the one I’m currently in, I had one of my first major, major forays into deeply disordered eating on Thanksgiving. It was 1986, I was twelve years old (12 YEARS OLD!!!!) and we were having our Thanksgiving

There are many people who come to me with a desire to stop binge eating. They tell me that they have tried for years to get over their binge eating disorder, but that they have no willpower, no ability to stop overeating. For most it’s a ritual that happens when

Binge Eating
Skin Picking and Disordered

Several people have emailed me to ask about why they seem to have some issues with compulsive shopping since the shelter-in-place has begun. The Eating Disorder brain is multi-faceted, but in my many years of treating people with many different kinds of disordered eating patterns, I’ve noticed a consistent set

  Question: Is it possible to recover from binge eating without putting on too much weight. If you’ve starved yourself for a while and lost weight but now bingeing and slowly starting to put it back on, how can you stop the binge cycle without putting on all the hard

Eating Without Gaining Weight
Food Addict

Question: I’ve been in a 12 step group for food addiction for many years. I lose lots of weight, then I relapse and I gain it all back and then I drop out of program and then I go back again and lose the weight. This cycle is exhausting. I’ve

  I’m Going into hiding for 45 Days – I’m Going To Emerge as a Whole New Me!   There is a 45 day reboot meme. You go into hiding for 45 days and focus steadily on weight training, nutrition and whatever else. You then emerge a whole new you.

The Whole New Me Syndrome
Food and Body Image Issues

Coronavirus mental health issues are very real. UPDATED ON OCTOBER 26TH. I originally wrote this article right after the United States went into lockdown in early March. Although things have gotten better many people after the initial shock, there are still many people suffering with depression, grief, anxiety, election stress,

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