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How to Help a Partner Suffering with an Eating Disorder Read Post »
Loving Someone Who Is Suffering Can Be Rough, Here’s How You Can Help How to Help a Partner Suffering with an Eating Disorder Download Free PDF Print Out Do’s and Don’t Reminder! It is so hard to watch your partner struggle with an eating disorder. You might find yourself feeling really angry with them,
What People Pleasing And Binge Eating Disorder Have in Common Read Post »
She Couldn’t Say No, but She Binged While Everyone Slept *Sarah was a self-proclaimed pushover. She came to me a few years ago to deal with a pretty intense binge and restrict cycle. She would eat “properly” and “healthily” in front of people, showing them how “good” she was. But late at night when her
Why Do I Feel Sad on Zepbound? Read Post »
GLP-1s and Anhedonia: The Science Behind Feeling Flat on Ozempic or Mounjaro GLP-1 and Depression: What the Research Says About Mood Side Effects (2026) You were promised by your doctor or your friends or you parents or the internet that once you started the medication the “food noise” would go away. You were promised that
GLP-1s and Anhedonia: Why You Might Feel “Flat” on Ozempic or Mounjaro Read Post »
Diet Culture has been trying to fool you; she’s sneaking around in a lab coat now “When I started this blog in 2007, Binge Eating Disorder (BED) wasn’t even a ‘real’ diagnosis. Nineteen years later, we have a new challenge: the rise of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro. While these drugs are helping some
The 1200 Calorie Myth Read Post »
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 your
Is it Binge Eating or is It Something Else? Read Post »
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 they are all alone, a
Compulsive Shopping, Skin Picking and Disordered Eating… Read Post »
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 of traits across the board.
Can I Recover from Binge Eating Without Gaining Weight? Read Post »
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 work I’ve lost? It’s confusing. On
Am I a Food Addict? Read Post »
Dear Leora, 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 been up 70 pounds
Eating Disorders and Anxious Style – (updated 2026) Read Post »
The way we relate to food is almost always a mirror of the way we are in relationships. During my 20 years of clinical practice as a psychotherapist, I have found that my clients who struggle with a restrictive/binge or binge/purge cyle can often also carry a pretty intense anxious attachment style that intermittently turns
Intermittent Fasting and Binge Eating Read Post »
DOES INTERMITTENT FASTING CAUSE BINGE EATING? While I was doing my first eating disorder internship back in 2005, all of the patients were doing intermittent fasting. The thing is, its wasn’t called intermittent fasting. Back then, it was just called disordered eating. Then a bunch of men started delving into the world of eating disorders,
How to Stop Hating Your Body Read Post »
My mother was a skinny woman, with a tiny body ribs and shoulder bones that stuck out everywhere, a 23 inch waist and big ass Kardashian thighs and booty. But this was not 2018 when tiny waists and giant booties are all the rage.
5 Ways to Change Your Environment for Binge Eating Recovery Read Post »
I really love bugs. I don’t know what it is about them. I just find them fascinating. When I was a little girl, I used to collect them. I know. Gross. But I was a big nerd — so there you go. Anyway, one dusk in late spring, my Mom and I went to a
Will Intuitive Eating Cause Weight Gain? Read Post »
The problem is, intuitive eating has been co-opted as another weight loss method. And if you are still focused on losing weight, your stress about diets, weight loss and changing your body are going to continue to nag at you.
Thunder Thighs and Other “Problem Areas” Read Post »
Many years ago, when my cousin had her first baby, her husband, as he held this gorgeous nine month old baby, squeezed on of her plump little thighs and said, “I can already see that this is going to be a problem area for her, we’re going to have to watch that…” (don’t worry, my
Is Going Vegan Helpful For Binge Eating Disorder? Read Post »
It’s not Friday! But I’m doing my Q & A today anyway because this was an important one. This is a topic that I’ve been avoiding since I’ve been blogging (10+ years on this site). Why have I been avoiding it? Because it’s so emotionally charged and so controversial and I didn’t want to isolate
How to Use Mindful Self Compassion to Help Binge Eating Disorder Read Post »
Being human is one of the most difficult ways to be born. Really, it sucks. Each day we are presented with a myriad of feelings that vary from elation to downright painful. And really difficult things happen. Houses get set on fire, mass shootings happens, people get attacked, violated… and to a less degree, our
Eating Disorders Protect You from Thinking Too Much Read Post »
I have this brilliant client. Let’s call her Megan. Megan is brilliant. She comes in and waxes poetic about politics, philosophy, relationships, ethics, medicine… Really anything. She has a lot on her mind and needs to talk through it. I love to listen to her and I love to hear her thoughts and her ideas
How Did I Gain 7 Pounds Overnight? Read Post »
I Gained Seven Pounds. Oh Sh*t At the gym the other morning, I saw a young woman hop on the scale, move the weights to a place that apparently she did not like and immediately burst out crying. I was heading toward her to see if she was okay but another woman ran over to
The Most Important Piece of Nutritional Advice You Need Read Post »
There are a lot of “nutrition experts” out there. Everyone fancies themselves a nutrition guru. I see these folks all over the Internet, amateur nutritionologists- they give weight loss advice, they tell people what to include in their diets and what they should absolutely NEVER eat. But here’s the thing. They’re not really nutrition
How Do I Stop My Urge To Binge Eat? Read Post »
The Urge To Binge Is Making Me Crazy Question: I’m so overwhelmed by my urges to binge. How can I stop them? My Answer: That’s a really good question. In recovery, we don’t really “stop” urges, learn how to react differently to them. In addiction, when you have an urge or
