Exercise Motivation, The Weird Way
image:flikrDo you look forward to a strenuous workout?If so, congratulations! But the rest of what follows may seem like incomprehensible gibberish to you. If you don't need to twist your brain into pretzel-like configurations in order to motivate yourself to exercise: you are free to resume websurfing. Enjoy a few more videos of rhinos cuddling with meekrats, or watch with terrified fascination as the next Trumpian plans for the apocalypse are announced. Google up a tasty gluten-free avocado brownie recipe! Or hell, go out and run a marathon and follow it up with a nice little nap.There all sorts of healthy ways to motiva...
Source: Cranky Fitness - March 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
To the Mother of a Daughter with an Eating Disorder
You remember holding your child, kissing her, cuddling her, whispering, “I love you.” You remember her running through the grass, laughing, with a constant smile on her face. You remember what it used to be like before ED (Eating disorder) came into her life.
Writing this I am almost tempted to say that ED is like a really bad boyfriend your daughter has. He’s powerful, manipulating, pervasive, and destructive. He has all the wrong intentions. He doesn’t know when to back off, stop abusing her, or telling her lies.
Everyday is a battle — you watch her struggle to get dressed, fight with her own body,...
Source: World of Psychology - March 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marianne Riley Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Self-Esteem Bingeing Body dysmorphia Body Image bullying Disordered Eating Self Care Source Type: blogs
Weight loss that works: A true story
Many people struggle with being overweight, or even obese. It’s a common topic at office visits. As a doctor, I know that excess weight is associated with potentially serious health conditions — high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol — not to mention sleep apnea, fatty liver disease, and back and knee problems, among other things. Patients may also worry about their appearance.
Whether a patient is at risk for medical problems due to being overweight, or if it’s a personal health goal, then it’s my job to provide counseling.
In my experience, most patients consider weight loss drugs or surger...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Exercise and Fitness Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 26th - March 4th isNational Eating Disorders Awareness Week in the United States.Eating disorders result from an interplay of genetic, social and psychological factors. Some of the most common symptoms involve self-critical beliefs, negative feelings about one ' s body weight, conflictual thoughts about food, and eating habits that disrupt normal body functioning.Eating Disorders can range from mild, moderate to severe - and interfere with daily life activities. Types of Eating Disorders Anorexia Nervosa - Essentially self-starvation, this disorder involves a refusal to maintain a minimally normal b...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - February 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: awareness days eating disorders Source Type: blogs
Eating Disorders Are Not A Choice
This excellent short video compiling interviews with people affected by eating disorders as well as clinicians, drives home the point that eating disorders are not a choice.
The well-produced video made by Sheena’s Place, a Toronto eating disorders support centre, also makes the point that eating disorders affect a diverse range of people of all ages, genders, and sizes.
This is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, a good time to share messages that inform about the realities of eating disorders and do some mythbusting. For more information, please visit the National Eating Disorders...
Source: Channel N - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Tags: All General Interview anorexia awareness brain bulimia CanCon choice eating disorders neuroscience psychology video Source Type: blogs
Pickles, Mustard & Diet Coke: Self-Talk in Eating Disorder Recovery
Oh…and shirataki noodles. Anyway…
I am a recovering anorexic. Well… most of the time. Sometimes I’m just “anorexic.” (Relapse is part of recovery, right??)
Regardless of how “evolved” I may be now, nearly every comment made about my physical appearance, or my intake, or my weight… cuts through me like a knife. People think that they are being kind, but they don’t hear their words through the same ED filter that I do.
He says: “But you look so much HEALTHIER now,” I hear: “You’ve put on weight. You’re fat.”
She says: “It’s different this time, because you don’t...
Source: World of Psychology - January 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Liz Briggs Tags: Anorexia Anxiety and Panic Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Health-related Personal Recovery Self-Help Bingeing calorie-counting dieting Mindful Eating Nutrition Purging restricting Weight Gain Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Braving the Binge
It is 2 AM. The apartment is still. Empty jars of peanut butter, quarts of ice cream, and entire boxes of granola bars. Gone. Hundreds to thousands of calories consumed in just minutes. A food spread of shame. Of procrastination. Of emptiness. Of I don’t know what. Fast forward to the next day. On the outside, you see a petite girl whose joyous, whose positive, whose present. On the inside: severe stomach pains, body aches, chest discomfort. And those are just the physical effects. I am drained. I am disgusted. I am trapped. Cycles of isolation feeding isolation. Literally.
Who am I? I am an artist, a city girl, an almo...
Source: World of Psychology - January 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Madeleine Rachel Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders New Year's Personal Self-Esteem Bingeing Body Image Low Self Esteem self-compassion self-worth Source Type: blogs
Snapping Self-compassion in Selfies
If you like to take selfies, this great TEDx Talk from psychologist Stephanie Zerwas is about online body image in selfies.
She discusses the negative emotions that selfies can generate, and how to approach them.
Zerwas is a clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Director of the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders.
She is social media savvy and has a popular Twitter account, where she posts occasional selfies along with great info on eating disorders.
Photo by Susan von Struensee (Source: Channel N)
Source: Channel N - November 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Sandra Kiume Tags: All General Lecture anorexia body image brain bulimia dysmorphia eating disorders eds online psychology selfcompassion selfies social media video Source Type: blogs
Snapping Self-compassion in Selfies
If you like to take selfies, this great TEDx Talk from psychologist Stephanie Zerwas is about online body image in selfies.
She discusses the negative emotions that selfies can generate, and how to approach them.
Zerwas is a clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Director of the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders.
She is social media savvy and has a popular Twitter account, where she posts occasional selfies along with great info on eating disorders.
(Source: Channel N)
Source: Channel N - November 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Tags: All General Lecture anorexia body image brain bulimia dysmorphia eating disorders eds online psychology selfcompassion selfies social media video Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: September 10, 2016
On September 11, 2001, four airplanes were hijacked by al-Qaeda and flown into both World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C., killing more than 3,000 people, including police officers and firefighters.
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of what we now refer to as 9/11, and people will pause and reflect and grieve just as they have for the past decade and a half.
They will take a moment or two or more to remember those who were senselessly killed during these attacks — as well as their family members and other loved ones.
I know I, for one, will, too.
According to th...
Source: World of Psychology - September 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Addiction Anger Anxiety and Panic Bipolar Brain and Behavior Bulimia Celebrities Children and Teens Disorders Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Mindfulness Psychology Around the Net Research Sleep Stress S Source Type: blogs
Olympic bronze for a “big girl”
Here is a great TBT post from July 2012. Olympian Elana Mayers contributed an excellent body confidence piece to our Body Image Series. Today, we honor our Disruptive Olympian! For more great resources on Body Image, please download our free e-book.
In 2010 when I was named to the U.S. Olympic bobsled team, I was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, female athlete on the team. I was definitely not the tallest, but I did have one of the highest weights – it was even reported in an article.
In my sport, the goal is to push a 400-pound bobsled as fast as you can for approximately 5 seconds and then hop in, so it r...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Body Image athlete bulimia Eating disorder Olympics Source Type: blogs
A Bulimia Device
When I was doing research for my book, I ran across a report of a weight loss device that seemed absurd at the time — the AspireAssist. At that time, the inventor of the Segway was applying for approval for a device he calls AspireAssist which is medical device with a tube which is surgically implanted in the stomach and is attached to a skin-port which is equipped with a valve which is attached to a battery operated pump which sucks a portion of your stomach contents out of your gut and mechanically vomits them into your toilet. About 30% of what has been eaten is removed. In short it is medically induced bulimia. In ...
Source: Jung At Heart - June 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs
“After Alicia Machado won the 1996 Miss Universe title,...
"After Alicia Machado won the 1996 Miss Universe title, something very human happened: She gained weight. @realdonaldtrump didn't keep his critique of her body quiet. Instead, he publicly shamed her, she said. The Republican presidential candidate — who purchased the #MissUniverse Organization that year — said he had pushed Alicia to lose weight. "To that, I will plead guilty," he said, expressing no regret for his tactics. For Alicia, who was photographed by @emilyberl, the humiliation was unbearable. "After that episode, I was sick, anorexia and bulimia for 5 years," she said. Over the past 4 decades, #DonaldTrump ha...
Source: Kidney Notes - May 15, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
You might be a Wheat Belly when . . .
Alright: Stifle your guffaws, because this is serious stuff.
We all know that consumption of modern wheat and grains is associated with an astounding list of health problems, such as acid reflux, joint pains, behavioral and learning difficulties in children with ADHD and autism, depression, eating disorders like bulimia and binge eating, diabetes and pre-diabetes, and on and on. But the signature abnormality, the one clear-cut red flag on the surface: the infamous wheat belly, the probuterant “love handles” or “muffin top” that hints at underlying visceral fat, a hotbed of inflammation.
So how might John or Mary Q....
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 7, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten grains health Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Alana freed from her “big, fat bulimic life” by Wheat Belly
Alana shared this instructive story of finally being freed from food binging/bulimia by living the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
“Restored, Renewed and Illuminating!
“At age 16 I was chubby, self-conscious, and began my 30+ year adventure of my big, fat bulimic life.
“I used binging and purging as a way to have my cake and eat it too, and it worked! I lost weight, looked great and loved my delusional life. I tried so many times over the years to get help and recover. Unfortunately, everything I tried failed. Therapist, diet pills, even my son’s Adderall. Finally, at age 50 I said no more purging, which too...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 5, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories appetite binging bulimia eating disorders gluten grains Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
