I suffered from and eating disorder for many years. My intention now is to become an eating disorder recovery coach. Here is a short story of my journey.
My ed started in about 4th or 5th grade after another one of our moves. I started spending all my allowance on candy and stashing it in my room. I also started playing sick from school so I could stay home and eat while everyone was gone....
The author of "Eating With Your Anorexic" and director of F.E.A.S.T. is a mom on a mission to dispel the myths associated with anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders. An advocate of the family-based Maudsley approach, Collins thinks parents deserve to know that EDs are brain disorders and that parents really can be part of the solution.
Dr. Johanna Marie Mcshane has been working in the field of eating disorders treatment for 20 years. She was staff therapist and assessment/intake counselor for the Serenity Eating Disorders Program at Mt. Diablo Medical Center, an inpatient eating disorders program in Northern California, from 1991 to 1994. She was a founding member and director of psychotherapies at the Integrated Therapies...
Dr. Sari Fine Shepphird, author of the new book 100 Questions and Answers about Anorexia Nervosa, is a clinical psychologist and eating disorders specialist from Los Angeles, California. Working with a full spectrum of eating disorders issues, her experience on the subject spans nearly twenty years. In addition to maintaining an outpatient private practice, she provides consultation about...
After nearly a decade of anorexia, I'm learning how to love, laugh, and live again. And in no particular order, I'm also mom to a wonderful rescue cat, a science/medical writer, a jewelry designer, a pretty decent cook, a lover of coffee and hater of mornings, and a geek extraordinaire.
Recovering from a serious eating disorder is arguably one of the most difficult addictions to overcome. It is a constant battle, 24/7 with no relief, often not even in sleep. How do I know? I am going through it right now. I began struggling with an eating disorder at the age of 13 after being sexually abused day after day for an entire year. I have been to an intensive in-patient treatment...
I received my doctorate in Psychology from York University in Toronto, Ontario in 1987, I spent fifteen years as a staff psychologist in Millbrook Correctional Centre, a maximum-security prison run by the Ontario government. In 2003, I successfully escaped prison and went into full-time private practice.
I am a disaster management volunteer with the Red Cross. I am also an active participant...
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I am a clinical neuropsychologist by training, which means that I am trained to work with folks having psychological difficulties, especially as these relate to their brain. I worked in the field of brain injury rehabilitation for...ahem...many years.
But in the past few years, I have moved from helping folks adjust to their brain injuries to actually helping people change the way...
I am a fat man. My name is Israel Lagares. I used to be the kind of guy that was always in shape: a gym rat. But over the last few years I have fallen off tremendously. This is my final attempt to get back into shape and get to where I once was.
At the time of writing this weight loss blog, I am 348 pounds and 6 foot tall. I will list my weight weekly each Tuesday until I reach my target...
