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eating disorders

Talking to Your Kids about Weight

October 12, 2011 Read the full article →

Parents have a lot of tough topics to bring up with their kids. Sex, drugs, smoking, drinking, stranger danger, the internet, bullying and appropriate friends are fairly standard. But with a third of American kids being overweight or obese, a lot of parents’ lists get even longer and touchier. According to a recent survey by [...]

Men and Eating Disorders

September 2, 2011 Read the full article →

“I was aware of eating disorders due to media coverage, but eating disorders are usually presented as female problems so I never made the connection with myself. Looking back, I can see that I had behaviors associated with an eating disorder from my late teens into my twenties but I never considered I might have [...]

School Weight Issues Can Linger

August 28, 2011 Read the full article →

What we experience as children and teenagers in school can stay with us for the rest of our lives.  If we’re fortunate, those experiences are fun, exciting, and filled with personal growth but that’s not always the case.  For some, memory lane is filled with pot holes, rusty nails, and dead ends. As a psychologist [...]

Addressing the Holidays’ Weighty Concerns

December 21, 2010 Read the full article →

I received so many good questions from readers about weight and exercise during the holidays, I’m devoting another column to the subject. Next time we’ll tackle the thorny issue of New Year’s resolutions. Determine what’s behind urge to binge I have problems with binging and the holidays make it worse. What can I do about [...]

Why Do I Feel Suddenly Fatter for No Reason?: How the Mind Can Make You Feel Fatter

November 7, 2010 Read the full article →

Some people can feel fatter or thinner from one moment to the other for no apparent reason. Understanding how the mind can do this can save a lot of heartache. The brain is a powerful and complicated organ. It has the ability to make a person feel fatter from one day to another and even [...]

How Depression Can Affect Weight: Dealing with Weight Problems and Depression

September 16, 2010 Read the full article →

Trying to lose weight while battling depression can be a difficult task but some logical advice can make the process easier. Being depressed makes any task more difficult and dealing with weight can be especially hard. Many people experience problems with weight gain when depressed and there are logical reasons for it. Some Reasons Why [...]

Why People Lose Control of Eating: What Causes Compulsive Eating or Binging

September 1, 2010 Read the full article →

Most people with problems controlling their eating think that it’s caused by some weakness on their part. In reality the problem has more to do with the human brain. Compulsive eating problems are not rare today, but for the person experiencing the problem, it feels like no one could possibly understand what it’s like. Sadly, [...]

I See Myself as Fat But Others Don’t

June 22, 2010 Read the full article →

Warning Signs of Body Image Distortion There are people who insist that they are overweight when others continually tell them that they’re not. They see fat where others don’t. Who’s right? Everyone distorts her body size to some extent. After all, people can only look at themselves from within or through a mirror. They can [...]

A Mother’s Gift to Your Young Daughter

June 2, 2010 Read the full article →

In the late 1960’s and 70’s Twiggy became the first prominent teenage model.  She weighed 90 pounds and was the idol of 14 and 15 year-old girls at the time.  Her body had no curves, no appreciable fat, and a twig-like appearance. I was an adolescent during that era myself and remember well the huge [...]

Why I Wrote My Book: It’s Not Another Diet Book

June 8, 2009 Read the full article →

I’ve been asked why I wrote my book Mind Over Fat Matters: Conquering Psychological Barriers to Weight Management. I spent over 30 years studying and treating eating disorders. I saw many women and men completely recover from eating disorders and go on to be “normal eating individuals.”  I didn’t want to write another diet book [...]