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How do I Find Balance and Peace?
Hi. I'm 32 years old and have been overweight since about age 10. Over the last 2 years, I've lost weight with Weight Watchers several times. I lose weight and then start gaining it back. I am in the gaining part of this cycle right now. In the past I've lost weight in a variety of unhealthy ways, and Weight Watchers seemed the most sensible. But I...
Body Image: What Else Can I Do?
I've never had trouble with my self-image until this summer when I began getting cellulite on my thighs and noticed that my stomach is no longer as flat as it used to be. By no means am I obese, but in all of the BMI calculators I've seen, I am just on the verge of being overweight. I run cross-country and since that ended I've continued to run e...
Why Am I Accumulating Fat This Way?
Hi, I have had tendancy toward anorexia in past. I now eat a lot more. I have put on fat quite significantly from my waist down and have gone up a jean size, but from my waist up I look emaciated. Why is this? I no longer exercise. Is this why my legs and bottom have accumulated the fat, but not my top half? I am also osteopenic. Does this effect w...
How Many Calories Do I Need for Athletics?
I wanted to thank you for responding to my question. I have posted the question/reply below. I am having a VERY hard time finding a dietician who is familiar with eating disorders and athletes. One year ago I was in-patient at Remuda Ranch and when I left they said I needed 1,900 calories a day WITHOUT exercise to remain *** pounds. But when I went...
Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. I have struggled with eating disorders for more than 13 years of my life and I just recently went to counseling to help me work through some of my issues. I decided to try to get some help because I have two baby girls now and I am terrified of passing my unhealthy habits on to them. And, it ha...
How Do I Get Healthy in Mind and Body?
As long as I can remember, I always have been trying to lose weight the wrong way. Finally, in my mid-to-late twenties I stopped, knowing that I was just hurting myself more in the long run. I lost ** pounds by eating healthy. I have gone up and down over the past six years in that ** pound range. Even at my lightest, I was **-** pounds overweigh...
Tangled Mess of Disordered Eating
My history with eating is a tangled mess. Where to begin? As a first grader, I remember my mom putting me on diets. She was bulimic, using laxatives. Though I was not overweight, I had family members who were. I guess she projected her weight issues onto me and there began her attempt to control my weight. I can remember sitting at the lunch table ...
Can an Overweight Person Have an ED?
I am an overweight person (legitimately overweight in terms of BMI) who either has absolutely no control over what I am eating or controls it so much that I will only eat 200-300 calories per day. Each time that I set out to lose weight and become healthier, it goes fine for about two weeks, and then I go off the deep end and only let the very, ver...
I'm writing because I've always been overweight (according to that BMI and doctors) and have never been able to lose the weight in my life. I think the most I've ever lost was five pounds in a period of six weeks and that was on Weight Watchers, which I couldn't eat all they wanted me to eat on that plan. I don't over-eat, although I probably don'...
I'm 18 years old and have way better things I should be worrying about than food. I've had somewhat of a traumatic childhood: my parents got divorced when I was 13 and my mother got remarried and moved my sister and I across the country. We've adapted well, and I'm grateful I live where I do and glad I made the friends that I have. I know I should ...
My name is Drew and I am a 25-year-old male writing to ask a question about a chewing and spitting behavior I occasionally engage in. I've read the other posts on your website about this behavior and wanted to follow up about my experience with chewing and spitting. I have been overweight for most of my adult life and in the last year and half be...
Do I Have To Gain Weight To Be Healthy?
I unintentinally lost over ** pounds gradually over a year or so. I wasn't doing anything other than constantly being "careful" and "healthy" so that I wouldn't gain weight - not trying to lose and not being way radical. Anyway, the doctor recently told me to gain 20-25 pounds and to eat this and that and my response inside was alarming. For the fi...
Three weeks ago today, I started on the South Beach Diet. Almost immediately, I could tell my clothes fit looser. Today, I was able to get in jeans I outgrew two years ago. I hurried to the scale and have lost no pounds. I listened to your video on this and it made perfect sense to me, other than the fact that I have not been exercising or work...
I am twenty years old and have had anorexia for six years. I have started to regain weight but I have an obsession that the faster I gain weight, the more fat I will store. This is greatly affecting my ability to be healthy. Do you have any advice to help me get this notion out of my head? -Triona...
I've just discovered your website, Finding Balance, and I've devoured (no pun intended) a lot of the information there. I'm curious as to why you don't feature the book, Intuitive Eating, and why you don't refer to that type of eating in any of your videos or articles. It's apparent you subscribe to the non-dieting approach, but is there something ...
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