Work-life imbalance and unhealthy coping is common. For those without a healthy work-life balance, emotional eating often becomes a negative coping strategy. “Today sucked! What’s in the fridge?” “I can’t believe I’ve got to work all weekend yet again. I need a 7-11...
What keeps you from getting help for binge eating disorder - It’s too much to deal with right now What keeps individuals from seeking treatment beyond shame and guilt for having a disorder and the stigma of living in a larger body? Plain and simple, it’s not being...
We all wish we had more control. Control over our decision making, and control over our bodies. For those with binge eating disorder, the core issues is a loss of control around food. And the result is that person feels intense guilt and shame. “I should be able to...
Ours is a fat-phobic society. We can’t deny it. Researchers on public health issues find that individuals deemed overweight or obese are thought to be lazy, weak-willed, unsuccessful, unintelligent, lack self-discipline, have poor willpower, and are noncompliant with...
People living with binge eating disorder (BED) come to this disease from so many different perspectives. Food becomes an obsession to numb out emotional trauma, physical pain, mental illness, and more. It’s a transfer behavior when someone is trying to get free from...
Binge eating is a big part of more than just binge eating disorder. Bulimia consists of binge eating prior to purging, and is also a major component of anorexia nervosa binge/purge type. We’ve tried for countless years to understand what is so reinforcing about binge...
“What will it take for me to stop bingeing?” It’s a common question those who come to The Body Image Therapy Center pose to us. Many have tried diet after diet thinking it will end the obsession or abuse of food, but it only leads to more binge eating and for many the...
My mother has never been happy in her body. From the time she was 12 years old in 1952 and developed anorexia to her mid-70s now as a cyclical binge eater and restrictor, she has been unable to look at her body or the number on a scale and hear a kind word in her own...