A teensy rant about ED recovery “experts”

You’ve seen them everywhere. Their method will help you recover from your ED, become an intuitive eater, lose weight with normal eating, mimic the habits of slim people, yadda yadda.
They have qualifications out the wazoo: degrees, scientists, papers published, highly respected in their fields, therapists, some of them have even lost a little weight themselves. [...]

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Can you recover from your eating disorder?

Trisha Gura’s book, Lying in Weight, just arrived. Until I read about her book I had more or less decided that I wouldn’t buy any more ED books, since I am feeling very recovered from the 30 year long compulsive eating habit I had. But Scientific American had such a compelling interview with her, I [...]

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Can you recover from your eating disorder?

Trisha Gura’s book, Lying in Weight, just arrived. Until I read about her book I had more or less decided that I wouldn’t buy any more ED books, since I am feeling very recovered from the 30 year long compulsive eating habit I had. But Scientific American had such a compelling interview with her, I [...]

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What you put in your head is more important than what you put in your mouth

Scientific American has a great podcast this week for those of us interested in eating disorders.
Trisha Gura is a science writer who has written a book about women with eating disorders. The main point of her book is to understand how eating disorders affect women, even after they’ve recovered. Very important for anyone in recovery.
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Book Meme

At least I think it’s called a meme. I’m still pretty new to this blog lingo. Here’s a quote from Wikipedia:
The term “meme” (IPA: /miːm/, rhyming with “theme”. Commonly pronounced in the US as /mɛm/, rhyming with “gem”), coined in 1976[1] by the biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a “unit of cultural information” which [...]

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It’s only called “The Secret” because it’s too stupid to make public

In spite of the common bulls#!t recently spouted by the authors of The Secret, I do understand and believe in the power of positive thinking. A person can make huge changes in their thinking just by choosing to focus on something they want rather than something they don’t want.

What’s wrong with the book? The [...]

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Look what I’m reading

A nice fantasy, with strong female characters. I’ve just started, so I don’t know how it will turn out yet. Tinna’s Promise
I love female characters, especially ones that overcome their obstacles. Some of my favorite books are biographies, but I especially like the ones about normal people in great historical circumstances. The book I’m just [...]

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What experts don’t (but really do) tell you about intuitive eating

There are some wonderful books out about intuitive eating.
Intuitive Eating by Tribole
Rules of Normal Eating by Koenig
Seven Secrets of Slim People by Hansen
Diets Don’t Work by Schwartz
Breaking Free From Emotional Eating by Roth
Overcoming Overeating by Hirschmann and Munter
These books and many more are great. Written from the author’s perspective, they tell us of their experiences, [...]

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Diets Don’t Work

Just got a new book, Diets Don’t Work. The third edition by the author is a wonderful workbook to help the diet survivor create her own recovery plan.
There are lots of exercises, and the late doctor recommends that we write them down to increase impact and retention. So here goes.

My present morning weight is 162 [...]

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