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65: Overcoming Body Hatred

Many people with food and body image issues hold on to the belief that the only thing keeping them from being fat or fatter is having to whip themselves in shape periodically, or getting mad at themselves when they “make a mistake.” The negative self-talk and body hatred that goes along with the diet mentality does not address in any way the underlying reason for your binge eating, binge eating disorder, compulsive overeating, food addiction, or emotional eating.

64: Do I Need to Lose Weight to be Healthy? – Part 2

Research from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study demonstrates that the true causes of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and other chronic diseases may be related to your childhood.  

Getting thin(ner) won’t fix your childhood experiences.  But healing from these experiences can give you help with food addiction, freedom from emotional eating and less food obsessions from food addiction.

63: Do I Need to Lose Weight to be Healthy? – Part 1

I have so many patients who come to me absolutely certain that they have to be thin in order to be healthy.  Usually, these are women who have been dieting, hating their bodies, being obsessed with food, binge eating, compulsive overeating, or who identify as emotional eaters or individuals with food addiction.   They may be as young as 25 or as old as 70.  What they have in common is the desperate need to be thin. 

59: Food Addiction Help

Food addiction, like addiction to drugs or alcohol, often begins as a way to manage stress, turn up the volume on pleasant emotions (like happiness or comfort), or dampen uncomfortable feelings (like anxiety, anger, or sadness). Since 2010, researchers at Yale University have been using the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) to identify people with food addiction. Binge eating disorder shares a number of characteristics with food addiction.

57: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Awareness Is Not Enough. Implicit bias makes it acceptable to discriminate against people for race but also for size, sexual orientation, age, and abilities.  You may have a hard time identifying with bias based on skin color, but maybe you’re in one of the other groups that have been discriminated against.  Remember, if there isn’t justice for all, there won’t be justice for any.  

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