How Not to Recover from Your Eating Disorder
September 7, 2016 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Featured, Recovery
Many people don’t recover from dysregulated eating because they insist on doing things exactly as they always have done them and can’t seem to break out of that rut. My hope is that writing about what to do in order to stay stuck might actually help you get unstuck. Toward that goal, here are 10 […]
Which Stage of Change Are You In?
July 6, 2016 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Anorexia, Binge Eating, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Empowerment, Featured, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Loving Your Body, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care
Most of us probably were raised to believe that if you want to change, you simply need to try hard enough and you will. In some circumstances, that can be true. Pushing yourself a wee bit more can sometimes initiate or accelerate change. But most of the time that we say we want to change, […]
Knowing the Difference Between Prodctivity and Creativity
July 3, 2016 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Creative Art, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Expressive Arts, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Livin in the Moment, Mental Health, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Stress Management
So many dysregulated eaters are also folks who feel a pressing need to stay busy all the time. Not just busy doing anything old thing, mind you, but filling their time with properly productive endeavors. Sadly, many are potentially or highly creative individuals who have let their need to be productive co-opt their creativity. In […]
Why the Biggest Loser Participants Are Now Big Gainers
June 1, 2016 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Depression, Dieting, Disordered Eating, EDNOS, Empowerment, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Obesity, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Treatment, Weight Stigma
I never watch “The Biggest Loser,” the hit TV show. It has always made me cringe and want to cry. Why? Because eating and weight is my field, I’ve known for decades that diets don’t work long term and can actually make you fatter. In fact, it may surprise you to learn that science knew […]
Eating Is Not a Life Skill
May 4, 2016 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Dieting, Disordered Eating, Healthy Coping, Intuitive Eating, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care
A client who’s recovering from alcoholism mentioned in a session that when she was anxious, she really, really, really craved a drink. We talked about how having a drink would affect her afterward—the shame and remorse she’d feel—and how, by drinking, she’d really, really, really be missing an opportunity to practice crucial life skills. Addictions […]
When You Can’t Get What You Really Want, You Eat
April 6, 2016 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Disordered Eating, Empowerment, Finding Your Voice, Prevention, Recovery, Self-Care, Stress Management
When dysregulated eaters think they can’t get what they really want in life, they too often turn to food. They’re not hungry (not a smidge!), but end up on a mission to find something edible to satisfy them. And heaven help anyone who gets in their way. I know just what this process is like […]
Don’t Let Regrets Stress You Out or Push You Toward Food
December 2, 2015 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Depression, Disordered Eating, Healthy Coping, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management
Many people get hung up on regrets. What they wish they’d had or done takes up more real estate in their heads than the lives they’re currently living. To dwell in regret is like walking down a street looking backwards. While making yourself miserable, you miss the only part of your life that matters: now. […]
What If Anxious Eating is About Things Insignificant and Inconsequential
November 4, 2015 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Anxiety, Binge Eating, Disordered Eating, Empowerment, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Mental Health, Obesity, Recovery, Self-Care, Stress Management
A while ago, imagine my surprise when I turned left at an intersection and went through a red light. (I expected the yellow light to become a green turn arrow as it usually did at this intersection). Knowing the intersection has a red-light camera, I figured I’d probably receive a ticket. Immediately, feeling anxiety rising, […]
Why Diets Don’t Work and Can Make You Fatter
October 7, 2015 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Dieting, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Featured, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Obesity, Recovery
Though you’re aiming to become a “normal” eater, do you ever secretly consider returning to dieting? Do you envy dieters’ rapid weight loss? Or blame yourself for a lack of will power and an inability to keep weight off? If you answered yes to any of these questions, please read on to learn the scientific […]
Diabulimia: Learning More about your Teen and their Type-1 Diabetes Diagnosis
June 14, 2015 by iaedp
Filed under Anorexia, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Nutrition, Over-Exercise, Over-Exercise, Parents, Prevention, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Treatment, Wellness, What to Say, How to Say It
Graciously reposted from www.LauraCipulloLLC.com Diabulimia is an unofficial term, used by both the American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, to define a serious condition effecting, but not limited to, adolescent girls diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. An adolescent diagnosed with diabulimia (known formally as ED-DMT1) is characterized by the intentional misuse and […]
