While watching the inauguration of President Barack Obama, I experienced such intense emotion of joy for men and women who were able to overcome great odds. I couldn’t help taking a trip down memory lane. I come from a country with a history of deep seated prejudice. I wish I could say that all of [...]
You know your teen eats things that your probably wouldn’t approve of-especially when he or she visits friends or is at school. You want to make sure that your teen eats healthy, but you are not sure how to enforce these eating habits. At this age, nutrition is very important. It fuels the body and [...]
Fair question! I wanted to know this almost a million times. I wasn’t generally limited on faith. To tell the truth I possessed a reasonably constant quantity of faith: I could believe God for monetary resource and even bodily restoration but when it came down to this disordered way of eating, I had absolutely nothing. [...]
Cooking is an adventure and it can be fattening, too. If you take a quick glance through your favorite recipe cookbooks or at your recipe file, you can see how the calories and fat can really add up. That is not to mention all the sodium in common recipes-that is no good for you either. [...]
So how do you keep a binge from ruining your life? The remedy lays in RUNNING FROM PERFECTION OR “FAULTLESSNESS” Once and for all! In my 12 Week Online Program for women with eating disorders I converse the huge connection involving Perfectionism and Eating Disorders. If you have strong perfectionist propensities then you may very [...]
I have this nightmare: I am out in the cold, with the smokers, clutching my doughnut… This nightmare of mine was caused by an advertisement of Kaiser Permanente that was on TV recently. Needless to say, it made a big impression on me: I pondered over it for days. It’s the add where the highways [...]
I believe the better question that should be asked will probably be: Do men and women truly change? Should you talk to the well known or instead infamous Dr. House, you’ll likely receive a cynical snort. He passionately states that people certainly never really change their ways. Okay, guilty as charged, I don’t know precisely [...]
For many years I was living with the monster of perfectionism. I had no idea that this issue wasn’t part of my disposition, but instead an unhealthy way of living that could ruin my well being. I in no way suspected that perfectionism was one of several vital issues that i could not get rid [...]
In my years of struggling with overeating and bulimia I found two things that played a major role in my healing and gave me a huge shove toward victory and freedom on this difficult journey: CONSISTENCY and SURRENDER. I so wished and prayed that CONSISTENCY would come natural for me. It seems to me as [...]
Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an irrational fear of gaining weight coupled with a relentless pursuit of becoming thin. Anorexia is usually seen in adolescents and young women although men and children are also likely to experience the condition. Due to the distorted view of one’s body weight that anorexics suffer from, [...]