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the-exercist: rayguncourtesan:the-exercist:mealswithmelissa:This is so true! I always think to myself “good for you” when I see a person who is obviously at the beginning of their fitness journey. We all have to start somewhere! #gym #goals #weightlossjourney #weightloss #fitnessjourney #havetostartsomewhere #bekind #goodforyou #slowandsteady #encouragement #motivationWhat makes a fat person “obviously at the beginning of their fitness journey”?  Why can’t a larger body be seen as inspirational without implying that they’re a beginner, just starting out, or are trying to change themselves? The use of fat bodies (that are typically devoid of heads and faces) for your own motivation is objectifying, disrespectful…

Did you hear about The University of Washington’s advice for prospective cheerleaders? The infographic, published last week by the university, suggested that coeds show up for tryouts with “curled or straight hair,” false eyelashes, and bare midriffs – and created quite a stir in the body image community. It’s clear that the university – and likely not the only one but maybe one of the only to advertise – was looking for a female prototype to populate its squad. Might women of color have a shot? Would women of diverse body types or varying degrees of femininity have any chance…

First, try not to categorize food as “good” or “bad.” Dr. Davis says it’s important to “recognize that we need to eat a balanced diet and variety of foods to be healthy.” So, yes, donuts and ice cream can be part of a balanced, healthy diet.The second way to change your thought process is to stop focusing on your appearance. Dr. Davis calls this “fat talk” and it can be very destructive to your self-esteem and take the focus away from your health, which is most important.The third major step is to stop associating being thin with being happy. Dr.…

1) Have you heard about the ANGI? Here’s their latest: The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative (ANGI) will be coming to a close in the following months and we need your help! We are still recruiting individuals with a history of anorexia and individuals without a history of an eating disorder to participate. But hurry, the deadline to participate is June 30, 2016. All that is required is a brief online questionnaire and a blood sample. To make it easier for you, we’ll even send the phlebotomist to wherever you are, nationwide!   Participants will receive a $25 Amazon gift card…

Rewarding children with food can trigger emotional eating as they get older, a new study has revealed.Parents who use overly controlling feeding practices with their children, such as using food as a treat, could be unintentionally teaching their offspring to rely on food to deal with their emotions.These children are more likely to ’emotionally eat’ as adults, and as a result could be at risk of gaining weight or enduring eating disorders.Dr Claire Farrow, a senior lecturer in psychology at Aston University, said: ‘As a parent, there is often a natural instinct to try and protect our young children from…

First up would be what we need to stop doing when we talk body image:No more just swapping out the “ism’s”: Big strong fit healthy girls just swaps out fattism with ableism and healthism.Body positivity and body love are terms that cannot be defined: if several centuries’ worth of poets, scholars and authors can’t nail down “love” then let’s leave the ephemeral out of the body and our experience of it.Loving one’s body is additionally profoundly perplexing to those with chronic illness of any kind.Positivity and love assign a “should” to sensory input and interpretation: the curse of the normative…

Last year, she spent two months at Eating Recovery Center in Denver, moving from residential care to day treatment, and began to gain control of her illness. “E.R.C. was the best place I’ve been,” she said about the center. “They were very individualized.”Ashley Bilkie, 29, had a different experience with E.R.C. When she returned home in February 2015 after about six months in the Denver program — her fourth stay in an inpatient program for treatment of anorexia and her second at E.R.C. — “I was getting sicker and sicker,” she said. She lost the weight she had gained back…

It’s not unequivocally impossible to reach remission when entire food groups are forbidden but it makes the chances of doing so far less likely. I won’t wade into all the misinterpretations of scientific data that reflect overblown correlations of restrictive diets with health outcomes—that’s for another time. For now, we are exclusively looking at the following conundrum: a history of an eating disorder and a desire to avoid eating meat for ethical reasons.Anecdotally from my experience in the past seven years, those more likely to enter full remission from an eating disorder embrace omnivorism. In fact, many currently in remission…

Mental health advocates and a pharmaceutical company joined Tuesday to urge Kansas legislators to endorse a bill adjusting state law to allow physicians to prescribe drugs with amphetamines as ingredients to treat binge eating disorders.The objective is to clear a path in Kansas for a drug developed by Shire and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January 2015 for moderate-to-severe binge eating disorders in adults. Forty-five states allow Vyvanse to be prescribed, but a 1984 Kansas law made that problematic by blocking certain prescriptions containing amphetamines.The Kansas Board of Healing Arts relied on its authority to issue…

Lindsey Hall knew she’d hit rock bottom when she woke up on a hotel room couch at 5 a.m., vomiting blood after an all-night eating binge. It was 2013 and the then-23-year-old had traveled from New York — where she was working part-time at a literary agency — to spend Fourth of July weekend with her dad’s family in Kansas.  “I truly didn’t care if I died that night,” Hall said, recalling the humiliation and terror she felt inside the endless cycle of bingeing, purging, and over-exercising she’d been ensnared by since high school. “I truly didn’t care if I died that night.” Thoughts…