National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAwareness Week) is an annual campaign to bring public attention to the needs of people with eating disorders and their families. The focus of this year’s campaign is early detection and intervention. In the US, 20 million women and 10 million men will struggle with an eating disorder at some point in their life. Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder. Read about the symptoms of Binge Eating Disorder and take this survey to see if you may have BED. While the diagnostic criteria focus on the binge part of the cycle, many people don’t realize that Binge Eating Disorder and restrictive dieting often co-exist. And while it may seem that dieting is a result of binge eating, it …

Recently, I came face to face with my Restrictive Eating Cycle and was one teetering step away from diving right back into my old habits and patterns. Thankfully, I have this practice of mindful eating in my toolbox and was able to redirect myself back to an Instinctive Eating Cycle after I had taken healthy eating too far. But I’m not kidding you, it was a very close call! I had to laugh when I returned to work on Monday, and sitting in my inbox was Michelle May’s article, A Diet by Any Other Name is Still a Diet! I couldn’t believe Michelle had written about the exact experience I had just had! Here’s what happened using the seven questions Michelle suggested in A Diet by Any …

I’m preparing for a 2-day workshop at the Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference this April where I’ll have the opportunity to introduce health and wellness professionals to the Am I Hungry? concepts. Specifically, we’ll be focusing on the Mindful Eating Cycle which, as you may already know from personal experience, is a practical and powerful model for recognizing and resolving the drivers of problematic eating and sedentary lifestyles. I’m particularly excited about this workshop because we’ll have time together to explore the application of this model not only to eating, but to other aspects of our lives as well, such as work and relationships. One example of the wide application of mindfulness-based strategies occurred to me recently as I was feeling fragmented and stressed …

How many calories do you need to burn to eat ________? None. You already have the right to eat it. Based on a recent media frenzy about an article in The BMJ1 titled “Food should be labelled with the exercise needed to expend its calories,” you’d think that the idea of labeling food with how many minutes you’d have to exercise to burn it off is a new one. It’s not, and in fact, much of the media coverage pointed out the many problems with this idea: Food labeling is a complex science. It hasn’t been studied or proven to have any effect. Studies on calorie labeling on menus does not consistently lead consumers to order lower-calorie items, so why would this? …

For me, starting a diet was always a mixture of hope—that this diet would be the magic bullet—and worry that I wouldn’t be able to stick with it. If you have ever dieted, you may also be exceedingly familiar with this yo-yo effect of being “on the diet” or “off the diet.” Clearly, in order for real change to happen, the changes we make need to be sustainable, which of course diets are not. Instead Am I Hungry? programs provide a comprehensive road map for real, lasting change in how you relate to food. And to jump start your understanding of how eating may have been your way of coping with the stress in your life, consider joining Dr. Michelle May and me for the …

Belfast NewsletterWhat's really eating you? Crack your bingeing codeBelfast NewsletterResearch reveals that more than 725,000 people in the UK are affected by an eating disorder, the main disorders are cited as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder (BED). Binge eating disorder is characterized by compulsively overeating huge …

LifeHacker India7 Reasons You May Be Binge EatingLifeHacker IndiaBinge eating is a disorder characterized by uncontrollable urge to keep munching in which people consume a large amount of food and feel powerless to control it. Binge eaters often munch even when they are not hungry and continue to eat even after …

The Sun'I was binge eating and it was spiralling out of control': Takeaway addict loses 15 STONE after getting wedged in …The SunA MAN who was hooked on KFC has lost an incredible 15 stone after he almost got trapped in his car. Jason Storer, 34, from Ibstock, Leicestershire, ballooned to a whopping 35st 11lb after gorging on junk food every day washed down with Jack Daniels and …and more »

Irish IndependentBinge-eating boxer dog survives Great British bark-offIrish Independent1 Ray the boxer, with his owner Jasmine Quick (right) and PDSA vet Erin Beale, who wolfed down the entire contents of a baking cupboard (PDSA/PA). A binge-eating boxer dog created his own Great British bark-off after wolfing down the entire contents of …and more »

News-Medical.netWhat is Binge-Eating Disorder?News-Medical.netBinge-eating disorder is an eating disorder that involves recurrent episodes of binge eating, when an individual eats abnormally large quantities of food in a short period of time. Unlike in other eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, this is not …

FiercePharmaAbilify gets potential for binge eating, sex urges added to labelFiercePharmaOne of the potential side effects listed for the antipsychotic Abilify and its generics is an uncontrollable urge to gamble. But the FDA is now saying that does not nearly encompass the uncontrolled impulses the drug can inflame. And so it is now …Mental Health Drug Aripiprazole May Cause Uncontrollable Urges To Gamble, Shop, Binge Eat And Have Sex: FDATech TimesCompulsive Sex and Gambling Linked to Abilify, Says U.S. Food & Drug AdministrationDaily Hornet (satire) (press release) (registration) (blog)FDA Warns of Compulsive Urges with AripiprazoleManaged Care magazineall 11 news articles »

Yahoo NewsIT HAPPENED TO ME: Going Vegan Cured My Binge Eating DisorderYahoo NewsI started binge eating in high school. Before I got on the morning bus, I'd stuff my face with anything in sight. I'd have leftovers from the night before, make myself oatmeal and eggs, and then binge on saltine crackers and Diet Coke until I had …