The skull fracture endures

More stress, more anxiety and more tension.  That’s what this week has been.  My daughter’s fiancé has a skull fracture from playing softball and slight bleeding in the head.  Now he is experiencing mild seizures. 

Two nights ago he was out with his dad for dinner while my daughter went to work and he was sitting [...]

Dress Shopping Tonight

August 25, 2010

In the new saga with my daughter being engaged I thought I would share with you that she still has NOT told her grandparents on my ex-husband’s side.  Although this week, she has a good excuse.  There was an accident.

Her fiancé was playing softball on Sunday and he was up at bat.  He [...]

Binge Eating Disorder Carries an Increased Risk of a Suicide Attemp

By Guest Author Jason Mesnic

Binge eating disorder basically involves the person going through episodes of compulsive overeating. The disease can come in two forms…one where the person eats non-stop for 1-2 hours, and one where the person eats smaller portions more or less non-stop. According to the National Institutes of Health binge eating statistics, it [...]

My Daughter is Engaged!

August 17, 2010

There sure is a lot of happiness on engagement night.  My daughter Melissa just got engaged about 4 weeks ago to her boyfriend of a year and a half and we are so excited for them.  They are starting on a wonderful new journey together.  I really do believe that they will have [...]

Brand New Updated Edition is Now Available

August 16, 2010

After completing an exhausting update of The BreakAway Program, the new Step-by-Step Binge Eating Disorder Treatment Program is now done.

The entire 425 plus page program has been printed in color and is now in 5 hardcover binders (one for each module) so that our clients can make notes, highlight paragraphs, use the journal [...]

New Years Resolutions

I’ve been thinking about what New Years Resolutions I might want to make and so far I have the same list as I always have every year! Which by the way I never keep.

1. Firm up this saggy body using weights.
2. Make a huge amount of money and eliminate debt. (yeah right…)
3. Exercise more.
4. [...]

Diabetes and Binge Eating Disorder

Let’s first talk about what Diabetes is because I know for me when I was studying nutrition it was rather confusing.  There are two types (type 1 and type 2).  We are going to focus on type 2.  The following is from webmd.com

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Causes of Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetes is a number of diseases that involve problems [...]

Does Diversion Work to Avoid Binge Eating?

I have to laugh because when my daughter was little, like 2 years old, I used diversion A LOT to get her to stop doing the unwanted behavior she was doing! And for the most part it worked. It would have done me no good to try to reason with her because her [...]

Can I Be Any More Stressed Out?

My daughter was at Girl Scout Camp all last week and the weather was less than cooperative. We had thunder storms, tornado watches and flooding most of the week.

The weird thing is that the day would start out decent like it was going to surprise you and be sunny later on but then this [...]

The Secret Shame of Binge Eating

In Thursday’s post from the study USA Today did on Binge Eating Disorders, there was a sentence that read, “estimates of eating-disorder cases are probably low because people are very ashamed of these and tend to under-report them”. I can only imagine what the true number of cases would be if everyone reported it.

The secret [...]