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Brand New Updated Edition is Now Available

Nadine Ann — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:19:33 +0000

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 in each module easier and go back to review the program easier. It’s wonderful! The eating disorder treatment program now covers more ground with more examples and lessons.

The website is updated for new clients but existing clients can still use the member login area to view the workbooks.

Best wishes for healing!
Nadine

New Years Resolutions

Nadine Ann — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:08:32 +0000

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. Love more.
5. Spend less money.

Yup that should just about do it. I would love to say that I will keep these resolutions but really it’s just like starting any other goal. I have set it WAY too big and never bother to break it down. Maybe I am just not that serious about it then or I am overwhelmed with it so I discard them and say it’s too difficult.

So let’s do this together and set small goals that we can accomplish. Take my first resolution to “Firm up this saggy body using weights”. I could break this down and set my goal to be “I will do 3 arm curls on each arm today” and do that for 4 days. Now really, how simple is that! I can do THAT.

Then I would make the goal be “I will do 6 arm curls on each arm today”. Easy.

Do this with me friends…take your resolutions and break them down into tiny goals. We might actually have a shot of ACHIEVING them!

Three ways to stop overeating … for good – The Herald Dispatch

Nadine Ann — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:24:47 +0000

TITLE: Get Healthy Tri-State: Three ways to stop overeating … for good – The Herald Dispatch

NEWS Get Healthy Tri-State: Three ways to stop overeating … for good

December 26, 2009 @ 12:00 AM

The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington WV

Next time you’re obsessing about another holiday eggnog or chocolate bombe cake a la mode, ask yourself this: “Would you shove that stuff into a friend’s body?” Mouth too full to answer? Use these strategies to nix bad habits and eat right:

1. Get lost (in your mind). When you want to eat to feel better, walk around the block (go ahead and put on your boots; we’ll wait) and think about the bad feelings that are driving you to the fridge. Maybe you can start sorting them out instead of hiding them behind three extra inches of abdominal fat. If the walk isn’t enough, try meditation or prayer. In some people, these calming focusers quiet the subconscious drive to eat.

2. Plan. Big decisions about food need to be made in the supermarket, not in your kitchen. Avoid filling your home with junk, and it’s easier to eat right. Shop the edges of the supermarket rather than the middle.

3. Pay it forward. One of the keys to waist-size success is how you balance two competing forces — immediate gratification (those chips) versus delayed gratification (a better body, better sex, fewer wrinkles, not to mention a longer life!). It’s tough, because immediate gratification is hard to resist. So try flipping the immediate gratification into a long-term consequence, and turning the delayed gratification into an immediate, visual picture. Like this: Think hard about the negative consequences of the chips (picture a clogged artery). Now visualize yourself two sizes smaller with all the grandchildren you want (or just Brad Pitt or Megan Fox lying next to you).

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Does Diversion Work to Avoid Binge Eating?

Nadine Ann — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:15:55 +0000

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 undeveloped brain would have laughed me out the door.

So would it be safe to say that diversion should work for adults who want to stop doing the behavior they are doing because their brains are highly developed?

ABSOLUTELY NOT! It’s why diversion WON’T work.

Diversion is only going to last for so long and then your highly developed brain is going to realize it has some major unsolved issues it needs to deal with but isn’t, and your brain is going to tell your body to go ahead and binge to cover it up.

So forget the cover ups, forget avoiding dealing with crappy situations and stress at home and work and get to the root cause of binging so you can go out and play golf for the fun of it!

-Nadine

Can I Be Any More Stressed Out?

Nadine Ann — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:54:51 +0000

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 weird Dorothy of Kansas weather would kick in around noon and would literally spiral downward until the kids got off the bus from camp.

One day Jess got off the bus looking like she had seen a ghost. Apparently it isn’t much fun being in a thunderstorm in a mess hall in the woods.

Needless to say, I have been completely stressing about the weather for this week because sure enough she is back at camp!

So I need a mass prayer for my daughter please!!!!!!!

-Nadine Ann

photo credit: Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes

The Secret Shame of Binge Eating

Nadine Ann — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:05:26 +0000

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 shame the study mentioned is so very real. I had incredible shame and hid my binge eating from everyone including my husband. What’s funny (not in a haha way though) is that I hid my disorder from the people I knew would NOT judge me! But there is this secret feeling a binge eater has inside that tells her to hide because if people saw what she really ate they would be repulsed and lose respect for her instantly.

Now I know if you are reading this and you are a family member of a binge eater you are shaking your head saying, “I would never do that!”

I know.

But if you have never walked in the shoes of a binge eater you simply can’t know the secret shame.

Now I ask you if you are a binge eater why you think we can’t admit this to the people we love? Is it because we are not ready to begin healing? Or that we think they will kick us in the ass instead of help us? Are the relationships we are in that bad for us that we feel we cannot speak of a food disorder that affects millions of people around the world? Are we just not educated enough about the disorder?

I think in the end it is up to each one of us to decide on WHAT we want to feel, WHEN we want to feel it and HOW long we want to feel it for.

Think of what your life would be like if you did not have an eating disorder or secret shame.

-Nadine Ann, C.N., H.H.P.

Industry News About Binge Eating Disorder

Nadine Ann — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:13:05 +0000

Study: Binge eating is No. 1 food disorder in USA

(BINGE, BY DEFINITION
Binge eating disorder “is quite different from the ordinary munching you might do for the Super Bowl,” says Harrison Pope Jr., a researcher who treats people with eating disorders at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. People who have the disorder “can’t stop once they get started even though they feel uncomfortably full.”)

By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY
Binge eating disorder — frequent, uncontrolled bouts of eating without purging — is the most common eating disorder in the USA, more widespread than anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, according to the first large-scale national survey on these conditions.

The binge disorder, which afflicts 3.5% of women and 2% of men and lasts an average of eight years, can lead to severe obesity, says lead researcher James Hudson, director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.

Such people eat large amounts of food in short periods of time at least twice weekly. They feel out of control when they are overeating, Hudson says. “Binge eating disorder may explain in part why it’s so difficult for some people to control their weight” and why some become severely obese, he says.

A 5-foot-6 woman is severely obese if she weighs 248 pounds or more; a 5-foot-9 man falls in this category if he weighs 270 pounds or more, he says.

Hudson and colleagues analyzed data from about 3,000 people who were asked about their mental health in face-to-face interviews in a separate national study. Findings in the journal Biological Psychiatry:

• About 0.9% of women and 0.3% of men said that at some point in their lives they have had anorexia nervosa, which is self-starvation. It lasted an average of 1.7 years.

• 1.5% of women and 0.5% of men said they have had bulimia nervosa, the binge-and-purge disorder that often involves self-induced vomiting. It lasted an average of 8.3 years.

• Fewer than half the people with the disorders got treatment.

• People with the eating disorders often have other mental health problems.

Estimates of eating-disorder cases “are probably low because people are very ashamed of these and tend to under-report them,” Hudson says. The disorders have become more prevalent in the past 50 years, he says.

Obesity and Overeating

Nadine Ann — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:32:39 +0000

What do you think happened to Kirstie Alley and her 83 pound weight gain after losing it for Jenny Craig Weight Loss Center? Do you think the pressure just got to her and once she had gotten to her goal and left the public eye she just caved in?

I talk about dieting all the time and how it doesn’t work but her weight gain of 83 pounds was incredibly fast. She has admitted to binge eating.

I think she was doomed from the start.

Here’s 3 quick reasons why:

She never dealt with her underlying issues behind her eating disorder which she definitely had for years (just look at her past few years of binging)
She was in the public eye and felt fear about not reaching the goal which is the ONLY reason why she made it. Money talks but when the contract was done, so was she.
She made drastic changes to her diet instead of very slow and tiny changes that her brain could “digest”!

So now she is back to being obese, unhappy and binging more than ever. She has promised to lose the weight AGAIN! Shall we watch her journey to self destruction one more time? Think anyone will ever figure out that if something didn’t work in the past that it won’t work in the future?