Do I Have an Eating Disorder?

Per the American Psychological Association, there are three main eating disorders.

"Eating disorders are abnormal eating habits that can threaten your health or even your life. 

They include:

• Anorexia nervosa: Individuals believe they’re fat even when they’re dangerously thin and restrict their eating to the point of starvation.
• Bulimia nervosa: Individuals eat excessive amounts of food, then purge by making themselves vomit or using laxatives.
• Binge eating: Individuals have out-of-control eating patterns, but don’t purge. 

Adapted from the Encyclopedia of Psychology

More About Eating Disorders

Almost everyone has concerns about their health and/or their weight occasionally. However, people with eating disorders take these concerns to an extreme.

If you are not sure how to proceed and you believe that you may have an eating disorder try moving forward with a few of these positive actions:

1. Get Help, find a Psychologist or other person that you can trust to help you move forward towards health
2. Get treatment for your anorexia and bulimia
3. Therapy can help restore the real you, not the sick you!
4. Find treatment for binge eating

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Lady Gaga's Weight Gain

Lady Gaga's weight gain brings up some issues and questions. Do you sometimes wonder, if you had it all what would it be like? What would look like? What would you own? And what would you eat? 

Well, I would look fab, because I would have a personal trainer, weight loss coach, and all the money and time in the world to do what my heart desired. Including working out instead of stressing about money and working an hourly job while wishing for something better.

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As if weight gain were only affecting the poor and middle class. LOL!! That's funny. So what is it, what causes people to gain weight? It's not money, it's not a lifestyle, so it must be the attitude. One's attitude throughout the day, the amount of rest and peace they receive, or the pleasure that they find in every day.

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Style News reports that "After receiving quite a bit of negative attention for her recent weight gain (she put on 25 pounds), Lady Gaga took to her social media website, LittleMonsters.com, to respond — and to reveal a painful secret."

On Tuesday, Gaga posted a photo (above) of herself wearing nothing but a yellow bra and underwear, along with this caption: “Bulimia and anorexia since I was 15.” With the picture, she announced the launch of a new movement, “A Body Revolution 2013,” meant to encourage body acceptance. More on this in tomorrow's blog post.

Regardless, she doesn't look that big to me, try analyzing your feelings at this moment. How do you feel when you read about celebrity weight gain? Are you nervous? Oh no! Lady Gaga gained weight! Does that mean that I could gain weight too? 

Chances are if you are reading this article you are either thrilled by other people's problems or are truly looking for inspiration to propel your own motives. With weight gain, there are usually psychological issues that circulate throughout your life to prompt you to use food as a crutch for emotional support. 

Sensa may work, but it will leave you high and dry with your emotional baggage that had once prompted the weight gain in the first place. My hopes, in the end, would be that Lady Gaga recognizes her power over the population, especially the female population, and inspires women to no longer think bad of themselves and to move into something healthier.

Matthew McConaughey: Why would the fit & attractive Matthew lose 30lbs?

Matthew McConaughey was recently caught with a physique nothing like the hot and sexy Matthew that we are all so used too. Once voted by People Magazine as the sexiest man of the year, what would make him drop an incredible 30lbs? Film of course, a new film in which McConaughey starred in in 2013.

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How did he do it?
When asked what weight loss method he used for loosing so much weight, well not eating was the answer. In what seems like a trend in the movie industry for absolute devotion to their work; discipline, coaches and maybe no food around probably helped out a bit. But don't get any bright anorexic ideas there are better ways to losing weight than starving yourselves.

He had mission though, and hopefully does not plan to stay that thin, because although some men look good thin he looks better tan and built! Stay tuned next year for "The Dallas Buyer's Club".

Video: Matthew McConaughey Weight Loss: 'Magic Mike' Actor Skinny for Movie

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Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition - Challenging 335-lb Woman to Change

Do you ever feel like we are all heading to those slug like morbid creatures on Wall - E? They had given up basic human activities to eat junk food 24-7 and use the computer and television to replace human contact.

So unattached from where humans had originally started as survivors, hunters and gathers, communities that cared for one another. Do you find your bottom growing larger and numbing out from everyday sensations? Are you unhappy with your weight but are too lazy to move forward into a solution?

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It's funny how we get stuck in ruts. Stuck and unwilling to move into what we have to do, or until we feel so bad that we are inwardly forced to do something. What is your block? What's keeping you from advancing yourself into something you truly wish to be?

Extreme Makeover is known for helping those in need, helping "situation victims" that have got stuck in that everyday rut, usually due to situations out of their control. Now Extreme Makeover has gone weight loss. Granted I live in Southern California, one of the healthiest (or so they say) areas in the country.

I think it is due to the unearthly amount of sunshine and nice weather we have year round. I have lived in some " bad weather" locations including Key West, Georgia, Vermont and even Seattle and let me tell you weather means a lot. Although with the proper motivation, exercise can be achieved everywhere. Even if that means vhs tapes with the curtains closed.

Learn more about what happens to Sally on Extreme Makeover's Weight Loss Edition when she is challenged to give it her all. Go Sally, and for all of my followers, don't give up because beyond your body your life is worth it!

Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition' challenges 335-lb Sally to change