It’s just as hard to be Ken as it is to be Barbie
When you hear of someone with an Eating Disorder, do you usually think of a pale under nourished frail woman or a sad depressed chubby housewife? Maybe you think of someone famous like Princess Diana or Karen Carpenter? Whatever the image is in your mind, it isn’t...
Is There a “Weight” Limit to Your Love?
Is There a “Weight” Limit to Your Love? We turn ourselves into perfect images; all wrapped up in ideal bodies, hoping people will buy us. The image seems to contain no flaws, healthy regimes, and enthusiastic workout routines. Every day we are saturated with images of...
The “Big” Lie in Front of Bigorexia
Gotta Get Those Gains Bro! Bigorexia was officially recognized in 1997. Alternate names for the condition are “muscle dysmorphia” and “reverse anorexia.” The main characteristic is a misguided belief that the body is never muscular enough. Normal weightlifters admit...
Orthorexia and Bigorexia trendy Eating Disorders? Part 2
Orthorexia is it a eating disorder? Let’s start with a brief description of what orthorexia is: “Having orthorexia nervosa not only means that people are obsessed with eating “healthily,” but also that they have a specific attitude to food, they prepare...
Orthorexia and Bigorexia trendy Eating Disorders? Part 1
The purpose for the blog is because I have been asked a couple interesting questions. One client asked me if it was ok to take HGH (human growth hormone). His claim was that it is ok because it’s considered “California Sober” to be overly muscular. That didn’t make...
“It is in the Shit where the most Beautiful flowers grow.”
“It is in the Shit where the most Beautiful flowers grow.” –Tanya The feeling of rejection is nothing new to me. I have been rejected by lovers, employers, friends, even my dog left me for my dad but those rejections happened when I was a drunk, anorexic/bulimic...
Another year of transforming my Ego into Spirit (35-36)
Another year of transforming my Ego into Spirit (35-36) The middle of last year was terrible! My beloved 27-year-old fiancé left me because he somehow figured out 3 months after proposing, “that we had different beliefs and values.” Ahhhh, hello, that is the shit you...
Why Do We Value Thinness?
Why Do We Value Thinness? First: We have to ask ourselves why we value “thinness” so much. What does “thin” really mean? If “fat” is “bad,” then it logically follows that we are associating a whole lot of “good” into “thin.” Have you ever stopped and thought about...
Diet Tea, The Promises
Flatten Your Belly, Reduce Bloat and Get Rid of Toxins Without Strict Dieting!!! OMG I want all of that please! Here is what they don’t tell you on the box. Yes it may be organic and made from herbs but those herbs make you shit your brains out. That is how you get...
Sober to Abstinent
“Well, it took you long enough,” my mind said. “Welcome home!” greeted my heart… I began to uncover all the wreckage of my past at age 33. For starters, I got abstinent and sober, which led me on a spiritual quest to find myself. However, I knew what being sober...