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Shamed into silence: men with eating disorders

“Guys just don’t get it,” he said, fidgeting in his chair. “When I tell a guy friend about my eating disorder they say, ‘Come on, dude. That’s a girl thing.’ They don’t understand, so I don’t tell...

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14-16/30- Change; triggers; gratefulness

Day 14 – Think about yourself one year ago. How have you changed? A year ago I had just started my recovery journey. I was struggling a little more than I am now, and was still using drugs, alcohol,...

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Pre-appointment jitters

This afternoon I have an intake appointment for an outpatient therapy program. I’m nervous; I’m not convinced I need to go, but it’s important to my parents that I do. They told me to look at it as a...

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4/30- Harming others

Day 4 - Have you harmed anyone (besides yourself) with your addiction/disorder? If so, how? What have you done (or plan on) to make amends? I’ve hurt a lot of people with my eating disorder, but my...

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2/30- Helping yourself

Day 2 - What have you done to help yourself with your addiction/disorder? When I first began the recovery process, I didn’t do much to help myself. My family kept me under close watch: they had me...

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Losing my footing

My therapist wants me to start keeping a food journal again, to track my patterns of restricting and binge eating. I’ve been slipping recently.. not consciously (or at least not that I’m willing to...

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New diet: feeding tubes for weightloss

A while back I posted about the hCG diet, and how I thought it was the most disturbing diet trend I’ve ever heard. Believe it or not, yesterday I found one that seems to top that: feeding tubes. Photo...

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Cranky rant: LA Times reports “hopeful signs on eating disorders,” I’m not...

I read an article on the Los Angeles Times today with the headline “Experts see hopeful signs on eating disorders.” Underneath, in smaller print, it said, “Patients are being treated earlier, spending...

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Riding out the waves

I’ve lost weight. I haven’t weighed myself in months (still don’t own a scale) but I know my body and it’s been changing: my stomach is getting smaller, there’s the teeniest of gaps between my thighs,...

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Diet junkie

What do you do when someone you deeply care about is practicing dangerous dieting behaviors? Last night I found out a Friend (obviously not mentioning names, so please respect their privacy and don’t...

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