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November 29th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Heidi Diaz, John Tiedt, Kimkins diet, Kimkins.com, Low Carb, Womens Health, diet, diet fraud, fraudulent marketing, john teidt, kimkins lawsuit, nutrition, thyroid health from Kimorexia @ Kimorexia
Derek, you said you only posted your success story because you’re proud of your weight loss, which you achieved by eating basic low carb, ignoring the Kimkins plan details, and not participating at the website. You said you don’t endorse or promote Kimkins.
Derek, this ad says otherwise. Did you…
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Hi, Everyone –
A disturbing article came out in the UK’s Sun today. The article discusses the recent rise in the number of young girls battling eating disorders. In just 13 months, the British Pediatric Service Unit reported that there were 206 cases of anorexia in children under the age of 13, and the youngest reported [...]
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November 3rd, 2008 — , Body Image, Cardio, Eating Disorders, compulsive exercise, personal essays, weight lifting from Jenn @ The Great Fitness Experiment
Most people have a hard time getting to the gym. I have a hard time getting out of the gym. My love of everything fitness has become my defining personality trait. That is often what people know me for. It doesn’t help either that my hobbies includ…
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October 21st, 2008 — , Body Image, Eating Disorders, Kimkins, Kimkins diet, anorexia, weight loss from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
This was the first piece I’ve read by Charlotte Hilton Andersen, and I want to share it here. I looked at some of her other entries and I can’t wait to read them all. According to her bio on the site, “Charlotte runs the popular health and fitness site The Great Fitness Experiment. She was featured…
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October 19th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Food, TV appearances, personal essays, weight gain/loss from Jenn @ The Great Fitness Experiment
Here’s a diet tip for you: Eat with a bear. I bet you eat less. Just try it and see.”She is a great example of fulfilling your destiny. She’ll order dessert and take one bite and then pour the salt shaker over it. She’s about living consciously.”~ Al…
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October 17th, 2008 — , Celebrities, Cold Hard Cash, Eating Disorders, Gossip, Health, International, Science, Tidbit, weight loss from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
Thought it couldn’t get any crazier than the baby food diet or the swallow a tapeworm diet? While surfing around gossip blogs today, I ran across a reference to celebrities going on an “IV diet.” As in intravenous. Diet. I found the blurb here:
One of Hollywood’s dirty little secrets is the ‘IV diet’, in which [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The Celebrity IV Diet”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/10/17/the-celebrity-iv-diet/” });
October 15th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Kimkins, Love Your Body Day, Womens Health, emotional health, women's health news from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
Thank you, Bamagal for the heads up on your Kimkins Review blog, and for the link to the Love Your Body website.
Overall women are dissatisfied with their bodies - 80% of us. It’s what makes it so easy for Kimkins and other diet websites to get a toe hold! They prey on that dissatisfaction….
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Related StoresOctober 9th, 2008 — , Behavior Change, Body Image, Eating Disorders, eating disorder, healthy lifestyle, mental health from Blake Hagen @ blakehagen.com
Here are some interesting excerpts from an article written by a woman who struggled with eating disorders and body image issues throughout her adolescence. It’s titled What I Wish You Would Have Said from Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty:
“I wish people would have commented more about my heart, my kindness, and my ability to make [...]
October 8th, 2008 — , Body Image, Eating Disorders, personal essays, sexual assault from Jenn @ The Great Fitness Experiment
Good people give bad advice all the time. And said advice generally comes in well-intended pithy (and occasionally alliterative!) axioms. The rule of thumb for discerning bad advice: does it fit on a bumper sticker? If yes, then it is too simple to …
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Photo CreditOur society is warped. Twisted. A veritable fun-house of fat and thin mirrors when it comes to body image. We’re all well aware how the media accustoms us to starlets sylphlike on screen and sacks of bones in real life. Because the came…
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If we’re going to be friends, there is something you should know: you must never, under any circumstances, give me a diet/nutrition book. Even if I ask you for it. First of all, I’ve probably read it. I’ve read them all. Or if I haven’t read it, I’…
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Doing what I do here at The Great Fitness Experiment, one of the questions I get asked the most is “So which diet/exercise program is the best?” closely followed by the inevitable “And which one is the worst?” My answer is generally not what people ar…
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September 22nd, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Fashion, Gym Buddies, bad advertising, gym adventures, rants from Jenn @ The Great Fitness Experiment
9 am on a Random Monday Morning. Gym Buddy Allison Calls.A: I have an idea. Let’s skip class today and go to the mall!me: Oooh, will you make me a mix tape too? And then maybe we can hold hands?A: Funny. I’m serious. Let’s play hooky from the gym….
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September 15th, 2008 — , Advertising, Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Fashion, Kids, Project Runway, TV from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
It’s Fashion Week, which means we get things like this amazing collection by Christian Siriano and another look at the size zero model phenomenon. Apparently, they’re back in style this season. (So much for Whitney’s victory on America’s Next Top Model.)
Spurred on by a spike in reality TV shows promoting extreme dieting, women are once [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ““Models Aren’t Supposed To Eat””, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/09/15/models-arent-supposed-to-eat/” });
September 11th, 2008 — , Advocacy, Books, Celebrities, Eating Disorders, Fashion, Feminism, Kids, Magazines, Media from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
Whenever I’m asked who this blog is for, I inevitably say it’s for my teenage self—and for teenagers who are like her. So it might not be too surprising that my hot button issue is the way the media talks to teenage girls. For example, in magazines like Teen Vogue that may be subtly [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Is Orthorexia In Vogue?”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/09/11/is-orthorexia-in-vogue/” });
Related StoresSeptember 7th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, TV appearances, orthorexia, personal essays from Jenn @ The Great Fitness Experiment
“Sancho!” I yelled, smiling so tightly that my cheeks hurt as I threw open my front door.”Charlotte! You’re even more beautiful in person!” He didn’t miss a beat, despite the fact that I’d just called him by his last name as if we were old college bu…
Related StoresSeptember 7th, 2008 — , 20/20, Eating Disorders, TV appearances, orthorexia from Jenn @ The Great Fitness Experiment
Here are the links to the video segments on ABC’s site:Healthy Food, Unhealthy Obsession: Pt. 1http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5739648Healthy Food, Unhealthy Obsession: Pt. 2http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5739687Shorter “In Touch…
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Remember this?? If you have nothing better to do with your Friday evening then check me out on 20/20 tonight on ABC. Just promise you’ll still love me in the morning;)And yeah, that’s how much warning they gave me.
Related StoresAugust 26th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, orthorexia, personal essays from Jenn @ The Great Fitness Experiment
I hate eating in public. And I say this fully realizing that many of you who read this have had occasion to eat with me. If I invite you over, to my home, things are not so hard for me. I have control over the menu, the ingredients, and the portions…
Related StoresAugust 21st, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Feminism, Health, Media, Personal, TV, weight loss from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
Oh this is a fucking wonderful idea: an MTV reality show called Model Maker that asks women to lose up to eighty pounds in twelve weeks. Doing the math, that’s approximately seven pounds per week. The goal is, of course, to be “thin” and “beautiful” enough to be a model. (One of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “MTV’s “Model Maker” Reality Show”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/08/21/mtvs-model-maker-reality-show/” });
Related StoresAugust 20th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, children from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. As I watch the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I realize how important it is to teach your children (and yourself!) about healthy body weight. I found this article in the LA Times on the weight and height of several Olympic gymnasts (actually, only US and China). [...]
Related StoresAugust 8th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Health Blog Posts from Jacqueline Carly @ Fitarella
I am honored to be a member of an amzing organization called the Eating Disorders Coalition, for Research, Policy and Action. Quite simply, they get shit done and work hard every day at advancing federal recognition of Eating Disorders as a public health priority. I know, because I’ve lobbyed Congress with them…they are hard core.
Please check [...]
August 7th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Exercise, Motivation, guilt from Jenn @ Cranky Fitness
[By Merry]Photo courtesy of flickrI have a cold.Earth-shattering news, right? Okay, maybe not, but the reason behind the cold is interesting.I got a cold because I went to a family reunion and there encountered a teenage relation who insisted on giving…
Related StoresJuly 16th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Kimkins diet, health news, nutrition, reproductive health, women's health news from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
I found these articles interesting and thought I’d share them here.
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This one supports the importance of essential fatty acids for mental health.
Eating Healthy Food Can Keep Mental Disorders At…
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Related StoresJuly 16th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Kimkins diet, Womens Health, anorexia, kimorexia, loose weight fast, lose weight fast, nutritionally bankrupt from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
I thank MrsMenopausal (Weighing the Facts) for pointing out this video on her blog. She has a great and informative blog - please be sure to check it out. (Hi Mrs!)
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July 15th, 2008 — , Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Feminism, Kids, Media from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
You’ve probably heard of pro-ana groups online. They’re pro-anorexia groups where people, mostly young girls, of course, go to share their sources of “thinspiration” and talk about their strategies for ingesting the bare minimum of calories. Well now there’s We Bite Back, a post-pro-ana group dedicated to helping and supporting people who are recovering [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Post-Pro-Ana”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/07/15/post-pro-ana/” });
Related StoresJuly 14th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, blogging, bulimia, interview from Jenn @ Cranky Fitness
[By Crabby]Here at Cranky Fitness, we tend to talk about health and nutrition and exercise generally rather than personally. Which means you are more likely to read advice on what we think everyone should do (eat your vegetables!) and less likely to he…
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May 19th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Health & Fitness from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Recently, I discussed what Anorexia Nervosa is and what you can do if you suspect that someone you know is anorexic.
When you have kids, many people advise you to check out what websites they seek out and are frequently on. You might have blocks up so [...]
May 14th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Heidi Diaz, Kimkins, Kimkins diet, Kimkins.com, Kimmer, diet, diet support, fast weight loss, kimkins review, lose weight fast, low carb diet, quick weight loss, weight loss from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
If you are using some of the Kimkins principles to adapt another plan to lose weight, please don’t call it Kimkins. Kimmer has said, ‘If you tweak it, it’s not Kimkins!’
Kimkins is a crash diet. The Kimkins PR person said it is for TEMPORARY weight loss on the Mike & Juliet show (links to the…
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May 10th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, anorexia, bulimia, illinois house bill 1432, mental health parity from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
This is from Medical News Today:
State Senators John Cullerton (D-6th District) and Heather Steans (D-7th District) will present a bill to the Illinois State Legislature Insurance Committee on May 8th that could have life or death consequences for the citizens of Illinois. Introduced by Rep. Fred…
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May 10th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, eating disorder recovery, junkfood science from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
I’m short on time, energy and inspiration these days, but want to share a couple of good posts from Sandy at Junkfood Science.
This one is about eating disorders overlooked because patients don’t fit the teenage anorexic stereotype:
Our growing culture of disordered eating
This one is about the…
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Related StoresApril 30th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Kimkins, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, bulimia nervosa, cardiac damage, what is kimkins from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
Really?
__________________________________Image source:Hila Elmalich, Israeli Model Dies of Anorexia
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April 28th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, anorexia, disordered eating, nutrition from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
What do you think about this picture?
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Related StoresApril 25th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, disordered eating, quiz, self magazine from OhYeahBabe @ Kimorexia
SELF magazine has an interesting article called The disorder next door. Their conclusion? Over 6 in 10 American women have disordered eating, and another 1 in 10 has an eating disorder.
This was covered this morning on the Today Show. I found it odd they had Matt Lauer do the interview. Maybe this…
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Related StoresApril 1st, 2008 — , Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Health, Kids, Meta from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
Here’s the e-mail I got today (bolding mine):
I guess I don’t really know how to start this, other than I just read the blog about the 14 year old with a bad self image, and it gave me the courage to say something too. I’m 16 years old, and I am bulimic. It doesn’t matter [...]
March 21st, 2008 — , Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Feel Good Friday, Tidbit from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
Like the Movies recently liked to the Body Image Project, describing it as a blog “where people anonymously write in about their perceptions of and struggles with body image.”
Age 17
In middle school I remember being happy. No one talked about their weight or their body. I am now in high school and the girls [...]
March 12th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Feminism, Health from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
A very interesting and sad story about eating disorders within the Orthodox Jewish community, from Jezebel. Evidently, in arranging their marriages, one of the criteria for some Jewish men is that their brides be below a size 8.
And in a move reminiscent of that Ben Stiller movie, sometimes they take the mother’s dress [...]
February 14th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Kimkins, Kimkins debate, diet, fast weight loss, quick weight loss, starvation, sudden death, very low calorie diet, weight loss, wmans world magazine from anonymous @ Say "NO" to Kimkins
After all these months, Woman’s World magazine has finally released a retraction.
A Statement from
Woman’s World Magazine
Please accept our apology
We at Woman’s World pride ourselves on finding inpiring diet successes to share with our readers every week. That’s why we were so distressed to learn that Kim Drake, the founder of Kimkins.com, gave us inaccurate information [...]
February 3rd, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Kimkins, Kimkins debate, diet, fast weight loss, quick weight loss, starvation, sudden death, very low calorie diet, weight loss from anonymous @ Say "NO" to Kimkins
Ok, so it’s almost lunch time and my daughter is wondering very loudly “What’s For Lunch?”
I think some people would really be surprised about What’s for Lunch when you are following Kimkins, for sure!
When you look at the first plate of food, it doesn’t look so bad, until it is explained that that’s for the [...]
December 3rd, 2007 — Advocacy, Celebrities, Eating Disorders, Hairspray, Magazines, Media, Movies from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
Seventeen has launched the Body Peace Project, “aimed at changing the way young girls view their bodies.” Three celebrities have signed on: Fergie, Brittany Snow, and Ashlee Simpson. According to IMDB news:
The trio want teenagers to stop obsessing about the shape of their bodies. Editor in Chief Ann Shoket launches the year-long project [...]
October 25th, 2007 — Celebrities, Eating Disorders, Feminism, International from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
We don’t have a category for “Thinism” or “Weight Gain” and maybe we should. Miss England has been told to gain weight if she wants to win the Miss World title. Supposedly, this is to set a better example for the youth of tomorrow. Which is, of course, binge eating.
Miss England says:
Miss [...]
October 3rd, 2007 — ANTM, Eating Disorders, Fashion, TV, weight loss from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
A-list BFD tipster Kari sent in a link to an article that struck me almost as a follow-up to our conversation about the fashion industry (in the post below). We talked about the editors; what about the designers who choose to use ever-younger, ever-thinner women (and sometimes even children) as models? And where does it [...]
Related StoresSeptember 26th, 2007 — Advocacy, Biggest Loser, Eating Disorders, Feminism, Health, International, Kids, Science, TV from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
There’s no way really to put a positive spin or a clever title on this bit of research, which shows a link between childhood rape and obesity in women.
Researchers surveyed about 2,500 men and women aged 21 and found 7.5 % had had intercourse against their will before the age of 16. While the [...]
September 13th, 2007 — Eating Disorders, Feminism, Kids, Magazines, Media, Tidbit from mo pie @ Big Fat Deal
Another thing that made the rounds while I was off was this video, but it’s well worth linking to, for those of you who haven’t seen it. It talks about the effects that magazine images and other media have on young women.
If you’re unable to view the video, this article hits many of the [...]
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