Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Was Bullied to Lose Weight

Usmagazine.com reports: When I started modelling, I was definitely heavier," she says in ELLE magazine's June issue. "I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't. I can't remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older."

But in true bombshell fashion, the 24-year-old Brit stood strong. "You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively."


I am glad she kept it real and let you know that going into modeling can definitely effect yourself esteem.

Book Review: True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

True You was a quick read. It is not a tell all book. She barely mentions her second marriage, she states for legal reasons. The premise of the book is that Janet is just like you and her insecurities and low self esteem caused her to have disordered eating which generally equaled stave/binge patterns. She tells her story as well as stories of fans who had similar issues and overcame his/her issues after listening to a Janet song. She does have her nutritionist do the afterward and he discusses the medical aspects of losing weight. His top tips:

• Stop dieting and change your lifestyle habits


• Get a medical evaluation before you start the new lifestyle, because the damage of past habits, could hinder weight lost of the new habits


• Also that proper sleep and nutritious foods are just as if not more important then exercise

The book also has some recipes with nutrition info mapped out for each recipe.

I would recommend this book.

Crystal Renn Feels Pressure to Live Up to 'Plus-Size' Label

People.com reports that Crystal Renn feels the pressure to fit the plus-size ideal:

"I think that by placing a title on my head, which is 'plus-size,' and then the picture that these people have created in their mind about what plus-size actually is, I've basically failed [your expectations] just with that," she said.

I not wishing her to have an eating disorder again. Yet, when she was taking appearances on panels about being a plus size model she signed up for this. There are so many plus size model in magazines and we don't know there names.

If you make money off of being overweight, I am going to call you on it. You can't have it both ways. Also, if you don't want to be judge on your appearance everyday, don't choose the job of model. Go work at a place with a uniform so the goal is to look like everyone else.

Oprah: Depression Made Me Eat 30 Pounds of Mac 'N' Cheese

US Magazine reports, after the failure of her movie "Beloved" Oprah states:

"I ate about 30 pounds worth," she reveals. "I'm not kidding! It's the only time in my life I was ever depressed. I recognized I was depressed because I've done enough shows [to know], 'Oh, this is what those people must feel like."

I feel bad for her, but for all realness I couldn't afford the cheese on 30 lbs of Mac & Cheese.

Bethenny Frankel "Used to Get Drunk and Binge," Then "Starve"

US Weekly Magazine reports:

"I used to get drunk and binge on everything in the deli, and then do a juice fast or starve, then do it all over again," the 40-year-old Bethenny Getting Married? star tells the January issue of Redbook (on newsstands December 21).

But when the natural foods chef learned she was pregnant with daughter Bryn in 2009, Frankel was determined to not overeat "out of emotion."

Well it seems that Bethenny Frankel is getting real about how she stayed thin. I am glad she now has a more balanced way of eating. I hope other can learn to change their ways before they do permanent damage to their bodies.

Discovery Healthy Show Alert June 12, 2010

Jun 12, 11:30 am

(30 minutes)
Remind Me I'm Pregnant And...
Have An Eating Disorder
TV-PG, CC

Beth has always wanted children, but being pregnant isn't easy for someone with an eating disorder. She turns to her husband and therapy for help because if she gives into undereating and over-exercising, she could put herself and her baby at risk.

Feeder Fetishist Try to Go Mainstream, Go to Daily Mail, Naturally

So, Donna Simpson belongs to the feeder fetishist sub-culture and she's trying to get famous by become the world's fattest woman as recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records. She makes $750 per week via her feeder website in order to pay for the 12,000 calories a day she must consume in order to reach her goal. Her 150lb hubby is also part of the community. She is currently the record holder for fattest woman to give birth four years ago.

I read the Daily Mail piece, which you can read here and I read Jezebel's short take down, which the comments are way more interesting and indepth than the article itself, here. The Daily Mail, which never fails to take the most grave issues and turn them into some sort of parody of chattering biddies, once again is sensationalist and limited in its ability to dig one teaspoons depth into what really is going on here.

The comments section of Jezebel is for the most part remarkably sensible and thoughtful. That this behavior is certainly part of the ED spectrum is apparent and that it is not about basic rights for fatties is certain. If she were trying to become the world's thinnest woman and she had a pro-ani site, most would certainly say she is sick. The same is true for Ms. Simpson, but anti-fat bias has the comments on the Daily Mail in an uproar.

Feeder fetishist have been around for a while, but this piece is bringing them out of the shadows. I don't know how I feel about that. Its a dependent/codependent relationship gone to extremes and it preys on mentally and physically ill or at least compromised individuals. If mental health treatments can be designed to help out individuals engaged in this destructive behavior (which is a dubious option considering that binge-eating is only recently being classified as an ED in the latest DMV). For now, it looks like the media (for the most part) is much happier as showcasing these sub-cultures as freaks to be looked on and ridiculed rather than as mentally ill people in need of treatment.

Nicole Richie: Eating Disorder Rumors Were "Insulting"

Nicole Richie's shrinking frame has been the subject of much debate over the past few years. But the mother of two, 28, is speaking out now, slamming rumors that she ever had an eating disorder.
"I felt it was a little unfair to say someone has an eating disorder when they don't," she says. "It's extremely insulting and irresponsible."

Adds Richie, "An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease."


I feel Nicole Richie is splitting hairs. She may not have had text book anorexia, but she has some disordered eating. Cause just like Kirstie Alley and Valerie Bertinelli, Nicole Richie spent time on the "cocaine diet". Click here to read the Larry King transcript where she discusses her drug use.

Slim Hopes

I found this video via the Fat Nutritionist

It seems to be from the late 1990's, but its still relevant today. If anything, the stats might be worse for adolescent girls' self-esteem and disordered eating rates. Check it out and discuss!

Best quote: "it is profitable for women to feel terrible about themselves."

Kate Moss Blasted for Saying Being Skinny Is Better Than Eating

After she told Women's Wear Daily that she lived by the slogan, "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels," the model, 35, has been attacked by eating disorder groups for her "dangerous" viewpoint.

"Comments like this make it even more difficult for young people struggling with an eating disorder," said Mary George, a representative of a British eating disorder charity called Beat. "She probably doesn't realize how dangerous such comments can be."
It is true that words are powerful. Yet, the bottom line is women should look for role models in their life and focus less on fashion magazine role models.

What is Normal Eating

Well, I've been doing some emotional eating this week and its not too too bad and it is a copping mechanism, afterall, but I wanted to recommend this post from Nutrition by Eve regarding "normal eating."

She quotes How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not Too Much, by Ellen Satter MSW, RD. Check out this passage:

Definition of ‘Normal’ Eating

“Normal eating is being able to eat when you are hungry and continue eating until you are satisfied. It is being able to choose food you like and eat it and truly get enough of it – not just stop eating because you think you should. Normal eating is being able to use some moderate constraint in your food selection to get the right food, but not being so restrictive that you miss out on pleasurable foods. Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is three meals a day, most of the time, but it can also be choosing to munch along. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it is eating more now because they taste wonderful when they are fresh. Normal eating is overeating at times: feeling stuffed and uncomfortable. It is also undereating at times and wishing you had more. Normal eating is trusting your body to make up for your mistakes in eating. Normal eating takes up some of your time and attention, but keeps its place as only one important area of your life.”

“In short, normal eating is flexible. It varies in response to your emotions, hour schedule, your hunger, and your proximity to food.”

Satter, E. (1987). How to Get Your Kids to Eat: But Not Too Much. Bull Publishing. ISBN 0915950839.

I like this definition because its flexible and recognizes that everyone will over or under-eat at times--there isn't that magical perfect eater totally in touch with one physiological needs alone, devoid of interest in food from a social or conditioning position--we are social creatures, and social eaters. And sometimes we are lonely eaters, etc. Read the whole post if you're interested.

Women's body image complicates HIV treatment

This Article that shows that body image issues can be so deeply ingrained that it defies common safety and health.

Weight loss is a frequent complication of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but some women may be happy to lose that weight. Thus, the preferred body image of female patients with HIV may influence whether they accept medications or not. Medications (protease inhibitors) may increase weight, abdominal girth, breast size, and peripheral wasting.

A study at the Medical Center of Louisiana in New Orleans looked at these issues and found 6 percent of HIV-infected African-American and 23 percent of non-African-American women had tried to lose weight in the past year. Almost 20 percent of non-African-American women preferred an underweight size, along with 1 percent of African-American women. Results were not affected by the stage of infection of the women.

Thus, the authors say, many female patients may try to attain body weights that are not helpful to their health status. Shortened survival in HIV is closely related to loss of lean body muscle. (Healthy Weight Journal 1999:14:2;19 / Clark RA, Niccolai L, Kissinger PJ, et al. Ethnic differences in body image attitudes and perceptions among women infected with HIV. J Am Diet Assoc 1999;99:735-737)

A Call To Arms. Stop Working Out Madonna!

New photographs of Madonna’s arms suggest that her legendary fitness regime may have gone too far.

The 50-year-old Material Mom shocked on-lookers in London Sunday night when her protruding muscles and thick bulging veins were on display as she sported a short white T-shirt.

The problem is Madonna most likely has an Exercise Based Eating Disorder. We all need to remember that women need some body fat in there lives for hormonal health. I think Madonna has been on the exercise deep end since her first baby.

I think it is Hollywood that has created the " talent equals thin" mentality that causes many artist to go off the deep end when it comes to diet and exercise.

Khloe Kardashian: I Lost 20 Pounds!

How'd she do it?

"I try to do just 30 minutes of cardio, mandatory," Khloe, 25, tells Us. "Obviously if I have more time, I want to do weights, but really that cardio is what works for me because I'm bigger. Cardio is what leans me out, and it still works your muscle definition too. Any kind of cardio."

And to avoid a monotonous routine, she makes sure to switch hers up.

Here exercise program seems very reasonable. It is something that all people seeking weight loss can do.


Besides her workout routine, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star tells Us her dieting secrets.

"I eat whatever I want until noon. Then from noon on, I watch what I eat," says Khloe, who adds that she is also launching a diet product called Quick Trim with Kim. "I only drink champagne. 100 calories in a glass, and I'm good."

This is where she is getting into disorder eating. I personally think time table eating as a hard and fast rule is stupid. Third shift workers eat after 9pm and are able to maintain a healthy weight. Therefore, the time you eat does not determine the weight gain or loss.

I think the biggest factor in time related weight loss is "are you eating your bigger meals before the times you use most of your energy for the day?"

Also the statement "I only drink champagne. 100 calories in a glass, and I'm good." Has she ever thought of drinking water? If she did maybe she wouldn't have gotten a DWI.

Gwyneth Paltrow: Three Week Juice Diet "Worked Wonders"

"I feel pure and happy and much lighter," the actress writes in her GOOP newsletter. "I dropped the extra pounds that I had gained during a majorly fun and delicious 'relax and enjoy life phase' about a month ago."

New York-based cardiologist Dr. Alejandro Junger explains the "Clean" detox works by cutting out most food and "reducing digestive work so detox can occur in full mode. The Clean Program eases digestion by providing two liquid meals a day and a solid one in between, eliminating allergenic and mucus-forming food, which frees up even more energy," the doctor writes.

This totally sounds like an eating disorder to me at worst and disordered eating at best. Does she believe eating food is only apart of a 'relax and enjoy life phase'? If she does chick is crazy. Balanced nutrition should be in every part of your life and cutting out food group and/or entire meal times is crazy.

Too Much Exercise?

Too Much Exerciseby Jennifer May, M.S., R.D., M.S.

Exercising provides wonderful health and wellbeing benefits. But what happens when you over-exercise? How do you know when you're getting too much exercise?

There are varying degrees of overtraining and exercise addiction. For some it may mean running or cycling for miles at dawn, while for others its compulsive daily gym workouts. Some seek the high from certain exercise-related hormones, others feel they have never done enough in their workout and push themselves harder and harder. And some unknowingly may not be giving themselves enough of a break between workouts.

I think this is a topic people should be aware of, but don't use it as a excuse not to try a healthy life of exerice.

Hills Star Admits to Bulimia, Triggered by "Skinny" Costars

Hills star Stephanie Pratt opens up for the first time in the new issue of Us Weekly about hating her body and her terrifying secret struggle with bulimia -- sparked, she says, by the pressure of appearing alongside her super-thin friends on the hit MTV reality show.

I don't think anyone causes you to have an eating disorder. But I do think when celebrities lie about how they do no exercise and eat pizza all day in order to be a size zero, it does cause people believe they have to go to extremes to achieve the same look.

If the Celebrities start getting real like Mariah Carey. She says, she swims, eats broth and lettuce, & drinks a little champagne to look like her. Or like Halle Berry, who said even she had to lose another 15 lbs off her already skinny self to fit in the Catwoman outfit. I think people could honestly decide if they want to put in the work to get the body or deal with what they got.

4 Ways to Make Yourself Feel Better, Other Than Eat!

We are always willing to justify eating crap by saying, "I had a rough day. I deserve this." Deserve what? Heart disease? Cellulite? Diabetes? Come on! Would you reward your loved ones this way? I bet not. What do I do to make myself feel better?

1. Call a friend for validation.

2. Go hang out with an animal

3. Go window/online shopping

4. Pamper yourself.

Above is my paraphrase version of the 4 Ways to Make Yourself Feel Better, Other Than Eat! All of the activities could lead to getting some exercise in.

Natasha Henstridge: Diets and Pills Damaged My Body

"I've done some things that probably weren't the smartest things in the world," reveals Henstridge, now 34, of taking "pills" and over the counter supplements to give her an "extra boost" to be thinner. "I've even been to Chinese herbalists who've given me herbs and acupuncture," she says, thinking that they were "innocent and healthy."
Now, the mom of two realizes that the diets and drugs were damaging. "All of a sudden when you decide to go clean, things are changing in your body because you done a bit of damage," she says. Sporting a curvier figure last month, Henstridge is happier – and healthier – than ever. "My body has definitely gone through a change since coming off all the crazy yo-yo stuff," she admits of putting on weight.

I am glad Natasha Henstridge is coming cleaning about the down sides of crazy Hollywood diets. A lot of people abuse their bodies in their 20's not thinking about the remafications of those yo-yo diets in their 40's or 60's. So I am glad she is giving a glimpse of what is like to have to deal with the aftermaths of yo-yo dieting.

Jessica Szohr Eats 'Like a Man'

The quickest way to Gossip Girl actress Jessica Szohr's heart is through her stomach, she says. "When I have a craving for something, I just can't hold myself back," she says in the June issue of Men's Health. One thing the 24-year-old is always glad to see on a menu: burgers. "After 10 years of eating vegetarian, I tried my boyfriend's," she says. "I was overwhelmed. It was orgasmic." And nothing – not even the taunts of her own kin – can make her end her quest for a sated belly. "My family makes fun of me," she says. "They say I eat like a man. But I love food that much."

Is eating 3 well balanced meals a day considered "eating like a man" in Hollywood? Hollywood has gone off the deep end again. Labeling a starlet that eats more then champagne a "man" is crazy.