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  • Eating Disorder Month - What to be Aware Of

    February is Eating Disorder Month. Affecting almost 11 million people nationwide it is a serious topic that all parents should be aware of. Experts from Rebecca's House give us warning signs to watch for.

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  • Demi Moore’s Eating Disorder

    By Rebecca Cooper

    It was officially reported that Demi Moore is seeking help for stress, exhaustion, and substance abuse, but it also appears that Demi is suffering from an eating disorder.

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  • The Freedom of Eating Disorder Recovery

    By Rebecca Cooper

    It is hard to explain to someone who has never had an eating disorder the freedom it is to be out of one. Everyone in recovery will tell you that it's not necessarily all the behaviors that accompany the eating disorders but it is the obsessive, continual chatter that is in your head about food, weight, diet, and body image. Even the person that is restricting, dieting or suffering from Anorexia, has the same

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  • Five Tips To Keep From Overindulging This Holiday Season

    It’s the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and you’re still eating turkey and stuffing with a side of pie for lunch. A delightful treat indeed, but Thanksgiving dinner is only the beginning. We’ve now officially entered the holiday season, which means about five weeks of delightful treats that we will regret come January 2 when we’re topping our list of resolutions with “Lose five pounds.”

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  • The Destructive Culture of Dieting

    By Rebecca Cooper

    Weight problems and food addictions have become a national epidemic.  At any given time, twenty five million Americans are seriously dieting.  Only 1 out of every 200 dieters lose their weight and keep it off for a year or more.  Although there are more diet programs and weight loss products than any other time in history, recent studies show that roughly sixty percent of adult Americans are overweight and one third are obese.

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  • The True Freedom of Eating Disorder Recovery (Part III)

    Eating disorder recovery is not like alcohol and drug recovery. When you’re recovering from an eating disorder you usually experience more of a stair step approach or zigzag instead of a straight-line recovery. When you hit something that’s very impactful it may cause you to engage in your disorder. This is your red flag that something is wrong. It can be a great learning tool. You can discover triggers and what alternative tools you can use instead of using the eating disorder.

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  • The True Freedom of Eating Disorder Recovery (Part II)

    By Rebecca Cooper

    Early recovery is difficult. When we stopped the eating disorder, feelings start to surface. Many times you do not even know what the feeling is. So one of the first new skills in recovery is to be able to identify your feelings. You cannot take care of yourself if you don’t even know what you are feeling. What makes this even more difficult is that the feelings you have been suppressing with the eating disorder now start to surface.

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  • The True Freedom of Eating Disorder Recovery (Part I)

    By Rebecca Cooper

    It is hard to explain to someone who has never had an eating disorder the freedom it is to be out of one. Everyone in recovery will tell you that it’s not necessarily all the behaviors that accompany the eating disorders but it is the obsessive, continual chatter that is in your head about food, weight, diet, and body image. Even the person that is restricting, dieting or suffering from Anorexia, has the same internal negative dialogue.

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  • Why Diets or Restricting Food Results in Eating Disorders, Keys Semi-Starvation Experiment, 1950.

    Excerpts from the Handbook for the Treatment of Eating Disorders, D.M. Gardner and P.E. Garfinkel (editors), Gilford Press, New York, N.Y., 1997.

    Ancel Keys conducted a study to determine the effects of food restriction. His results were amazing. We know that restriction causes weight loss but look at all the other symptoms of the experiment. They are classic eating disorder symptoms. The study shows that restricting food affects us not only physically, but psychologically and behaviorally as well.  Note that even after the subjects started eating normally the psychological and behavioral effects remained.

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  • The Jewish Journal Article

    By Rebecca Cooper, MFT, CCH, CEDS

    As a loving and concerned parent you may see that when your daughter enters puberty she will gain weight. Most of this gain is due to her body developing and preparing her to grow taller. The weight usually precedes the growth spurt. A healthy adolescent may gain anywhere from 20-50 lbs. Because there is so much focus on weight and body size, adolescents are not given the normal opportunity to go through these changes with the weight fluctuations that is necessary for normal development. This is the time that most eating disorders start. Over the years I have heard my clients say that they started their eating disorder between the ages of 11 to 15 years old. Most started with a diet or over-exercising.

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