by Carolyn Ross | May 20, 2009 | Bulimia, Compulsive Overeating, Depression, obesity, Weight
Fact #6 – Obesity is associated with a number of health risks. When you got to most doctors, they will tell you that if you don’t reach your “ideal weight” you will get heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Your risk for heart attacks and certain cancers...
by Carolyn Ross | May 19, 2009 | Anorexia, Bulimia, Carolyn Ross MD, Compulsive Overeating, obesity
If you read the previous blog, you will know that the predisposition to obesity is overwhelmingly genetic. What does this mean to you? Well, if you come from a family of overweight individuals, it will undoubtedly be more difficult for you to lose weight and keep it...
by Carolyn Ross | May 19, 2009 | Bulimia, Compulsive Overeating, Depression
I just recently attended and was a speaker at the 6th Annual Nutrition and Health Conference put on by the University of Arizona (www.nutritionandhealthconf.org). The conference was held in Chicago and May 11th was declared by Mayor Daley to be Nutrition and Health...
by Carolyn Ross | Dec 14, 2008 | Anorexia, Bulimia, Compulsive Overeating, Depression
Finding your anchor The Anchor process is a technique I’ve developed in my practice to help people make changes which are difficult. It is a way of finding your safe place, your place of stability in the stormy seas in our lives. Perhaps you’ve had some trauma or...
by Carolyn Ross | Nov 17, 2008 | Anorexia, Bulimia, Compulsive Overeating, Depression
If you don’t feel you eat large quantities of food in one sitting, but you have struggled with your weight and have been on and off diets most of your life, you may be a compulsive overeater (CO). The main difference between binge eating disorder and...
by Carolyn Ross | Nov 15, 2008 | Anorexia, Bulimia, Compulsive Overeating, Depression
There is a code that is much like the genetic code in your DNA that may make you more prone to being overweight, for example, because it’s in your genes. However this code is the code of your soul or spirit. It is what makes us have a passion to do something...