CBT-E for Binge Eating   Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) is the first line treatment for binge eating.  You may have heard of CBT—it is a thoroughly researched and proven treatment for many behavioral health conditions.  The form of CBT used for binge eating (CBT-E) differs slightly from traditional CBT.  In this blog post, I’ll break […]

Signs and Symptoms of Orthorexia Do you fixate on eating foods that you feel are healthy? Do you obsessively avoid foods you are convinced affect your health (e.g. anxiety, depression, allergies, asthma, digestive issues)—even in the absence of medical advice? Has eating healthy food become the center around which your life revolves? Do you find […]

First things first–on this Veteran’s Day, thank you, veterans and active service members, for serving! An article in the November 2015 issue of The International Journal of Eating Disorders highlights factors that predict good treatment outcomes (Vall E, Wade T Predictors of Treatment Outcome in Individuals with Eating Disorders:  A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int J […]

The Current Evidence Base for Treatment You may have heard the term evidence-based treatment.  What it means is that the treatment is supported by published research demonstrating its effectiveness (in other words, the “evidence”).  It gets complicated when there are multiple treatments available for a single condition, as is the case for eating disorders.  Which […]

DBT for Binge Eating:  How It Works Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a form of treatment that has been researched and tested for 30+ years, targets emotion regulation.  For some with binge eating— particularly for those who try to cope with emotional distress by bingeing—DBT offers a way to better manage and regulate emotions. Dialectical refers […]

The Sooner the Better. That’s my headline after reading a recent article in the New York Times titled, “Anorexia May Be Habit, Not Willpower, Study Finds.”  The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, examined brain activity in individuals with severe anorexia nervosa.  The authors found that when these individuals made food choices they engaged a particular part of […]