emotional eating

Diabetes and Eating Disorders: Fellow PWD Shares Her Diabulimia Story

By AllisonN on February 27, 2013

It is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and many in the patient blogosphere are bringing much-needed attention to this issue.  This year’s theme is one that resonates well for us in the D-Community: “Everybody knows somebody“… 
We know that many fellow PWDs (people with diabetes) struggle with this very issue to varying degrees. Some stats show that type 1 PWDs are twice as likely to develop an eating disorder! Mike wrote about his own struggles with emotional…

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A Confession (and a New Book) About Emotional Eating

By MikeH on January 22, 2013

As much as I may not want to admit it, the confession I need to make is that I’m a guy who is an emotional eater.
There’s no denying it. Sure, I have thought this to myself many times before and I’ve probably mumbled it out loud when no one else was around. But this is the first time I’ve actually written it down and shared it with the online world.
That is a huge…

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