FiftyFierce

If you're new to the gym, you may have just wrapped up the first stage of a new program. Usually designed around 4-6 weeks, your trainer might have mentioned something called 'periodization'. Don't be misled by this term as it does not mean one month of hard work on your resolutions followed by eleven months of reflection. However, if you caught the training fever bug and have discovered a new love, it's time to be inducted into the wonderful world of gym quirks! Quirk #1. If

The current clinical assumption of bulimia and BED (binge eating disorder) argues these to be illnesses or diseases that attest to complicated innate emotional issues. In reality, the culprit is the actual urge to binge and all the faulty messages we tell ourselves about why we think we should binge. It truly does come down to this simple concept and here's how it usually starts: with a diet. I thought about when I had my first binge and what compelled me to do it. At the tim

There was a time when I told my 'Battling Bulimia' story readily. It could have become The Story of my life but something happened to change that. This is the 'AHA!' moment I promised to talk about as the impetus for change after 30-some years of failed attempts to kick this behavior to the curb. I had a dream so very real, one where I was discovered dead inside the hotel room where I was staying at the time. I was surrounded by massive piles of junk food and in my cold and r