I’m moving on. It’s time. Disordered Times, on the other hand, isn’t going anywhere any time soon. The domain is registered through the end of 2010, so this site will continue to operate as an archive until then at the very least. After that, I’ll probably move the site to Blogger or a free WordPress [...]
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Them porous, brittle bones
At this time last year, I got a bone scan for the first time and found out I have osteopenia, the precursor to osteoporosis. This year, my bone density is even worse and now I am just on the edge of osteoporosis. I’m 27 years old and I have the bones of a woman more [...]
Is it the end, or merely a turning point in the road?
In the same way that print newspapers across the country are dying, this site and its presence are also in question. I’m at a standstill, creatively and intellectually, when it comes to the topic of eating disorders. I’ve been feeling it for the last couple of months and now I think it’s time I address [...]
Bulimia: Not just for rich, white girls
Cross-posted on The-F-Word.org Eating disorders are often thought to be a “rich white girl’s disease,” but a new study shows that black girls and girls from low-income families are more likely to develop bulimia than their wealthier white counterparts. The study is based on information from a government database of 2,300 girls from schools in [...]
Economic anorexia?
In this economic climate, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by a PRNewswire article, titled, “Future of Global Recession Revealed in… a Diet Book?“ while perusing the web for newsworthy eating-disordered articles. Using the Pen and Paper Diet as a platform on which to parallel eating disorders and the disordered (or diseased) economy, the article [...]
Weighting, weighting, weighting…
Answer me this: Do you think it is okay for an otherwise healthy person to diet rigidly, overexercise and sit in saunas to lose every ounce possible before a weigh-in as long as the behavior stopped after a few months? What if that person was you and people turned a blind eye to your unusual [...]
It has long since been time for an update…
…so here it is. This is a part of what I was up to for the majority of February: Longtime readers probably remember me talking about this last year, but unfortunately, that post was lost in the site crash last year and (apparently) won’t be recovered by the WayBack Machine anytime soon. You can still [...]
Eating “discontrol”… the newest label under the umbrella of BED
In the March 2009 issue of Fitness Magazine, writer Colleen Oakley confesses her struggles about being a borderline binger. Unlike those who meet the clinical criteria of BED, which clinically defines BED as “eating larger amounts of food than normal during a two-hour period at least twice a week for six months,” Colleen doesn’t quiet [...]
Because this site kicks ass…
Blogging Fusion has picked Disordered Times as its blog of the week! Many thanks to the editors at Blogging Fusion for giving this site its coolest honor to date…and for making me blush, but in a good way. Remember that National Eating Disorders Awareness Week kicks off on February 22. One of the events I [...]
Workplace “fitness challenge” posts
To those who have found their way here from Junkfood Science, you’re looking at the main page because of broken links. My site died for awhile last year, and not all posts went into their original location as I tried recovering them. I apologize. Here are the posts relating to my workplace’s “fitness challenge” that [...]