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Patients, Facebook friends, and friends of friends contacted me in horror after reading the NY Times article on the Biggest Loser. Weight re-gain is inevitable. Most if not all of it.  And metabolic rate is screwed too. The control you believed you had? Doomed to dissolve. The hope you were given that you'd finally made it to your goal size or weight—or were getting closer—shattered. Overweight, obese, underweight or average size—the feelings knew no size boundaries. Fear. Anxiety. Hopelessness. Panic. The pain of regain extended well beyond the 14 Biggest Loser contestants studied and their loved ones. It was felt by those of you who shared their struggle and their joy and sought inspiration from this outrageous, extremist show.  The NY Times summarized the research: by 6 years after the show’s end, all but one participant studied had either regained some weight or gained beyond their starting weight; 4 contestants are now heavier than before they tortured themselves w...

Got 30 minutes? Check out this podcast I was interviewed on yesterday on Heritage Radio's Feast Yr Ears. http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/lori-lieberman/ Topics discussed include: Why I love working with people with eating disorders--the most challenging of all my patients More nutrition pet peeves, what simple step pediatricians can take to catch an eating disorder What to say and not say to someone who has lost weight The me and Cate story of Food to Eat and Drop the Diet aka why I adore Cate Sangster My major food obsession. You mean you don't already know? If you like it, please share it. And thanks for your recent comments which I promise to respond to!

We will all rest more easily if we air these 'pet' peeves. Radio show host, Brooklyn Kitchen store owner and foodie Harry Rosenblum wants to know my food related pet peeves. He'll be interviewing me on March 16th on Feast Yr Ears about eating disorders and recovery with a particular interest in Cate and my book, Food to Eat : guided, hopeful & trusted recipes for eating disorder recovery . Pet peeves. Funny he should have asked; 'Thursday's patient' was just suggesting this for a blog post. We all have them. Pet peeves are those things that drive us crazy that people and companies say and do that make us want to scream. But most of you don't scream, or even express your outrag e. You might be annoyed, infuriated even, but you just keep it quiet and say nothing. Maybe you ruminate about it, or binge eat or don't eat at all. "I'll show them" may be your thinking. So readers, here's your prompt to share those things that piss you off....

Kristen knew to avoid fats—except for those in nuts (which she included in very limited amounts) and certainly those in dairy and oils. Fats are bad. Period. She loves fat free yogurts, but those she omits because of the sugar. Same with milk, which she truly used to enjoy. Now she uses fortified water aka lite almond milk. Seasonal fruits, even the organic stuff—completely stricken from her diet, you know, because of the sugar.  Whole grains—well those have those god-awful carbs so those are out too. Yup, that leaves… lean poultry and fish and non starchy vegetables. No wonder meal planning is a challenge. No wonder she struggles to not binge following a day of deprivation. No wonder her energy level is low, and her thoughts are preoccupied with food and eating. Why can’t I decide what to eat? If you're like Kristen, you get so over-focused on what you shouldn't eat that you're challenged to figure out what to eat.   Your endless food rules about nutrition, weight and hea...