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Cutting Down on Food and Fitness Tracking

July 23, 2023July 20, 2019 by drmuhlheim

Have you been tracking your food via a calorie-counting app? Maybe you’ve been tracking your exercise through a wearable or other system. Did you know such tracking: May encourage a disordered relationship with food and your body? May actually be jeopardizing your health rather than helping you to monitor it? If you’ve noticed that you’re …

A Better Resolution For Exercise

August 4, 2023February 5, 2019 by drmuhlheim

exercise as joyful movement in eating disorder recovery in California [Image description: a larger bodied woman dances outside] Represents a potential woman in treatment for an eating disorder in Los Angeles, California

by Kristen Wright, LMFT, a former therapist at EDTLA Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to start a new fitness routine? Those “thirty days of push-ups or sit-ups” or “do 15 of this and 12 of that a day to your ideal body in no time,” might sound appealing. But you may have already …