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on this episode, we're going to be talking about food and eating disorders. What constitutes an eating disorder?

I have had issues with food my whole life. I was a bench or perjure for years and as a gay man,

body image and how food is in my life and how I see food in the lives of my friends is something that I'm really curious about.

So this is my dear friend Alana. She's Hungarian though, so her name is spelled with an

O but really it's an A and it's fierce and we love it. So her name is Alana. So, Alana, I want you to tell

our listeners about what you do. Sure, so I'm a marriage and family therapist intern. I specialize with eating disorders.

I've been working with specifically eating disorders for about four years in treatment centers

and now I'm in private practice. And it's an issue very near and dear to my heart as well. Runs in my family. I've had my own ups and downs with it.

And it's a very prominent thing that people don't really talk about. And I know we've discussed how especially in the male world it's not really talked about it's really kind of stigmatized and so I just thought this is a great opportunity to bring some light on it.

So Lonnie obviously you know, eating disorders, it's a big, I almost feel like I still, I don't

purge anymore, but I still feel like I have a relationship of binging sometimes, but I digress.

What I first want to talk about was

how you specifically mentioned men. Yes. You know I have a lot of girlfriends and

clients who have talked to me about struggles with eating disorders in their lives and and stuff but I feel like it really

affects so many men and it affected me from such a young age I remember watching

this body called the perfect or or Perfect Ten.

It was a lifetime movie and the Pink Power Ranger was this gymnast.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

And her friend taught her how to Burge Bear Claws,

which is how I learned how to do it,

because I was just like, I felt like I was just too fat and I was never going to

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