Author: Karla Cameron

For so many of us, overeating is a deeply personal and often misunderstood experience.  If you’ve searched for answers about your overeating or wondered why you sometimes turn to food for comfort, you are not alone. What Is Overeating? Overeating is not a sign of failure or a lack of willpower—it’s a very normal response…

Our body image is not our body.  Our body image is an image we have of our body, that has been created in our minds and all of the pain from our past gets stored inside this story. If we have experienced a serious accident or injury, had a traumatic pregnancy or birth, or if…

After surviving my own lived experience of Bulimia and working with people with eating disorders including Bulimia for over 20 years, I wrote a book called: “Eating Out of Control – 7 Steps to Understanding why you do it, so you can stop” Inside it, you will discover there are many hidden meanings to our…

How many people struggle with bulimia and binge eating in Australia? Of the 1.1 million people in Australia with an eating disorder, 12% of these have bulimia, this equates to approximately 132 000 people and 47% have Binge Eating Disorder, this equates to approximately 517 000 people. These figures are from Australia’s leading Eating Disorder…

Binge eating is an experience that often brings with it, feelings of shame, confusion, and a sense of isolation.  If you’re finding yourself drawn to eating a lot of food in one sitting and not understanding why you’re doing it, you’re not alone.  As someone who specializes in supporting people with binge eating, I want…

If you’ve ever wondered what your life might feel like if you were kinder to yourself, please join me. I think this might be an interesting experiment if we could be consistent with it. I do believe when we’re making more of our own decisions about how we want our lives to be, that we…

It is only with the gift of hindsight that I can put into words the overwhelming and all-consuming fear that was mine decades ago when my life was full of bulimia and binge eating. To even consider letting go of these eating disorders would have me frozen to the spot, immobilized, unable to move forward…

When I think of my years spent binge eating, I don’t think “What a waste” because binge eating served many useful purposes for me at a time when I needed it and didn’t feel I had anything else to help me.  This was decades ago, however it’s still a very real and valid explanation that…

Monday was always going to be the fresh start. And every Sunday night came with a plan: And by Wednesday, or sometimes by lunch on Monday, I had already broken my diet. The guilt would roll in, followed by those old familiar thoughts: “Oh well, I’ve messed up again.” “I’ll start again next week.” The…

For the longest time, I thought my struggle with food was a discipline problem. I kept thinking: “If I could just stick to a plan…” “If I could just be more consistent…” “If I could just stop giving up on myself…” But no matter how many times I started over, or how many new food…