Rebecca Cooper
LMFT, LPCC, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS)
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- Main Areas
- Eating Disorders
- Best Sellers
- Diets Don't Work®
- Career Focus
- Inte ational Speaker, Therapist, Business Owner, Author
- Affiliation
- IAEDP, APA, AMFT, IFTA, CAMFT, ACA, NAATP, NAADAC, CAADAC,
After years of experience helping clients recover from the effects of dieting, obesity, eating disorders, addictions, and disordered eating, Rebecca Cooper can share some facts that can restore our society to sanity regarding food, weight, and addiction. Ms. Cooper has a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University. She is a Califo ia licensed therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She started the first transitional living residence for women recovering from eating disorders. She is the Founder of Rebecca’s House Eating Disorder Treatment Programs™ located in Orange County, Califo ia, where she heads up a team of psychologists, therapists, registered dietitians, exercise physiologist, psychiatrist, and a medical doctor.Rebecca is the author of the Diets Don’t Work® a structured recovery program for disordered eating. This innovative program is successfully being used by recovery homes, therapists, and clients. She is also CEO of 21st Century Wellness, Inc., and was the first President of the Orange County Chapter of the Inte ational Association of Eating Disorder Professionals. Ms. Cooper is the author of several published articles and a workbook that accompanies the Diets Don't Work® Book. In addition to recorded DVDs and CDs, Ms. Cooper also appears on television and radio to promote eating disorder awareness. Rebecca has been the guest on radio/web/television shows. She is an inte ational speaker and conducts workshops and seminars on such topics as Eating Disorders--a National Epidemic, The Effects of Yo-Yo Dieting, Why Diets Don’t Work, Jou ey to Self, Understanding the Binge Cycle, and A Solution for Disordered Eating. In October 2004, Rebecca was honored as the Rising Star in Business by WomanSage©, an event sponsored by the University of Califo ia at Irvine Medical Center. The award was in recognition to her innovative approach to helping women with eating disorders and her dedicated service of helping others recover. In May of 2009, she was nominated for the Orange County Business Jou al's Women in Business Award.
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***High Fructose Corn Syrup - Not Such a Sweet Deal!
Recently proven to be more addictive than cocaine, a closer look at High Fructose Corn Syrup may help to explain America’s rise in obesity and the new focus on food addiction.
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***The Binge Eating Cycle: Breaking Free
We develop patterns of behavior early in life. We start associating certain events with certain behaviors. One such pattern is our behavior with food. Being fed by our parents when we were young may come to represent being cared for or being loved. On the other hand, not being fed when we were hungry may have produced a deep insecurity about whether there would be enough food in the future.
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***Why Diets Don’t Work
Have you ever dieted? More than once? Most of the methods we may have tried to control our eating have not worked long term. I hope to explain why diets don’t work and present some ideas for you to consider that do work. Diets don’t work. Let me contradict myself now and say “all diets work.” The protein diet, the grapefruit diet, low carb diet, the (fill-in-the-blank) diet, all work. The more bizarre the regime the better it works, at least temporally.
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Eating Disorders can be Deadly
ELEVEN MILLION people in the U.S. have an eating disorder, and you may never suspect it by their physical appearance. Here are the major types of eating disorders, and symptoms and behaviors to look for.
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Addictions and Food
Over the years I have been asked if there is such a thing as food addiction. First, let’s look at what is an addiction? Here is one definition: An addiction causes people to engage in a recurring activity that causes harm to the person. It is often described as a compulsion to engage in some specific activity to produce mood-altering experiences, and this experience has life-damaging consequences.
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***A Day in the Life of a Bulimic
The way I learned to deal with my feelings was not to feel. One of the ways I learned to do this was to think of something different. For instance, I looked forward to getting some candy from the little store on my way home from school. I would get a cola soft drink and a frosted pastry or candy. I always felt better when I ate that. Little did I know that I was opening a floodgate of addiction with this newly learned coping behavior.
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***The Inconvenient Truth About Male Eating Disorders
Today researchers find that for every four females with anorexia, there is one male, and for every 8-11 females with bulimia, there is one male. (American Jou al of Psychiatry) The majority of men suffer with Binge Eating Disorder and the majority does not get treatment until they have diabetes, heart attacks or other weight-related disorders.
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***Celebrity Eating Disorders
The shame, guilt and misunderstanding of eating disorders makes it hard for anyone to come forward to get help, but it is so much harder for a public figure to do so. Celebrities may put their fame, career and acting opportunities on the line and open themselves to, ridicule and criticism if they disclose they have an eating disorder. Some will die as a result.
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High Fructose Corn Syrup - Not Such a Sweet Deal!
Recently proven to be more addictive than cocaine, a closer look at High Fructose Corn Syrup may help to explain America’s rise in obesity and the new focus on food addiction.
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***Chapter 1 – Facing the Fact that Diets Don’t Work
Have you ever dieted and gained the weight back? Statistics show that sixty-six percent of the American population is overweight. Only one out of 200 dieters loses the weight and keeps it off for a year or more. Out of the 25 million Americans that are seriously dieting in the United States 40 to 60 percent are high school girls. Studies show that 35% of the normal dieters progress to eating disorders. Thirty percent of post-bariatric or gastric bypass surgery patients develop a substance addiction. The body may, but thinking remains the same.
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***Do Sororities Cause Eating Disorders?
“A binge-purge party is a harmless way to enjoy some fattening foods without getting fat”, my patient told me. “At my sorority a few of us girls would buy all of the forbidden and fattening foods we have been denying ourselves. Then we would have a binge-purge party. It’s a way to have your cake and not get fat. Three of us meet in my room. It was like a secret society. We ate donuts, chips, pizza, ice cream, fast foods and fried foods then we purged the food.”
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Sugar Addiction
Proven to be more addictive than cocaine, a closer look at Sugar may help to explain America’s rise in obesity, diabetes and the new focus on food addiction. A 2007 study (Lenoir, Serre, Cantin, Ahmed), found that intense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward even in addicted and drug-sensitized subjects leading to increased aggression upon withdrawal and a disruption of the dopamine/acetylcholine reward balance in the brain.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Rebecca Cooper
"All actions start with a thought. You must change your thinking to change disordered eating."
"Eating Disorders are a result of disconnecting from your Self , and appetite."
"We no longer know when we are hungry or when we are full. We use an exte al source, the DIET, to tell use when, how much, and what to eat."
"We use food to avoid emotions. After awhile this becomes a hard-wired response to all feelings that we do not want to feel. "
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You can find more information at www.DietsDontWork.org, www.RebeccaCooper.com, and www.RebeccasHouse.org.
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Inte ational speaker, webinars, online sessions, and eating disorder treatment available. See www.DietsDontWork.org, www.RebeccaCooper.com and RebeccasHouse.org or call 800-711-2062.