Hi, I am actually the mother of the 2 girls from the emotional eating show. I just wanted to comment to Anita that she stated that she also had an eating disorder and that her daughter does too. My heart goes out to you because I know the struggles you are facing but the best advise I could give is what Dr.Keith told us and that is that there are reasons for your struggles with eating and weight and until you really face those reasons it will be a continued struggle. I had never really thought too much about having the girls talk with someone about what they went through when I was real sick, I guess I just thought that it was in the past and we just needed to move on, but Dr.Keith showed me that it has had a major impact on how they began to use food as a comfort to replace the comfort I was unable to give them when I was ill.I am unable to tell from your comments if you suffer from using food as comfort or more from having food control your life like in the form of anorexia/bulimia? I suffer from the later one and I have such a fear of my daughters ending up deciding that it's the only way for them to lose weight. I have had such a life long battle with this eating disorder and I jut would hate for my daughters to have to deal with anything to do what so ever with any type of eating disorder. I would hate to see any young girl or boy deal with it, that's why when I read your story I felt compelled to write to you and encourage you to get help for yourself and for your daughter. We are currently waiting to get hooked up with someone in our area so that our family can also start getting the help we need. I am so anxious to get started because I think this just might be the start to helping our family with this issue!

Hey my name is jacob, i went to camp with the lovely brina, shes an amzing girl who is really exactly like what i do...over eat at night.......dont judge the outside ....judge the inside......unfortunately where i live they do too much of judging the outside and never get a chance to recognize the inner beauty of anyone. I just wish the best of luck to you brina, we'll keep in touch.

This show was all me.. I saw my self and I saw my 13 year old daughter, I saw my self in the parents, the father who is concerned about his daughter and the mother who has a eating problem as well, I have one, I know what it is like. my dauther has one, I love her so much, I do not want her to go through what I went through or is going through, I keep saying to her I am older, your young.. you need to loose weight.. I just wish there was some help, help for me, help for her.. I really want things to be diffrent..
I hope the other girls find help as well as the parents..

Peggy, I feel for you! I'm also obese & now have severe arthritis that stops me from doing much physically. I have to say, if you're able to walk (with a cane if necessary) you really should spend at least 30 mins. daily just walking - before my knees got SO bad, I was able to lose 35 lbs by reducing my calories slightly & walking for 20 mins per session, 3 times each day. I just lay some mats down over my carpet (to protect it) in front of the TV set, found an interesting TV show & walked for 20 -30 mins. Once you get started, it's easy to continue with the TV for distraction! Tell yourself, I'll walk during the Dr. Keith show & then again during Oprah, say - then do it!! After a while, to lose more weight, you'll have to reduce calories a bit &/or walk a bit longer - but I really hope you'll try it, as it's free & easy if you can walk at all. I only wish my arthritis hadn't suddenly gotten so much worse, so that I could continue to maintain reasonable cardio health through this method! (Now I can only swim or bike, & have to leave home for that, so it's much less convenient!) It's a new year, you can do it, get up & WALK! Good luck!

It's so sad that food can be mesmerizing. i am 33 and I love food. I am 202 LBS and should be around 145. Food is a comfort for me. It satisfies me.
Growing up was miserable for me, however I made the best of it. I was not over weight until I was about 24 or so. Then I was only about 170 at the most. My triggers for eating is when I am feeling down and feeling emotional.
I watched my mom get the crap beat out of her many years as a child. Later, I married an alcoholic and an abuser at age 19, which we had a daughter at age 16. I was with him for 10 lousy years and 3 years after that divorce I married again. Come to find out he was a crack addict. Later in his addiction he became violent and sexually abusive. He has been clean for 3 years, so he says. I am not sure because sometimes he acts as though he hates me. We have a 4 year old. We've been together almost 8 years.
I'm a sucker for punishment. I can't say I don't love him, however I can't say I'm happy. I can not get over the sexual abuse I encountered over 3 years ago from him. He does not understand what he did was wrong. We don't even talk about our past issues no matter how severe they are because he gets very angry and somehow it becomes my fault again. Everything turns around on me. How do I change that?
I love my kids and I don't want to fail in life. I have a MAJOR herniated disk and can't exercise. I can't lift over 10 LBS, so the over eating is so wrong, but it tastes and feels so good.
Thanks for listening to me. I needed to get this off my chest.
SONIA

I just want to encourage Peggy. I have lost 90 pounds over the last 2 years and I know it isn't. I too have struggled since I was 8 years old, but somehow, when His timing was right, God showed me that I had to change and that I was the one that had to take responsibility for my body...even if it makes other people angry with you-or themselves. Just seek God to heal the hurts of the past and He will carry you through this. God Bless you and you are not alone in your struggle.

Dear Dr. Keith,

Today's show was so enlightening. I just wish your show was around in 1958 so that I would have had some tools given to my parents and me when the gym teacher called me "a big fat ugly k*ke". Back then parents were told to tell their children who were humiliated to ignore it all. In January 2007, those words are just as biting as the day they were said.

Oh, and in case you don't know what k*ke means, it's the same word used toward people who are Jewish as the N word is to an African American child.

I sat here and cried wishing I had the advantages these girls have. I am an emotional eater stemming from 12 years of sexual abuse as a child stretching into early adulthood. I still stress eat and cannot seem to stop. I am currently in therapy but wished I could have found a "fat camp" for adults. Now it is too late. My physical health will no longer allow for me to do much. Even my internal medicine doctor states that I am not even a candidate for lapband because of my breathing problems. I really hate my life and do not know how I can change. I cannot break the pattern without support, which I do not have. I watch these programs which deal with us fat people and only wish I had the support, the financial ability or the physical ability to do what is suggested in many cases. I have the greatest desire to be happy with myself but my weight (300+ pounds) contributes alot to my low self esteem. I have the desire to lose weight but not only do I not have the self control, I have many sabatures around me. I just want to wish anyone wanting to lose weight the best of luck because it is not an easy battle. I know, I've tried.

I believe that 30 years ago families had problems as they do now. The difference is the ingredients in the comfort foods we now have. I believe they are phyically addictive and could be eliminated from our diets but why kill the golden calf. Our children are being sacrificed in the name of the almighty dollar.