A Conversation with Dave Colan

Description

Trigger Warning: Dieting, weight gain and loss, fat phobia, eating disorders, disordered eating, body dysmorphia, and gastric sleeve surgery.

Episode Four of the second season of Grey Maybe is a conversation with Dave Colan, a comedy writer, director, and teacher. Dave shares his experience of being put on diets during childhood, being a larger bodied person, and his decision to eventually undergo gastric sleeve surgery. If you would like to share your story of recovery, please email greymaybestories@gmail.com

Do’s and Don’ts for how to cope with someone with an eating disorder: https://eatingdisorder.care/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Dos-and-Donts-EDCare.pdf

Overeaters Anonymous (OA) 12 Step Program: https://oa.org/

Intuitive eating: www.intuitiveeating.org/10-principles-of-intuitive-eating/

The Hungry Gene: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-87113-856-9

NYT article on weight loss surgery (subscription may be needed to access article): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/well/why-weight-loss-surgery-works-when-diets-dont.html

Dave’s IG: @davecolan

Jillian Schmitz IG @jillianschmitz

Bulimia: https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/eating-disorders/bulimia-nervosa/mental-health-bulimia-nervosa

Anorexia: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9794-anorexia-nervosa

Orthorexia: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/by-eating-disorder/other/orthorexia

Binge Eating Disorder: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/by-eating-disorder/bed

Eating disorders and emotions: https://www.mentalhelp.net/blogs/eating-disorders-self-mutilation-and-unexpressed-emotions-a-deadly-relationship/