food

Revisiting the Issue of Packing Your Own Lunch

August 21, 2010

Now, I have often used the concept of packing your own lunch as a metaphor for the myriad of ways that you can take care of your body by feeding it properly. I love packing my lunch, because it not only allows me to avoid the middle-of-the-day-food-scramble but also because there is something comforting about [...]

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this is what progress looks like

July 22, 2010

Or, Why I Refused To Starve Myself For The Photoshoot. I will warn you that if you are easily triggered, this post may prove upsetting for you. I talk very blatantly about my disordered eating emotions/thought patterns and extreme body image lows, though there is a happy ending, I pinky swear. Now. I thought that [...]

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learning to eat healthfully without restriction

July 10, 2010

So, when I polled my readers recently for topics that they would like covered here, the lovely @djodrylapointe [follow her, she's lovely] asked me to address the topic of learning to eat healthfully, but without falling into restrictive dieting. And wouldn’t you know, this is one of my favorite topics these days? Because this can be [...]

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eating for a busy life

June 19, 2010

The thing about local food is that it just tastes so much better. This morning I woke up, and the minute my eyes opened, I was craving a local egg scramble with mushrooms, onions, and goat cheese and gluten free toast – you know, the kind of food that you could have cooked for yourself, [...]

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what if: I pushed through my Danger Zone?

June 2, 2010

Yesterday Christine over at BlissChick wrote a phenomenal post about her relationship with her body and her gluten intolerance, in which she discussed how she feels a zillion times better when she doesn’t eat gluten – even though she loves gluten [who doesn't???]. Anywho, she merrily existed for a month or so, gluten free, when [...]

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