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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compulsive eating: situations and solutions

May 6, 2010

It occurred to me recently, in my own personal battle with compulsive eating and my pledge to teach myself to eat intuitively, that there are certain situations, mood patterns, and personal obstacles where my old patterns re-emerge full force even when I have the best intentions. Now, these situations will vary from person to person, [...]

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guest posting AWESOME and the giveaway WINNER

April 29, 2010

Wow. It has been an insane/exciting/crazy/awesome week here at Medicinal Marzipan. There are quite a few phenomenal comments on my previous post, What if I Stopped Comparing Myself to Others, have you read it yet? Really lovely and wonderful reader responses, including one from my adorable baby sister – sobfest2010.  And you all know that [...]

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