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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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what IF: I start making sex a priority?

July 14, 2010

Now – if you’re new here, welcome to Medicinal Marzipan, where no topic is off limits and where TMI is both frequent and expected. Please, keep reading. Haha. Well now that we’ve gotten THAT disclaimer out of the way, lets discuss. I am a busy girl. I am busy moving and shaking and making insane [...]

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guest posting AWESOME

April 10, 2010

Hello hello marzipanlings! Happy Saturday! Today I am Mary’s guest blogger over at A Merry Life, blogging about my history with compulsive eating and body image. A Merry Life is a blog about healthy living, weight loss, and nutrition, and is absolutely awesome and worth checking out immediately. She is also the author of A [...]

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a body recovered

December 5, 2009

I’ve been having a difficult time lately with my body.  We have not been getting along.  It will not do anything I say, stubbornly holding on to the (fat) cells which protect it from my anger and meanness, knowing full and well that my mind has not been in the right place and I have [...]

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confessions of a compulsive eater, II

August 20, 2009

or, Lessons I Don’t Want to Teach My Daughters, depending. I feel revolting. I am too busy to feel revolting. And yet, here I am, again, feeling like my skin is too tight and I am suffocating in my overwhelming need to consume. I will give myself a slight reprieve: I did quit smoking – [...]

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