Yesterday I had the distinct pleasure of watching this scene unfold: “You know, if you eat a bunch of pizza you are going to gain FIFTY pounds.” “Uh huh, I know. And then I would weigh a hundred and THIRTY pounds. Yuck.” “Yeah, I have to be really careful.” Mother watching these two girls was [...]
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The thing about doing this Couch to 5K program is that I have to leave the cozy confines of my apartment and hit the street with my exercising. In the past six weeks, I have gone out and RUN IN PUBLIC three times a week – often in the rain or snow, and frequently at [...]
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A new wave of research discussed by the New York Times a couple of weeks ago begins with a single question: Do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends and family? The article goes on to talk about a new arena of psychological research geared towards the notions of self-compassion and treating [...]
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Hello my loves. I have come to the exciting/terrifying conclusion. While you may all think I’ve been on a vacation over here for my lack of posting, I have in fact been having my ass handed to me in gradschool, SO I am taking the next two weeks off. As in off off. As in [...]
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I have been thinking about the article Marie Claire article, The Hunger Diaries, all day, wondering what I could possibly say and why it is that I find myself caring quite so much about the points the article made. As a body image and healthy living blogger, I find the claims made by Katie Drummond [...]
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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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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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Now I know that this isn’t a true What If Wednesday, because DUH it’s Thursday. But, I was planning this post for yesterday, when I was too zonked out and weepy from actually taking care of my health that I was carted away in a little whambulance whenever I sat up and actually attempted to [...]
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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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I frequently talk about my life-long experience with compulsive eating [The Scarcity Model, Compulsive Eating, and a New Fondness for Post-Its, Confessions of a Compulsive Eater, II, and Compulsive Eating: Situations and Solutions], but lately I have been more interested in focusing on the here and now, switching topics slightly to concentrate on intuitive eating [...]
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