Thank God for pancakes!

So if you’ve been following along, my mini-vacation from work starts tomorrow. I have fudged a bit and sort of started it today. Both bosses are gone and I have the office to myself. I’ve got my XM going on the computer and it’s cranked up loud and I’m having a great time getting some [...]

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Stress Findings

ED Bites has posted some neat snippets of an article about rats and baboons coping with stress… Tantilizing snippet (so, ya know… go to ED Bites and see the rest! ): [H]is research, combined with a rich background provided by other scientists, has led him to figure out a bunch of very basic tips to help [...]

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Troubles with Fast Eating

Do you ever eat too fast?  I’ve been eating too fast for pretty much my whole life.  Even in recovering from the eating disorders, I’ve still been an annoyingly fast eater.  It wouldn’t bother me to eat too fast if it didn’t often give me tummy problems or cause me to overeat… and overeating for [...]

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Broken Playground Toy Epidemic! & Awesome Fat Gymnast!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL… I was looking for a pic for a shout-out to A Day in the Fat Life’s neat post and found this gem over to the left… hahahahahaha… If broken see-saws are such a tragedy, why not make them sturdier and more appropriately sized for today’s children who are larger than generations past (ya know… one [...]

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Hormones are raging!

So at 45 years old I have decided to start the birth control pill once again. I gave my body a break for a couple of years and I’m ready for the regularity and spontanaety of being back on the pill. I’m on the third week of my first pack and, as usual, I’m experiencing [...]

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Oh No! Cellulite!

I don’t know much about Kim Kardashian… but I did catch some recent photos that were released from Complex.com showing her before and after photoshopped pics for a magazine.  OMG, get your helmets!!!!  CELLULITE!!!!  <<cowers in corner with helmet and axe awaiting rampage of evil cellulite>>  Kim responded: …I’m proud of my body and my [...]

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Tweet What You Eat

*Headdesk*… link here. Do you wanna know how many calories your friend ate at lunch?  Just read his/her twitter!  While a food diary can be a helpful thing, somehow I’m skeptical that posting one’s food journal to everyone you know is going to be a great step towards public health.  The first thing that occurred [...]

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“I am Capable”?

I’ve been working on finding the feeling of being capable in myself, since WRT2 wrote her brillaince about visualizing being full of love… my original call-0ut of her lovely post and my own rumination on the topic is here. I am a person who has rarely felt capable in her life… I am just starting [...]

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Family Update

My family is a real piece of work… seriously.  At 4pm yesterday, I decided to try to call my mom even though I figured she was in a hospital waiting for my step-dad to get his open-heart surgery done… and therefore she wouldn’t have her cell on.  I call.  She picks up immediately.  They’re AT [...]

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Leap of faith

In 2005 I began what I thought was my recovery road from compulsive overeating.  In March 2009 I view it in a different way and I’d like to share my thoughts on this. In January 2005, I was told by a psychiatrist that I had an eating disorder and that I needed help.  Sitting there [...]

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