Posted in weight loss and diets on 14 February 2007 | No Comments »
Valentine’s Day is being pushed by commercial interests in Germany. You can buy flowers, Lindt chocolates in a heart-shaped box, you can even go to the new Hugh Grant movie in a special Valentine’s Day sneak preview.
And sausage. You can buy Valentine’s sausage, with a heart-shaped cervelat wurst (a finely ground salami) surrounded by a [...]
Posted in binging on 13 February 2007 | No Comments »
Frill-necked lizards open their frills when frightened, in order to scare off their enemy.
Cats arch their backs and raise their fur to look bigger.
Even the Pufferfish fills up with water and expands to several times its normal size.
Me? I feel fat. I don’t get fatter anymore, thanks to the therapy that helped me stop compulsively [...]
Posted in intuitive eating, jon stewart and stephen colbert on 11 February 2007 | 1 Comment »
Note on the side: scale shows another loss - more than a pound.
I’m looking to link to like-minded blogs. Can you recommend any? My interests include:
non-diet weight loss, intuitive eating
fitness through walking and other moderate exercise
Jane Austen and Regency life
movies, especially romantic comedies
Jon Stewart and the Daily Show
BBC and British TV historical drama
social history, particularly [...]
Posted in emotions on 10 February 2007 | No Comments »
Eating disorders make many things simple. When you are happy, you eat (or don’t eat, if that’s your particular disorder). Same thing for sad, tired, angry, frustrated, scared, excited, proud, ashamed, humiliated, any emotion at all.
When you move out of your eating disorder, you have to figure out new responses to these emotions. My choice [...]
Posted in goals, portion control on 6 February 2007 | No Comments »
Only a week into the shortest month of the year, and I’ve found the right goals for this month. They are (take a deep breath now):
My focus on work
Hours of overtime
Hobbies attended to
Chores completed
Exercise (target 60 mins. per day)
Minutes of exercise
Self-care activities
Weight (but only approx 2x per week)
Food volume (HighMediumLow)
Portion control (YesNo)
It actually only takes [...]
Posted in weight loss and diets on 4 February 2007 | No Comments »
It was a good birthday, even if it was quiet, and the present comes next weekend, when we go to Berlin.
I made my own cake (see pic), adapting the recipe from O magazine this month. It was delicious, even if I’m struggling to find pans of the correct size. Somehow I’ve put my pans away, [...]
Posted in emotions on 2 February 2007 | No Comments »
I want to be skinny. I want to just go off in a corner and sleep until I’m thin. Emotionally, I don’t want to eat, but I still eat. Not big amounts, mind you, it’s not like I’m binging, but I’m in the mood to eat very tiny portions. But I still eat normal portions [...]
Posted in binging on 2 February 2007 | No Comments »
It was a killer birthday cake: homemade cake, rich with sour cream, filled with a rum ganache, and frosted with a custard-style chocolate frosting.
And I wasn’t interested in eating any more. I’d had enough. A big piece on my birthday, and I threw part away. The next day I ate it for breakfast, and threw [...]
Posted in intuitive eating on 2 February 2007 | No Comments »
I used to be greedy for food. Nothing could fill me up, it seemed. For the obvious reason that it wasn’t food I was really craving.
This week I “fed” myself in many ways:
food: real, delicious food, when I was hungry
food: emotionally appealing tasty snacks, just because they tasted good
self-esteem: sticking up for myself and not [...]
