The only reason we overeat

Life’s greatest adventure is finding your place in the Circle of Life.  - Lion King
Pulling food out of the trash can. Sneaking bites of frosting in the office kitchen. Hollowing out the inside of a pastry and putting it back. Eating one M&M after another until you feel like your stomach will burst. Letting the [...]

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Positive Changes I’m making

Positive changes I’ve noticed that I am making:

My changes are permanent. Several days of eating lightly don’t result in a late-night tryst with chocolate cake
The more often I eat what I want, when I want it, the more I’m able to choose foods and quantities that will support weight loss
These changes spill over into the [...]

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Food Log for Monday

Just because it’s on my mind, I’m going to log the food I ate today.

pineapple and tea for breakfast

pound cake at work for my birthday and coffee with sugar

salad, soup and roll with butter for lunch

half a Kitkat dark and espresso with sugar for dessert

Snickers bite size bar midafternoon snack

will have sandwich and salad for [...]

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What do I eat on my non-diet diet?

The idea of a diet for an intuitive eater seems rather incongruous for some readers. Some of you have asked what I eat, and how I control something that’s supposed to be “intuitive.”
The intuitive part is easy. While I am an intuitive eater, I don’t have a lifetime of practice behind me, and I need [...]

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Going on an intuitive eating diet

I’m a normal eater. I’m clearly losing weight, and able to maintain my intuitive eating abilities, even when I don’t stand on a scale every day. Compulsive eating is no longer a disorder that controls my life. This is amazing progress, and I’m very proud of these achievements.
There’s more I want, though. More fitness, more [...]

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Intuitive Eating Success

Sometimes when you least expect it, success comes up and whacks you in the face.
We finally got around to buying another scale today, after the old one went dead some months ago.
I can proudly proclaim that I intuitively ate during that whole period, made it through Christmas, and nearly stopped exercising altogether.
And lost over 1 [...]

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Kaegi-fretli, or chocolate cookie cravings

This year has a slightly different theme compared to last year. I’m more aggressive in eating less, and trying to lose weight while still eating intuitively. We’ll see how things go. Last year I lost a significant amount of weight, but don’t know how much, since my scale is broken and I’m in no hurry [...]

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Alive and working

Work is inevitable. Struggle is optional.
I’m still here - just swamped at work. I’m working in the mornings before I go to work, all day without a pause, then in the evenings again after I get home.
No chance to get out to swim since last Sunday. No chance to write thoughtful posts to my blog. [...]

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Big Fat Diet Lies: Busted!

Lately there have been a lot of truth-seekers out there, and they are finding the diet world a rich ground to dig in. Here are some tidbits:

Carbs are bad for you: some investigative science from Gary Taubes
The Naked Scientists regularly tackle questions about nutrition. Lately I heard them note that most Western world people don’t [...]

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Airline “Fat Tax”: a rational approach

An Australian nutritionist recommended that airlines charge a “fat tax.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7090529.stm His argument is politically motivated, because he wants to use it as social policy to reduce obesity in Australia. Dumb.
One of the better articles on the subject was written in 2002: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2083660.stm What I like about that article is that it analyzes the percentage of people [...]

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