Eating My Cake

I want to wish you all a happy (if belated) 2010! I hope this year is one where you learn to be gentle and kind with yourself and your body. May you find acceptance in the person you are, inside and out!
With the start of a new year often comes resolutions. The emphasis tends to [...]

In October of 2007, I confessed to my husband that I was really struggling with emotional baggage mainly related to my lifelong struggle with food. While I showed early signs of disordered eating, I didn’t truly develop an eating disorder until I spent several years under the watchful and often vindictive and malicious eye of [...]

Principle one of Intuitive Eating is to reject the diet mentality. This is the first principle for the very simple fact that without being prepared to fully and totally accept that dieting, and the mindset it puts one in, does not work, you cannot be an intuitive eater. You simply can’t. If you’re thinking about [...]

I am posting all ten. In weeks to come, I aim to address each one and how I have worked through the principle or still am struggling with it. I am doing this because with stress and depression comes not being as attentive… and so this is a refresher course for me, and hopefully helpful [...]

This post is dedicated to the memory of my best’s friend’s brother, who recently died of this complicated disorder. When she found out why he died, I promised her I would post in his memory in an attempt to use what little presence I have in the blogosphere to raise awareness of this relatively unknown [...]

As you know from looking at my sidebar, I am a Wellsphere blogger. I am asking for your vote in their People’s Health Blogger Awards competition. The voting closes on 1.15, and you can vote for me by clicking on the badge in my sidebar.
Thanks for your support!!! It is appreciated more than words [...]

Maybe it’s asking too much, but I expect better from a “medical” site like WebMd. Wait, given the mainstream medical profession’s attitudes towards weight, I guess this isn’t so shocking.
I get email updates from them on the category of weight loss/dieting. This “find the perfect diet for you” quiz caught my eye, so I [...]

It is very common for those of us who have fibromyalgia to also struggle with irritable bowel syndrome. IBS is a frustrating and embarrassing condition. It can also be quite painful and debilitating.
I have actually struggled with IBS far longer than fibromyalgia, and my presentation is somewhat unique. Nausea tends to be my biggest [...]

I have a cold. It’s not that bad of a cold, but combine it with the fibro and all hell breaks loose.
I am having a hard time eating. I don’t have the energy to eat. I remind myself that I need to eat, it’s important for my body… but preparing food is way more [...]

In June Serena told me about the great opportunity she had to work directly with a brand new in-patient eating disorder center in Denver. At the time, she said she’d planned to keep office space up here, for her local patients. Denver is a 50 minute drive for me, and one I’m not real keen [...]