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 [...]

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 [...]

This is a horrifying story.
My heart breaks for this poor girl. First of all, she was 165 pounds. I expected her to be far heavier, based on how the story opens (not that it would’ve been acceptable at any weight, but I just didn’t expect the girl to weigh under 200). Second, I can [...]

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 [...]

Let’s talk about Oprah. I’m very disappointed in her, to be frank.
With all of her incredible success, and the amazing accomplishments of her lifetime, she’s going to let being 200 pounds be the big (no pun intended) news story of her life at the moment?
I mean, seriously… if Oprah can’t overcome being so [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I went to a rheumatologist with the hopes of getting an “official” diagnosis of fibromyalgia. I don’t know why it mattered so much, but emotionally, I really wanted to hear, “oh, yes… you definitely have fibromyalgia.”
It’s foolish, since I *know* I have fibro. My husband believes it. My primary care physician (PCP) believes it, [...]

In November, TMZ and various magazines famously ran pictures of Jennifer Love Hewitt in a bikini while celebrating her engagement. The pics were, naturally, incredibly unflattering… and since we rarely see a celeb looking like she really does, who knows how close to reality they even were? Either the magazines make ‘em look worse [...]