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 don’t often post about my infertility journey here (okay, lately I don’t often post, period. Gotta work on that!). However, I wrote this poem recently, and felt compelled to share it in a place where maybe it might reach more who understand or need to hear someone else does.
Ready
I am ready to let go
To [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

One might think that being a blogger about body acceptance and positive body image would be anti-makeup. On the contrary, I support most things a person can do to maximize their positive feelings about themselves.
I feel that makeup is only a problem if someone can’t leave the house without it. This is not me. [...]