Eating My Cake

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 [...]

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 [...]

Below is a transcript of a conversation I just had with Hope. I should tell you that Hope was arrested Sunday for stealing more Coricidin. I knew she was using… unbeknownst to her, one of her friends confided in me that she suspected it, and our mother knew because Hope was barely eating, a sure [...]

Look, the Olsen twins are really rich young women… but they are also two young women who who were pushed into this business as babies. I have some issues with what their parents did to them. They turned them into a “brand” by the age of 10.
Mary-Kate went through a rather public battle with anorexia [...]

I’m an Olympics junkie, and thankfully I married another of us, so we’ve watched a lot of hours of coverage. I’ve learned some things, but one in particular stands out.
If you are a parent, or plan to be, take note of this.
As a child, I loved to swim. I also was always trying [...]

My current class requires us to develop a lesson plan. We get to pick the grade level, the topic, etc. It just has to meet a state or national mandate.
Well, I thought it over and since I haven’t yet taken the courses that will teach me how to teach things like math or English, [...]

Two items from my daily Google searches really upset me this morning.
First, there is this story from Australia, where officials are pressing to institute schools to issue Fat Report Cards. UGH.
Then, far more insidious, is this story from the UK about Fat School. That’s right, the Fat Camp program has been turned into [...]