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 is from a writer with the company I am partnering with for some articles about comfort when you work. I feel this is an excellent piece and that it’s very relevant in a world of anti-fat sentiment. Enjoy!
Body Acceptance in the Office

Most Americans spend the majority of their day sitting at a desk or [...]

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 [...]

…he is gone, and I am so very, very sad.

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 [...]

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, [...]