Bugged by a Bug
I don’t know if I am feeling residual H1N1 affects, have a stomach bug, or what … but for the past three days I’ve had zero appetite, have felt bloated, crampy in my lower back and stomach … and downright miserable all-around.
My period isn’t due for another week, and I’m pretty positive I’m not pregnant (because I’m sure that will be someone’s guess given some of those symptoms!) so I don’t know what gives.
What’s bugging me out is there’s never been a day in this girl’s life where I didn’t want to eat. And I don’t quite know what to make of it!
It feels weird, wrong, to not want/crave/think about food at all. It’s not ME. (more…)
6 comments December 9, 2009
Positivity Reinforcement on YogiClareBear’s Blog!
Check out this awesome post on positivity and enter YogiClareBear’s giveaway (I won last month!). As a glass-half-full kind of girl, this seemed like a natural fit. 
I plan to practice positivity.
Last night at dinner, for example, my friends and I made an elderly man’s night by taking his flirting in stride and teasing/smiling back at him. We could have been turned off; instead, we felt like we made his night.
Add comment December 8, 2009
Article Worth Sharing
A reader shared this article with me, “10 Common Myths About Eating Disorders.” I am sure you will agree with most of (if not all) the myths discussed in the piece.
You can read the full article here, and I welcome any input you might have.
6 comments December 7, 2009
Let’s Make the Holiday Season About “Living” and Not Just “Giving”
Check out my latest blog post over at WeAretheRealDeal.com, Let’s Make the Holiday Season About “Living” and Not Just “Giving,” or you can read it after the jump. (more…)
Add comment December 7, 2009
Kate & Me
I fully admit that I have never watched Jon & Kate Plus 8 … but just from following their fall from grace in the tabloids and in the blogosphere over the past year or so (how could you miss it?!), I feel like she and I are (dare I say it?) soul sisters in a sense.
You see, while our life stories are completely different (and I don’t have 8 children/a reality show/book deals, or make my husband feel like he’s 2 and therefore needs to rebel and hook up with 21-yr old girls to sow his oats…) …
We have similar personality DNA, in that she and I are both Type-A control-freaks with super-high expectations for ourselves and those we surround ourselves with … who needed to be brought down to reality.
And over the past year, while she has navigated a separation and divorce in the public eye, I’ve put my recovery journey out there in the public (albeit a niche public!) eye.
One could argue taboo things like divorce or recovery belong behind closed doors (and full disclosure here–I still question her desire to continue the show with her children while going through her divorce), but I also think there is some truth to transparency being a (surprising) healer. (more…)
Add comment December 7, 2009
Living a Little
One of the common themes in last week’s post about needing a breather was that some of my readers would like to hear more about how I am living life now … how I’m embracing the here and now.
To illustrate this (and more to come later on the topic) I thought I’d share it in some pictures, taken this past weekend at my husband’s company holiday party and afterwards in the park.
3 comments December 6, 2009
Navigating an Identity Crisis
I know I said I wouldn’t blog the rest of this week, but I wrote this post for WeAretheRealDeal and wanted to share it here, as well. You can read it here or after the jump.
Hope everyone has a safe, happy and healthy weekend and I hope to be back next week, rejuvenated! (more…)
4 comments December 4, 2009
A Little Breather …
Hi guys, just a little note … I’m taking a much-needed break from blogging the rest of this week, and didn’t want to disappear without giving some advance word.
Things are going well for me re: food/exercise/body image … and frankly, I don’t have much to say on that front–and that’s a good thing.
For a while now, part of me has been curious about putting this side (i.e., the recovery side) of my blog to bed in favor of broaching broader topics … but I’m nervous/unsure about it, or even how to do it.
I welcome thoughts from bloggers who have done this. How did you “un-brand yourself”? I don’t just want to be known as a recovery blogger. I mean, it’s a part of me, but not all of me. (more…)
9 comments December 2, 2009
Too “Fat” to Graduate?
Wow, just … wow.
I have nothing to say here except to share this article and see what you think about it. Per the article, “Students at Lincoln University with a body mass index of 30 or above, reflective of obesity, must take a fitness course that meets three hours per week. Those who are assigned to the class but do not complete it cannot graduate.”
Can you imagine?! As if body image issues aren’t a big enough deal for college students, now they might not graduate on account of being overweight?! WTF?!
People go to college for an education … not to enter a beauty contest or begin a modeling career where appearances matter.
While you know I’m all for promoting physical fitness and advocating good health … come on … how can this be for real!?
How about you? What do you think? What would you do if you were a student at this school?
6 comments November 30, 2009
Junk Food As Addicting As Heroin?!
Friend and blog reader Yas passed this blog post from FitSugar on to me and I wanted to share it with all of you.
Since we’re coming off one of the traditional food-fest holidays where sweets and treats are abundant, I thought it’d be an appropriate and timely piece.
Per FitSugar, “A new study says that eating junk food can fuel an addiction that is on par with what a cocaine or heroin junkie feels. The study, conducted by the Scripps Research Institute, followed the behavioral patterns of lab rats that were given an unlimited supply of junk food.
Over time, the rats had less sensitivity in their brain’s pleasure centers and needed to up the amount of high-fat and high-calorie foods they were eating, in effect, to get high. Not surprisingly, the rats got really fat too — doubling their initial weight.” (more…)
5 comments November 30, 2009
