Archive for April 9th, 2009
Green Eggs, Anyone?
When I was little, my mom often made us “jelly-rolls” for breakfast. To this day, it’s one of my favorite comfort foods … and when I make it/eat it, well … it pretty much grosses everyone out that I know!
What is a “jelly-roll,” you ask?
Ah, let me enlighten you. It’s regular, normal no-nonsense eggs … made with jelly inside, rolled-up in an omelet form.
And depending on the color jelly you use, your eggs just might have a green tint to them. (more…)
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How Disordered Do You Want to Be?
I ask this because I, like you, have a choice.
The answer for me is … not at all.
We have a choice. We might tell ourselves our disordered minds are in control, but they’re not. We are.
If we punish ourselves with restriction or over-exercising, or if we punish ourselves with a binge, we’re doing it to ourselves.
It’s not about the food or the exercise; it’s always about something else. Food or exercise (lack of it or over-abundance of it) is a coping mechanism.
And I don’t want to use either as my coping mechanisms any longer.
This weekend, during an Honest.Open.Willing. chat with my husband, he asked me point-blank, “When will the obsession end?”
He sees me more than any of my friends and family, and he sees glimmers of hope, some aspects of behavioral change. He knows I want to be better, to be more fun again, to be the happy girl I was when I was heavy … but he (as well as others close to me) have said, ” … but the obsession is still there.”
He’s right, it is.
I want to turn it off. I don’t want to be disordered, or have disordered thoughts, or to make progress only to fall back. (more…)
19 comments April 9, 2009
TIME Magazine: Is Vegetarianism a Teen Eating Disorder?
YogiClareBear shared an article with me yesterday that I want to post here today to see what you think about it.
The article, “Study: Is Vegetarianism a Teen Eating Disorder” was published in TIME magazine this week, and you can read it here.
The premise is that for some teens, “going vegetarian” is an easy way to mask disordered eating behaviors.
Here’s a snippet:
“…Parents tend to overlook seemingly mild, earnest teen pursuits like joining the Sierra Club, but a new study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association suggests that another common teen fad, vegetarianism, isn’t always healthy. Instead, it seems that a significant number of kids experiment with a vegetarian diet as a way to mask an eating disorder, since it’s a socially acceptable way to avoid eating many foods and one that parents tend not to oppose.”
Hm … what do you think? Isn’t this how disordered eating starts? A food, or food group, is banned? And then something else and so on and so on? (more…)
12 comments April 9, 2009
