Five years ago this Tuesday (9/12/12) I had surgery to repair a thoracic aortic aneurysm. My journey is well documented here. As I reflect back on that time, it was a much more stressful period in my life. I was a manager of somewhere around 18 employees in a busy clinic working for a horrible…
Originally posted on Power, Peace, and the Porch Gym:
Dear Oprah: I just saw your Weight Watchers commercial. I got really angry when I heard the opening line: “Inside every overweight woman, is a woman she knows she can be.” Being an overweight woman yourself does not qualify you to tell stories about what is…
Originally posted on Honouring Appetite:
Recently we shared this image over at Libero Network. I stumbled across it somewhere in the webosphere (credit to recoverylifeandcats.tumblr.com) and it caught my attention. We’ve all seen the Special K adds “What will you gain when you lose?” (a topic for a future post…); however, this image throws it…
Originally posted on The EnLightened Journey:
Most people have one mother. I was fortunate enough to have four women in my life that filled that role at one time or another. The first woman in this life was Norelle. She passed in and out of my life in less than three years including pregnancy. She…
I think one of the most difficult barriers I’ve encountered on my journey towards self acceptance is the constant barrage of input telling me that people in larger bodies can’t really be “happy”. In stark contrast to the “fat and jolly” stereotype is the notion that all fat people are unhappy deep down. And this…
Originally posted on Dear Bee:
Dear Bee, Finally, a week has passed without any eating disorder behaviors. This used to be an insignificant milestone for me. MONTHS was how I tracked it. Lately, however, it has been more of a battle, and, so I’ll take the small victory. Because I’m being kind to myself 🙂…
Originally posted on Nailsbails:
“Care Instructions: tumble-dry low and then never wear again.” I’m finally cool. After years of ho-ho dieting, I’ve gotten back down to my college weight, and I’ve never felt cooler. Literally. As in, I’m freezing. This morning, my hands turned blue, and I had to put on a down jacket and…
So the idea is that I need to learn that food is food. It does not have power, it is neither good nor bad, and when I am hungry – I should eat. You will just keep eating and eating and eating! When you ate that before, you ate too many pieces, too much! If…
Originally posted on Dear Bee:
To the world, I don’t care about your diet. I don’t care that today is low-carb and tomorrow is a cheat day. I don’t care that sugar is your food version of the devil. I don’t care that you eat every three hours, six hours, or twenty-four hours. I don’t…
Originally posted on Stepping into yourself:
There are times when everything seems so easy. Leaving behind the diet mentality seems the most simple thing. Eating what I want can be done without thought or guilt. Then there are times when something has struck me again and I find myself going back over old ground with…
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