Yazan: love2eatinpa | 15 July 2010 | 25 Comments
Categories: Eating Disorder Reasearch
This is a cross posted on WATRD. On Tuesday, my husband showed me a really interesting article in the Wall Street Journal. It was called “Eating to Live or Living to Eat? Stomach vs. Brain: Discovering Why Some People Can Resist Dessert While Others Can’t” By Melinda Beck. It was a really interesting article and [...]
Yazan: love2eatinpa | 05 July 2010 | 33 Comments
Categories: Triathlon training, intuitive eating, recovery
My triathlon training continues to be moving along nicely. In fact, this morning, I am proud to report that, for the first time, I swam 16 laps in the pool without stopping! (Sixteen laps is the eqiuvalent of 1/4 mile, which is the distance of the swim portion of the triathlon.) When I started training [...]
Yazan: love2eatinpa | 06 April 2010 | 21 Comments
Categories: Day to Day Stuff, Holiday Eating, intuitive eating
So I blathered on the other day about how on Saturday 3/27 I tried my first day at intuitive eating. It just so happened that was the same day as my nephew’s 3rd birthday party. Typically, going to my sister-in-laws house for any event fills me with anxiety. For some reason, I was still holding [...]
Yazan: love2eatinpa | 24 March 2010 | 28 Comments
Categories: Day to Day Stuff, Helpful Books
I’ve been feeling a little bit different lately. Can’t put my finger on it. Could be a “womanly” issue. Or not. I’ve been reading a great book called “Eating in the Light of the Moon” by Anita Johnston that Christie at Honor My Health wrote a bit about on her blog. She went to a [...]
Yazan: love2eatinpa | 15 March 2010 | 22 Comments
Categories: Helpful Books
As most of you know, I have been dabbling a bit with Intuitive Eating. I have found some parts of it that work rather well for me in my recovery from compulsive overeating. Listening to my hunger and satiety cues, instead of just eating on a timed schedule has been a big change in my [...]
Yazan: love2eatinpa | 08 March 2010 | 32 Comments
Categories: Day to Day Stuff
I feel, especially after Friday night with the dinner/dessert buffet, that I really need to get serious again about dealing with this compulsive overeating of mine. My therapist totally rocks and we talk about tons of things that are very meaningful and I know it makes up the pieces of the puzzle that make me [...]
Yazan: love2eatinpa | 28 February 2010 | 31 Comments
Categories: How my Eating Disorder Affects my Kids, My Family and this Eating Disorder
So I mentioned a week or two ago that I finally pulled my head out of the sand, took off my rose-colored glasses, and told my 10-year old daughter that I had an eating disorder. Here is the letter I wrote and read to her, to get the conversation going… MamaV just posted it on [...]
Yazan: love2eatinpa | 21 January 2010 | 4 Comments
Categories: Day to Day Stuff, Uncategorized
The Dynamic Duo to Keeping My Weight Down I am honored to be guest blogging on the one and only MizFitOnline today about how excercising plays such an important role in my compulsive overeating recovery. Check it out here or keep on reading. The dynamic duo of being binge-free combined with working out has been [...]
Yazan: love2eatinpa | 29 October 2009 | 8 Comments
Categories: Day to Day Stuff
WARNING: this blog will explicitly mention some serious binge foods, so beware! So I went out to dinner with my husband and kids last night and had an abstinent dinner. We decided to go to Dairy Queen for dessert for my son and me. I got my usual fat-free fudge bar – 50 calories, hits the [...]
