Friday Series — Self Esteem

Self Esteem, Step One:  Evict the people who aren’t supportive of your from your brain.  They’re not doing anything constructive.  Every single time you start to feel good about yourself, the voices come in with “you aren’t good enough”, or “you shouldn’t feel this way.”  Every time you take a chance to do something you’ve [...]

Intuitive Eating … I’m doing it wrong

I’ve been wanting to write a post about how sometimes, for me, intuitive eating isn’t so intuitive.  But each time I start to write, the words come out all wrong.  Something was missing.  While I had a bunch of words down, I only seemed to be rambling on and on about nothing.
Then today, doing my [...]

What are you waiting for?

This weekend my husband and I had a grand time doing a lot of stuff we didn’t do while I was having issues with my knee.   Last year a bit before this time, we’d decided we were going to go to the Denver Aquarium.  I LOVE looking at fish, and there are so many different [...]

Saturday Fluff – Favorite Food

What’s your favorite food?  This question gets asked all the time in internet memes.  It’s the one question that’s sure to drive me crazy!
With all the different kinds of foods out there, how can I pick just one favorite?  I like sushi and sashimi, and steak and potatoes.  I like a turkey dinner with all [...]

Men (humans) are not mice.

No, really.  You’d think by now that researchers would understand that.
There was an article out in the Science Daily recently about how calorie restriction may not, in fact, extend people’s lives, even though it does for mice.  (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924151018.htm)
One of the comments by the researchers was that it was “puzzling because it was the first time we [...]

Friday series

Part of my being able to accept my size and my being fat and live my life as if it doesn’t matter (because, well, it doesn’t) has been working on building my self-esteem.   I’ve talked a little in one post about self-esteem already, but I thought I might do a series on how to develop self-esteem.
One thing [...]

You don’t get to comment on what I eat … reprised

The other day, I got a response to “You Don’t Get to Comment on What I Eat”, saying:
I guess what I don’t understand is why you felt the need to offer up any kind of suggestion beyond “yes” in the first place. When you do that, I can’t help but feel that the other person [...]

Visit with the new Doctor

I’m very surprised, pleasantly surprised.   
This doctor has no issues with my weight.  We talked a bit about the issues I’ve had with doctors having issues with my weight, including the previous GP who kept trying to force anti-depressants on me because I am fat.   Her response to that was, “But one of the side effects [...]

Actually, you DON’T get to comment on what I eat

Today I ran into a local branch of a national craft store for some jewelry findings I’m running low on.  On the way out (after also looking at the fiber and getting some tatting thread to redo a handkerchief I made somebody that I will do better now that I know more) I realized I [...]

America the Beautiful

I found out about this movie from Feed Me.  It looks to be a good documentary on our obsession with “beauty”.  Go here to learn more about the movie.  America the Beautiful  Unfortunately, being a documentary (and one taking on the beauty industry), it’s only got limited showings (and none that I can find in [...]