Previous post on food & weight: Supporting the spleen. Read my full weight & health journey by using desktop view and scrolling down on the right to the section called Fat? Me, too. I've blogged a LOT about food and weight. If you want to read all those posts...
Previous post on food and weight: No sugar cravings. Apparently each type of cell has its own life cycle with certain kinds cells lasting a few days (colon, sperm) and others lasting weeks (skin), months (red blood) or years (white blood). This means the body is...
Previous post on food & weight: I fasted for three days It was 1994 and I was 28 years old when I realized I had a problem with sugar. In the 26 years since then I've worked hard to end my physical and emotional dependence on sweets. In the past few years, two...
Previous post on food & weight: Fatness check-in The NRT practitioner at Gnosis Natural Health has helped me with many health problems and is especially good with chronic conditions. I've been seeing her for various problems and aches since January 2016. She told...
Previous post on food & weight: Grieving my sweet tooth . Time for an update on how I'm doing with my sugar addiction and weight. I continue to work with the NRT practitioner at Gnosis Natural Health who recently targeted my hormone levels as a part of why I'm...
Previous post on food/fatness: Fatness - let's review Read my full weight & health journey by using desktop view and scrolling down on the right to the section called Fat? Me, too. My physical and emotional dependence on processed sugar has caused me decades of...
My dad and me, June 2018 I was pretty big Previous post on fatness: Get thinner without losing weight To each post that's about weight I've put links that lead you through those posts. This lets you read the story of my weight like a book (with photos. I dislike blogs...
Previous post on weight & health: No change Working with an NRT practitioner since 2016 has taught me that there are endless ways our health can be messed up. We develop physical problems and/or inherit them from our parents, grandparents and ancestral line. We...
This post follows up on my recent posts about wanting to be less fat: How do I stop the pain and Waiting for weight to wane. Since I became fat, I've known that losing this fat will not happen with dieting or eating in any way that I can't sustain for the rest of my...
My depressions usually last for months or weeks, and in the past it's been years. Earlier this year I had a depression that lasted for six weeks, but since then I've had two episodes that were much shorter: a week at the end of March, and one day this past weekend....
My depression lifted! I'm SO grateful. Last Tuesday I went to one of my part-time jobs managing a co-working space, and when I started interacting with people I noticed that I felt like smiling for the first time in weeks. In the next moment I noticed that I felt...
Here's an update on how my attempt to lose some fatness is going: it's...kind of...going. Since I last posted about my continued fatness two months ago, I had some pretty discouraging weeks. This is what I filled them with: 1. I tried to exercise more, which is...
Previous post on weight & health: Wheat is the culprit I've spent most of my life as a thin person. I was a skinny kid and then a gym rat who constantly struggled to stay down at a size 10 or under. My raging sweet tooth that never stopped somehow never tipped the...
After my year of austerity (drastically reduced sugar, dairy and grains), I totally indulged last week when I visited familia in Houston, Texas. I ate cookies and cupcakes and pie. I also had grain-y foods like pancakes and tamales because I wanted to take a break...
I'm amazed to blog this, but after a year of struggling with horrific cramping, today is day two of my period and I'm not in agony! Four ibuprofen every 3-4 hours has kept me comfortable, as in PAIN-FREE. Oh, my god. I'm so, so grateful. I can hardly believe it. I'd...