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My Doctor Says I’m Prediabetic
I’m only able to work on my prediabetes because I finally cleared old pain.
My Middle Age Morale Problem
My life isn’t worse than it used to be; the problem is that I don’t have as much hope.
My Wheat-Free Life, Part 1
I’ve stopped eating anything that contains or is coated with wheat flour because wheat gives me stomach aches and I don’t like pain.
Wars of the Buttercream Roses
Well, the McCombs Candida Plan is effectively over. The last part of it is that I'm supposed to stay off dairy products until Feb. 21st, but actually I’m eating whatever I want at this point and it's not good. Since Juldmort my anxiety level gradually lessened until...
Releasing Another Layer (Cake)
Previous post on this topic: McCombs Candida Plan Day 53 I've been on the 16-week (112-day) McCombs Candida Plan for 71 days and yesterday I completely rebelled by buying a Pepperidge Farm frozen cake and trying to eat it (after thawing it, of course). But a strange...
Coronavirus and Addiction
I published this story on Medium.com: I live alone and I started using again. The coronavirus isolation has caused a perfect storm for addicts struggling to stay on the wagon. Follow me on Medium.com where I write even more stuff.
Speak Up for Fat People
Previous post on food & weight: The science-defying, middle-aged female body! You might not be able to read this article called A call to action: your fat friend is going it alone. Medium.com is a membership website of curated articles written by people who have...
Get Thinner without Losing Weight
Previous post on weight & health: Doing depression right I've been eating very healthfully for five weeks. I'm happy to fit into my size 2XL shirts (down from my 3XL shirts), to be able to wear my rings again, and to hear my friends say I look slimmer. But the...
Doing Depression Right
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...
I’m Going for Effortless Weight Loss
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...
Waiting for Weight to Wane
Previous post on weight & health: How do I stop the pain? I've been trying to lose weight ever since I became fat in 2013. In my last post, I wrote about working with a natural health practitioner, who said my healing process had a spiritual element (ugh!). She...
How Do I Stop the Pain?
Previous post on weight & health: Not getting better I run a depression support group Meetup and this week we talked about ways to treat depression other than with medication. I've happily been on anti-depressants since 2010, so I'm not knocking meds, but I wanted...
Not Getting Better
Previous post on weight & health: Weight loosening I recently revised the labels on my blog. If you go to the labels cloud in the right column (in desktop view) and click on fatness, you'll see that I've been obsessed with food, diets, exercise, losing and gaining...