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Noom Obsesses Over Calories
Noom’s another calorie-counting app. No, thanks.
How Does Noom Work?
Noom promises weight loss with new techniques, but I doubt it.
My Doctor Says I’m Prediabetic
I’m only able to work on my prediabetes because I finally cleared old pain.
I Hate Myself: Depression and Low Self-Esteem Aren’t Always Linked
You’d think getting rid of one would take care of the other, but no.
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.
Losing Weight Isn’t about Losing Weight
Complaining about my weight gets understanding, but the real problem is self-esteem.
Let Me Articulate Your Anxieties
I'm doing pretty well as a Medium writer, getting attention and earning a bit of money. I'm happy with how it's going. But I can't help but suspect that I'm doing well because I started publishing there during the coronavirus. It's a good time to start publishing on...
El amanecer
Shrieking Dawn was a nutjob And even though she's dead is a nutjob still. But even if I can't get her gibbering chorus out of my head, I can at least stop dancing to it.
In the Grip
This is it right here: the hard part of change. It feels hard enough to get up every morning to follow Joe Dispenza's guided meditation and do the work of digging in to my unwanted emotions, but this is the real ordeal. After months of struggling to get some momentum...
SAMe for Depression
I don't want to sound like I've joyously found a wonder pill, but my chiropractor put me on S-Adenosyl methionine (SAMe) a few weeks ago and it's greatly changed my mood. Have you heard of SAMe (pronounced "sammy")? From the Web MD website: SAMe is a...
That WAS My Best
Catherine Shanahan's Deep Nutrition asserts that what our mothers ate even before they were pregnant with us affects how our bodies grow and our capacity for health. Likewise, the model for relationships that our caretakers provided when we were children affects how...
Fatter But Wiser
Being unmarried does NOT make you inferior. Yeah, I had to learn this. Previous post on weight & health: PLoosening the grip of food over me In April 2007 I left my spinster pad and moved in with my boyfriend, who would later become my husband. I...
Loosening the Grip of Food Over Me
Previous post on weight & health: Stranger Here: a memoir on weight loss surgery I'm still struggling to accept my new body, the one I've grown into since I stopped my lifelong punishment of starving and binge-ing. After years of forcing myself to stay a size...
Stranger Here: A memoir on Weight Loss Surgery
Previous post on weight & health: Someone asked me about being pregnant Jen Larsen gives a stunningly honest account of her weight loss through surgery in Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head. With a publication...