Previous post on weight & health: Pants Two weeks into drastically reducing the sugary and starchy foods I eat, my pants fit better and my energy is good, but this past weekend my resolve took a dip and a big one. I have face blindness and no head at all for...
Previous post on weight & health: Touched my nose to my knee! I recently had some blood work done. On September 11th, my doctor told me my blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides were high. I do NOT want diabetes, heart disease or any of the other health...
These have been my favorite cookies for a long time. Only stores on the West Coast of the USA carry them. I can't get them in Chicago, but I grew up with them and try to bring some back whenever I'm out there. I've been known to blow through a whole package in no...
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...
From my favorite bakery ever: Central Continental Bakery in Mt. Prospect, Illinois USA. I have very specific tastes when it comes to cake and this bakery is the only one I've ever found that makes my personal ideal of what white buttercream frosting should taste...
Happy Fat Tuesday! I made cupcakes for work. How about you? Let us all have a day of indulgence and then lounge around like my dog. Here he is doing some dog yoga: Enjoy the day! Worry tomorrow.
Previous post on fatness. Disclaimer: since I've become properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and obsession with food and weight. It's sad to me now. Geneen Roth's Women Food and God isn't about GOD God, but about love and freedom from...
As my fixation on nutrition continues, I'm becoming more irritated by people talking about moderation. I might say that wheat gives me a stomach ache or that starches cause weight gain or that natural animal fats are actually good for us, and someone will respond with...
Photo of the last huge bowl of corn masa I'll ever eat. When you open a newspaper or find a new news website, what category is your favorite? What do you like to turn to first? Some say they're most interested in sports or world news or politics. You know what my...
The challenge: from 26 February to 4 March I'm cutting out all wheat and processed sweets. These foods give me stomach aches and keep me awake at night, so I've got to make a change. I think if I could just get a streak going and stop the sugar roller coaster, I might...
Yesterday Hostess filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. I suggest one of the following responses: "Thank goodness. If we can finally get rid of that junk food, so much the better." "Quick, go out and eat some Hostess snack cakes. It's for the good of the American economy!"...
Because I put on so much weight last spring that I couldn't fit into my professional clothes, I cut out wheat, grains, potatoes, pasta, sweets, processed foods, fruit and all beverages except for water (I'm lactose intolerant, so dairy was already out). Excitingly,...
Disclaimer: since I became properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and self-hatred and obsession with food and weight. It's sad. Since my last post I have managed to keep my weight constant, which I consider good enough. At least I won't...
Because we weren't conflating food with emotional fulfillment enough.
So I had a rough summer, a not-much-better trip to South America and came back feeling more depressed than ever. I ate a lot. By the end of September, I had begun to pull out of it. I got back to my healthy eating habits. I started to lose the weight I put on in the...