I've added a new link to my blogroll - Debra's Just Maintaining.  This is the blog of a woman who is writing about her experiences with maintaining weight loss, and how it's nothing like what the diet-industrial complex tells you.  It's hard.  It's a part time job, even.

She's also supportive of HAES and Fat Acceptance, though obviously, she is ( Read more... )

I need to get back to my gluten-free diet; the insomnia is getting bad.  It might help with my hair, too (though I still intend to do terrible things to it like go blonde.  Hee!  Fun with hair!).  Yes, it tends to make me lose weight and stabilize at the lower end of my weight range, but that's the last thing on my mind.  I'm feeling good about ( Read more... )

Today is a soup and fruit day - one of the sort of days where I don't want anything except liquids in food form.

( A rutabaga by any other name would be a mangelwurzle... )

Weight Watchers is still using their delightful little bete orange, Hungry, in their ads, and I am happy.

( Fuzzy and generous! )

I meant to go into work today, but at 5am, the car was frozen under snow, and I just gave up.

Yeah, that's been my week so far.  Bleah.  On the other hand, I just had a lunch of a Lean Cuisine Santa Fe Rice and Beans, mixed with generous amounts of Tabasco and proper sour cream (not low fat sour cream - why bother?), and it was pretty darn tasty, so ( Read more... )

(I just want to note that this is not a "hatin' on the skinny chicks" post.  I think women are wonderful, no matter what their size.)

I do like summer - summer comes with butterflies, fun animals, evenings outside, and wildflowers.  Even the weather has been particularly good so far this summer (I'm usually hugging the air conditioner like a ( Read more... )

I am a package and tins user when it comes to cooking, I admit it. One of the main reasons is that we're usually busy and/or not hungry at the same time (that would be me - I have days when I don't want to eat dinner), and so fresh food tends to go bad if I'm not careful. So, most of our veggies are frozen (very few veggies survive the commercial ( Read more... )

I am a huge fan of Kate Harding's Shapely Prose (have I added it to my links list yet? Well, I'm going to), and I heartily endorse her blog for anyone struggling with loving acceptance of their bodies. I usually read it to keep up on size issues, but occasionally the comments are pure comedy gold:

( yo-ho-ho and a bottle of ranch dressing... )

Oops, lost a couple of people off my friends' list with that last post. :)

On the other hand, I love how polite everyone is in the discussions, and I do appreciate it. Yesterday's post was pretty much off the cuff, based on some reading I've been doing lately, which in turn was triggered by my experience with the Lyrica.

( Oh, look, more diet rambling. )

*Bliss*

I'm not hungry.

For the first time in three months, I'm not hungry. It is the best feeling ever.

I'm serious - you know how when you've been out hiking all day in the cold, and you come back indoors, and you think you're really hungry for a good dinner, and then you smell the really awesome stew that's cooking on the stove, and suddenly you ( Read more... )