So, I haven't managed to do a food diary yet. Obviously. Blech. I really should. I just keep feeling like I have to report a good, sane, healthy day, or not report at all. Unhelpful thinking, there.

What I am having trouble with lately:
- figuring out hungry and full. I feel like I was doing better at this and now am having more trouble. I seem to ( Read more... )

It takes a lot of levels in self-loathing to hate yourself because you feel like you're hating yourself wrong. Heh.

Thinking about that reminded me of a passage from Bird by Bird:
[A friend] read me some lines by a Lakota Sioux: "Sometimes I go about pitying myself. And all the while I am being carried on great winds across the sky." That is so ( Read more... )

I went to a little Russian grocery store today! I got hazelnut cookies, kefir, and a jar of something that I'm pretty sure is pickled garlic, but I can't say 100% until I eat some, since the label is not in English. I sure hope I guessed right. I looooooove pickled garlic.

( Monday Monday )

Woke up at quarter to 5, which is early even for me these days, to drive my dad to the airport. Came home and went right back to sleep. Lazy Ellie is lazy ( Read more... )

Super-scalable Clafouti Recipe (borrowed from Mark's Daily Apple- start with the amount of eggs you want to eat ( Read more... )

This is kinda wordy and wanky. Oh well! That's my specialty!

I don't have much of a plan for this whole Normal Eating thing. I've been reading some of Ellyn Satter's writings on "competent eating" and I like a lot of her thoughts. I'm going to try eating on a set schedule -- with what Michelle at The Fat Nutritionist calls "eating appointments," ( Read more... )