Comments | bethr: One Pair of Shoes, One Flavor of Ice Cream, One Article on Compulsive Eating

bethr

One Pair of Shoes, One Flavor of Ice Cream, One Article on Compulsive Eating

May 11, 2009 09:13

* This pair of clogs(or any on the page, frankly)

* Found this ice cream at the local liquor store (where i was buying ginger ale); have eaten two pints in a week.

* Which brings us to this article about compulsive eating, which, frankly, explains why, although I'm essentially 30 lbs. down, the next 20 will be awfully hard to shed. Unless ( Read more... )

dansko clogs, food, acquisitiveness, food issues

Comments 5

chanaleh May 11 2009, 16:30:51 UTC

OMG on all of these.

skogkatt May 11 2009, 17:47:28 UTC

I love that ice cream, but my grocery store seems to have stopped carrying it. Not that I need to be eating more ice cream... And yeah, that article rings pretty true.

davidfcooper May 11 2009, 20:22:32 UTC

Clogs: They suit you, but that's not news.

Ice cream: Looks sophisticated, intriguing, & forbidden vis a vis my medical condition & need to avoid salt.

Article: Change begins with self-awareness, and you already have that.

isee4dimensions May 11 2009, 20:48:42 UTC

Change. Ah, change.
Things change, and difficult as it may be, you will get there and I will be very proud of your continued hard work.

chocorua May 12 2009, 01:22:56 UTC

I've only lived with compulsive eating, not lived it, but the article seems well-founded. One question seems to be "How can one shift perspective so the voids being filled by eating don't loom so large?"