Thoughts on Disordered Eating
What I’m about to write is no doubt going to be somewhat controversial. Which is why, of course, I’m hesitant to write it. But, frankly, I think it’s something that needs to be… Read More
Category Archive: Food Addiction
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Comparing Apples to Bacon, or When Healthy Lifestyles Become “Diets”
Calories in/out rant ahead. Be prepared.* Good morning, friends! And Merry Belated Christmas! I’m sorry that I haven’t been by the blog in a week…I can only hope that you haven’t either–after all,… Read More
A Day “Without” Calories
I learned, this summer, that by eating the right things and moving as much as I needed to for recovery, I have actually become healthier than I was when I was preaching “health”… Read More
A Day in the Life of Calories In < Calories Out
A typical day of “calories in < calories out:” Wake up at 4:30 am after about 5-6 hours of sleep. Raises my ghrelin (the hunger stimulating hormone) and lowers my leptin (the satiety… Read More
The Math of Mealtime
If you have ever been on a diet, every started a new fitness regimen, done your first “couch to 5K” or started restricting one or more food groups for the sake of getting… Read More
The Incredible, Edible…Calorie? (Trigger Warning)
Believe it or not, before 1918, people lived without calorie counters. Yes, folks, you heard me: before the end of the first World War, it was possible to eat a sandwich without entering… Read More
“But You Still Have To Go To The Gym”
This commercial makes me so angry–it embodies pretty much everything that’s wrong with the state of fitness and nutrition in our country today. There are so many things wrong with commercial that it’s… Read More
The “C” Word
I have added a new “bad” word to my vocabulary. Forget the f-word, forget the four-letter c-word: this is a 7-letter c-word, and it’s the most heinous, stupid, useless wastes of breath I… Read More
Dirty Secrets From Eating Clean: Food Addiction and the Leptin Connection
I wrote last time about how limiting calories can change the chemicals in your brain–how my dopamine highs from under-consuming calories and my endorphin highs from over-exercising had become inescapable addictions. But there… Read More
Dirty Secrets from Eating Clean: Food Addiction, Part III
To read the whole series in order, start here: Dirty Secrets From Eating Clean: Food Addiction, Part I Dirty Secrets From Eating Clean: Food Addiction, Part II I love this: Just as I… Read More
