Tag Archive: healthy-living

Finding Freedom at Paleo F(X) 2013

Disclaimer: I wrote this post on the airplane home, coming down off of the adrenaline rush of spending some of the best four days of my life with incredible people and after not… 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

Dirty Secrets from Eating Clean: Food Addiction, Part I

A quick disclaimer before we get into the (lean) meat and (sweet) potatoes of today’s post: I have nothing against Tosca Reno or Kennedy Publishing or the fitness industry in general. In fact,… Read More

Acne and ED, Interlude: You Are What You Don’t Eat

 If you want to read the whole series in order, start here:  Acne and ED, Part I: How Vegan Began Acne and ED, Part II: The Never Ending Detox Acne and ED, Part… Read More

Arguing Semantics With Myself: What Shape Did You Mean?

There’s something I’ve been struggling with lately–struggling to live with and struggling to put into words.   It wasn’t until I started reading Caroline Knapp’s Appetite: Why Women Want that I started to… Read More

The Vegan Card

As you’ve probably figured out by now, I was pretty committed to my relationship ED.* And I’ve also learned the hard way that ED doesn’t take kindly to cheating.** When I first began… Read More

“Vegan” Means “Alien” in the Omnivore’s Tongue

As per ED Has Two Mommies: It’s amazing how an ED can thrive on social pressure. Even under the guise of change and growth, an ED can wriggle its way underneath even your… Read More

Comparing to Apples to Apples: A Rant

Okay, I know I haven’t even gotten to the point in my story where I finally give up my stance on nutrition, but yesterday’s headlines call for a little context-jumping (and a whole… Read More

Some Like It Hot

After a week of crazy hospital visits and surgical interruptions, I’m sure you have quite forgotten where we were with our story. And so, a brief recap: August hit, my ankle remained a… Read More

We Interrupt This Program…

…for a couple of random updates and thoughts: – First and foremost, the surgical procedure was short and simple, and now my ankle has no choice but to heal. The doctor put me… Read More

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