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Diet: A Dirty Four-Letter Word
Image credit: lifedynamix.comThere are many words in the English language that I don’t like. Topping the list is the word “diet.” In its truest form, “diet” simply refers to what we eat. From the...
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Disordered Eating: It’s Not Just a “She” Thing …
How's that for a morning jolt?!How many males do you know that suffer from body image issues or body dysmorphia? How many guys do you know are “on a diet?” My guess (before today) is … not many. Your...
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Cool, Calm & Collected
Sometimes it just takes a nudge to get us moving again towards a goal. I remember that feeling of being paralyzed about mid-way through my senior year of college. I didn’t have a job lined up for after...
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“… But I Don’t Wanna…!“
How I'm feeling ...Giving more thought to yesterday’s all-over-the-place post, I’m realizing what it comes down to is this: I hate the thought of “dieting” to lose weight. To quote my two-year old...
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Girls and Dieting, Then and Now
When two people share the same article with you and offer it as a topic for your blog, as a blogger, you take it and run with it. This Wall Street Journal article, Girls and Dieting, Then and Now, came...
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Hi, My Name is Pseudo-Sally, in Recovery
Friends and family alike have always teased me about being a picky eater. Long before my disordered eating issues began, I was a picky eater, often related to my body’s intolerance to certain foods (I...
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When a Double Standard is Debatable
This is my latest post over at WeAretheRealDeal.com. I haven’t been blogging much here or there … but saw this article and wanted to address it. You can read it here or after the jump. What is it about...
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How Young is “Too Young” to Diet?
I have always thought actress Ginnifer Goodwin was adorable … but I was a little surprised to find out she’d been on Weight Watchers since she was 9 years old — mostly because I didn’t realize you...
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The Littlest Firecracker
Happy Fourth of July! I can’t believe how bad I’ve been about 1) blogging and 2) holding to my own “commitments.” Despite my best efforts, I discovered that AM workouts are not going to happen at this...
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Willpower, Wantpower … Call it whatever; I don’t have any!
I plain out admitted to a friend last week that I don’t have the willpower OR the “wantpower” to actually lose weight. I later shared the sentiment with my Weight Watchers chat friends … and hearing...
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The Trap
Facebook’s news ticker can be a distraction at times, but then there are days like today when a friend comments on a post or article and I click over and read it … and am truly blown away. It was...
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A Decade of Dieting
In spite of never being particularly thin, I never dieted a day in my life until I was 24 years old. On April 13, 2004 I made the fast and furious decision to follow my mom’s lead and join Weight...
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Walking the fine line
When you’re someone who has publicly struggled with her weight and a disordered eating past, people close to you — and even those not-so-close — tend to scrutinize you when they think you might be,...
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