over-eating

Suck it up princess!

September 19, 2012

In my last post I talked about the fact that I had to ‘ground’ my inner teenager who spent the weekend considering all sorts of unhealthy food options. I have to say, the arc of my weekend thought processes – mentioned in that post – intrigued me. My reaction to being in my hometown and [...]

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Still learning

August 11, 2012

It may not surprise you – given the tenor of my recent posts – that I overindulged in my binge / trigger foods last night. I did a quick shop after work (as my mother is coming to town today and I figured an empty fridge would be a bad look. Plus I’m 44 friggin’ [...]

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30 day challenge update

June 17, 2012

You will most certainly recall (?!) that I decided to embark on a 30 day challenge for the month of June. I took a leaf out of Matt Cutts’ book, who had in turn taken a leaf out of Morgan Spurlock’s book (sort of), deciding that I would try to do (or not do) something [...]

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The roadmap to a new & improved me

March 22, 2012

I mentioned that I had some homework from my therapist which I have diligently been progressing since my last appointment. Although not really. In fact, I think I was supposed to add to the table we started – however, you can see from the image below, that my black ink (post-appointment) contributions are somewhat limited. [...]

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My mad monkey mind

March 2, 2012

As you hopefully know, I ventured into a psychologist / dietician’s office this week. Happily the therapist in question also mentioned that after 20+ years in practice, she’s also doing a PhD in something to do with obesity and… ummm… can’t remember… mental stuff. You know… that mind/body shit I’m always going on about, which [...]

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Happy Food

February 15, 2012

If I was the sort of gal to partake in magazine questionnaires I’d be ticking boxes confessing to being an emotional eater. “Yes,” I’d say. “I eat when happy, sad, depressed etc etc.” And I often write about my over-eating, binge eating and emotional eating habits. I talk about the fact that I’m prone to turn [...]