Category Archives: Eating and Addiction

getting back on track

August 30, 2010 – 7:23 pm

I’ve done a miserable job with the lap-band this summer. I’ve justified my behavior with the stress of dealing with my parents and my surgery. Maybe I should just look back on it as a band vacation. It’s odd that I struggle to swallow the things that are good for me and the bad things [...]

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the plan, again

June 15, 2010 – 7:41 pm

I haven’t written about the lap-band and eating issues in a long time. That’s because my eating has absolutely sucked. No matter how I rationalize and even though I understand that I’m using food to try and cope with stress, it doesn’t change how much my eating has sucked. I’ve been bouncing up and down [...]

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the two state mind theory

March 31, 2010 – 6:34 pm

I meant to write about this days ago – honestly, the energy is just sucked out of me lately. Or so it seems to me at any rate. It seems that people around the net are writing about things that I need to hear. Steve Aitchison wrote about being fat and the “Two State Mind [...]

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what I’ve learned

March 25, 2010 – 5:40 pm

When I started this series on eating and addiction, I wasn’t intending to just be pedantic. Looking back, I feel it’s wordy and too stodgy. But, it’s still intended to be a way for me to seriously and intimately explore my eating behaviors, my relationship with food, with regard to how it does or does [...]

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ah that mindful stuff again

March 24, 2010 – 7:29 pm

A timely guest post came up today at Zen Habits, The Art of Mindful Eating. It’s written by a food blogger that I mean to follow, her approach to cooking looks interesting, Jules Clancy of Stone Soup. I may have to bug one of my Aussie friends to buy and send me a copy of [...]

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riding it out

March 10, 2010 – 7:12 pm

This post is out of sequence but it’s what I’ve been thinking about lately and I’m inserting it here between abuse and dependency because it has a lot to do with my old friend, rationalization. One of the things we talked about at support group this week was dealing with cravings and getting back “on [...]

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when it’s really, really a problem

March 6, 2010 – 7:39 pm

When last we spoke we were focusing on what I decided to call “normal excess.” It can be really hard, especially from inside the problem, to really differentiate what is “normal” versus what is a problem behavior. There comes a time, however, that the problem behavior is clear and when you look at it honestly, [...]

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hello…. is it me you’re looking for?

March 3, 2010 – 10:32 am

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld I’m sorry, I know it’s been a long time since I’ve really written anything. Life has felt really busy around here – though in many ways it hasn’t been that much more [...]

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February 6, 2010 – 2:35 pm

In my food and addiction series, I’m trying to examine, consider and write about the issues in a more or less pragmatic manner. But things come up. While I’m trying to understand and really take a close look at how compulsive eating mirrors addiction (at the least) I am also living it. I am in [...]

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normal excess versus food abuse

January 23, 2010 – 2:41 pm

This has been a difficult topic. There seems to be a clear, yet ill defined gray area between what is normal and what is abuse. You could, back to our alcohol example, characterize any over-use of alcohol as abusive drinking and some people would do so. I see a subsection of over-use as essentially normal [...]

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