au·dac·i·ty (ôˈdasədē) |noun | a willingness to take bold risks My relapse is over. As I wrote about in Jan 30 | How the Souplantation and Marvin Gaye Turned Me Into a Jedi, I made …
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Jan 31 | The War Is Over and I Lost.
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Jan 12 | Is it Groupon … or is it The Universe??
“This is Your Year!” – seemingly every single Groupon email subject line lately For some reason Groupon keeps sending me emails with the subject line, “This Is Your Year!” I can’t help but think …
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Jan 6 | What’s Eating You?
“These feelings would go good with pie.” – Cameron on Modern Family We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s not what you’re eating; it’s what’s eating you.” With regard to my recent binge, Day 1 | …
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Jan 5 | This isn’t ‘Nam. Sometimes You Have to Leave One Behind.
“Yes, you’re right. It’s part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.” ― Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists Let’s talk about Fosters Freeze. For those of you unfamiliar with …
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Jan 4 | Dieting Is Making Me Fat.
Calories (noun): Tiny creatures that live in your closet and sew your pants a little tighter every night Yesterday I told you I binged on New Year’s Eve. As I wrote about in Day 28 …
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Jan 3 | I Had a Relapse.
“Fall down seven times, get up eight.” – Japanese proverb I binged. It was New Year’s Eve and I was at a party. I looked good: my recent 30 days of abstinence (the food equivalent …
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Jan 2 | The War Is Over and I Lost.
“We believe that the action of alcohol on these alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy … a ‘phenomenon of craving’” – paraphrased from “The Doctor’s Opinion” in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous I …
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When You Eat Because You Can’t Not Eat
“Eating against one’s will” – my own personal definition of ‘powerlessness’ Today is my Day 30. I have not binged for one full month. My last binge. It was Friday, November 30. I went home …
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Fat Girl, Part 2: Beauty Adjacent
“No beauty for you!” – The Universe to me as a child (As a reminder, “Fat Girl” is a series of blogs. Click here to read Part 1.) Until I joined CEA-HOW in 2004 at …
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The Alien Invasion
“What is a binge?” I’m sure there’s a clinical, medically approved definition out there – of which I’m too lazy to Google – but here’s my definition: A binge is an alien invasion. An alien invasion …
