DebinAZ

That looks like an interesting book - I found it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Wasted-A-Memoir-Anorexia-Bulimia/dp/0060930934

OK, I'll hold off after this Chapter so you can catch up. Chapter 3 got me just a little scared so we'll need to hold hands if we decide to jump off this cliff together! What I learned in Chapter 3: Eat based on physical hunger only in order to get back in touch with natural hunger signals. Stop dieting. Stop restricting…

According to library policy, "materials are selected to serve the broad, general interest ranges" of their patrons. Banning these books is only being considered by a few libraries. Perhaps the patrons at those libraries are mostly children and teens so it doesn't make sense for those particular libraries to take up shelf…

Here is what I learned in Chapter Two: The Therapist Trap - • 50%-80% of body make up is genetic • The body has a predisposition to hold on to fat during famine in “feast or famine” evolution. Now body does not know whether to hold on to it due to famine or dieting. • Each body has a natural “set point” (how much food our…

Learned in Chapter One: Two major factors that lead people to reach for food when they are not physically hungry: 1. DEPRIVATION – If you are told you can’t have something (or eat something), then that is what you want. Dieters, or “restrictive eaters”, have lost touch with the internal hunger and fullness cues that are…

Actually, "Beyond a Shadow of a Diet" may be the better one to start with. I'm about 1/4 of the way through the other book and it is mostly letters written about recovery from eating disorders (but most are anorexia issues). It's interesting, but... I fall more in the Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder category - I'm…

Sorry for the delay in answering. I just saw your post. The steel cut oats cook in about 5 minutes (I get the Irish steel cut oats). I use an 86% dark chocolate square and break it up in the bottom of the bowl, then put the hot oatmeal over it, use about 1.5 tablespoons of the fruit spread, then I put a tablespoon of…

LOL! Got a good laugh from reading your post. :)

If you can't find that one, we can start with "Beyond a Shadow of a Diet" by Ellen Frankel. I started reading that last night. Very interesting.

Here's my new favorite: Steel cut oats with dark chocolate piece and raspberry/pomegranate natural fruit spread, and a tbsp of cream. Full of antioxidants.

Awesome! I recently moved so I'm making a new set of friends. I'll look for this kind of friend! :happy:

LOL!

Bizarre health instructor! Yikes. I don't think these people are helpful to someone who eats food that isn't healthy either. I think they should mind their own business unless they are asked. Otherwise, it's just really bad manners.

LOVE yoga. There are tons of free yoga videos at Namaste Yoga online here - http://blip.tv/namasteyoga.

Most "credit" does not exist, but it's a contract/promise to pay. Whether it's real or not, SOMEONE will be responsible for paying for that promise. If a promise is broken, then other people have to pick up the slack - whether it's paying other people's student loans through taxation or paying higher prices for clothes…

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OK, I've been researching. This article lists symptoms, signs, effects, and causes. I think this may be one of my causes: "Children who are exposed to frequent critical comments about their bodies and weight are also vulnerable, as are those who have been sexually abused in childhood." I began binge eating in my teen…

I have been trying really hard to figure this out. I tried this - every time I felt like eating something, I asked myself if I was hungry. 99% of the time I was NOT hungry so talked myself down off the cliff. I felt pretty good for about a week. It motivated me. Then I stopped asking myself, or i would ask myself, then say…

This sounded good, so I looked this up online and it shows 22g of sugar. ?? Here is the link: http://silkpurealmond.com/?gclid=CKnssb7qjaoCFSI55QodwG9K0A#a=3;r=1 If you click on Products, then Dark Chocolate, then Nutritional Information, it shows the details.

Every now and then I talk to myself like this, too. I'm not "young", but any age is the wrong age to be overweight / obese. We have to look in the mirror and tell ourselves the good things about ourselves. We are worth being healthy. :)

"breathing in and without thinking about it". I do this all day long, every day.

Yikes.

I have 75 pounds to lose (I've lost 3 in 10 days). We can check in with each other if you'd like. Deb in AZ

Rip off. I come from a family of union members - most were forced to be in the union. Unions were great when they first started many, many years ago. Because of them, we have a lot of laws on the books now that protect workers. They have outlived their usefulness. Now unions are just money-making machines that take union…

Glad you found out what a loser that guy is before you married him. :)

Looks like they are 90 calories - http://www.fiberone.com/product/bars-main.aspx. Can't have them because of sugar content, but they sound lovely.

My doctor said it was OK for me to do it. Guess it depends on the doctor. Being low carb is kind of a life or death issue for some of us who are teetering on the edge of diabetes.