It is day six since I gave up Diet Coke (BTW, that post drew a record number of comments here!). I’ve been drinking iced tea, so I haven’t wound up with a major caffeine headache.
Anyways, so far so good. The jury is still out, as this habit is one that’s proven tough to stick with […]

Wow…I’m reading the archives of the Health At Every Size blog, and came across an item talking about orthorexia nervosa:

It’s great to eat healthy food, and most of us could benefit by paying a little more attention to what we eat. However, some people have the opposite problem: they take the concept of healthy eating […]

Geez, four posts in one day! That’s gotta be a record for me. But I just finished reading The Hungry Years and wanted to blog this passage:

I don’t think there’s any real answer to the obesity crisis. Getting fat–it’s in the system. In a way, it is the system. I heard an item on the […]

Regina Wilshire recently reviewed a JAMA study (published a year ago) that compared the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone diets.
The study authors summarized their study conclusions this way (emphasis mine):

Each popular diet modestly reduced body weight and several cardiac risk factors at 1 year. Overall dietary adherence rates were low, although increased […]

The Diet Cure arrived from Amazon yesterday, and I started skimming this afternoon. What I read was really very interesting, so I’m going to experiment with its recommendations and report back later this week.
In the meantime, I’ve been holding on to a couple of snippets related to comfort that I thought worth logging here. Now, […]

You may have guessed it, but I’ve been a bit quiet because I’ve been struggling. And heaven forbid I should come clean and admit that I’m not so perfect.
Boy, travel really screws me up every time. My Thanksgiving wasn’t a horror, but I did indulge. And driving home on Saturday, I decided, what the […]

So, as I mentioned, I had my last therapy session last week. While there, I mentioned that I was interested in coming up with a flow chart of sorts to try and account for the different places people are with their weight loss or compulsive overeating.
For example, so far I see the questions being […]

Deepak Chopra has a great post about the spiritual Catch-22 in our lives, and how it relates to addictions and compulsions. More importantly, he also provides a very interesting nugget (see emphasis below) that suggests one possible way out:

The basic question is how to escape the paradox that resisting fear (or evil or neurosis) only […]

I mentioned yesterday that I’ve been reading Chris Lawford’s tale of addiction (Symptoms of Withdrawal) rather than the book Oprah picked for her book club, James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces.
I actually bought the latter, but put it down after reading the first page. I may get back to it eventually, since I […]