Diets Teach Us to Ignore Our Intuition
Discovering Balance Part 9 I stopped dieting and gained weight. It turns out the only way I could keep the weight off was to live obsessively. And as I’ve stated before, my body decided where it was going to stop…
Dieting Makes Promises it Can’t Keep
Discovering Balance Series Part 8 I attempted to implement the principles of Intuitive Eating right away, but it was not easy. My biggest fear was weight gain. For almost my whole life I was told that I was too big.…
Our Body Size is Not Within Our Control
Discovering Balance Series Part 7 * Orthorexia research led me to an article on Health at Every Size and to a research paper by Linda Bacon, “Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift.” The entire article provides conflicting…
I Thought I Was Being “Healthy”
Discovering Balance Series Part 6 A life changing moment came in March, 2017 when my husband was diagnosed with kidney cancer. In an instant, everything that mattered before had no significance. Weight loss was inconsequential when all focus needed to…
Roasted Corn and Brussels Sprout Succotash
If you’re looking to up your side-dish game, look no further than this! Roasted Corn and Brussels Sprout Succotash is great alongside chicken, beef, pork, or fish – or as a main dish on it’s own! I think you’re going…
A Life Spent Obsessing is Not a Life
Discovering Balance Series Part 5 of 10 Day after day of living and breathing every minute with weight loss on your mind and having nothing to show for it, is devastating. Nothing I was doing seemed to be working. I…
I Was Obsessed With Food and Exercise
Discovering Balance Series Part 4 Everyone loves a good before and after photo. I always thought they were so inspirational. But my “after” was far away and I couldn’t celebrate this new life until I reached my goal. Until then,…
Praise for Weight Loss
Discovering Balance Series – Part 3 Suddenly, weight loss became my ONLY motivation. According to the BMI scale, I still hadn’t reached my “goal weight”. But up to that point everything I was doing had worked. I had changed my…
A Lifestyle Change
Discovering Balance Part 2 My entire adult life I’d been fat so I was resigned that always would be. Sure, I dreamed of waking up one day in a smaller body, but magically that hadn’t happened. I would try here…
Not Good Enough
Discovering Balance Series, Part 1 Growing up, I lived in a straight-sized body, confident and active. But at the beginning of my senior year of HS, I began to gain weight pretty rapidly which continued throughout college and into my…
A celebration of food and joyful movement
