Side note: Thank you all for the comments in my previous post. It was a hard post for me to write, and some comments were hard for me to read, but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate eac...
I picked a great time to “go on a diet.” I ovulated this week, meaning I’m about to start feeling PMS symptoms in a little less than a week. That means the food cravings are going t...
So the wonderful Roxy has nominated me for a Reader Appreciation Award! I love Roxy and her blog because she is fighting hard in her recovery from an eating disorder. I admire her tenacity and the st...
I have gained two pounds over the weekend. Needless to say, given that and the emotions brought on by the family get together, I am determined to break maintenance and meet my goal weight. I have tri...
We are in body image and are asked to pick partners. Today we are going to get life-size pieces of paper and are going to draw what we think we look like. Jennifer, the girl who steals food, complain...
I went to a family BBQ yesterday, and these family functions never fail to make me feel jealous, competitive, or irritated. Not to say that I don’t have a fabulous time once my family and I all...
If I were to write an anti-anorexia blog post, it would go a little something like this: So, you want anorexia? Well listen up, because we just so happen to have a packaged deal here, and that packag...
So, how about them Bears? Usually said when someone wants to avoid a particularly awkward situation. In my case, the embarrassing fact that I have figured out why my arm suddenly became sore. Now, be...
First and foremost, thank you guys SO much for the outpouring of support I got for my last two entries. I’m sorry to worry everyone; I sort of feel like I was being melodramatic! Again, when I ...
After work my left arm started feeling weird. There’s no way to really describe what it felt like; it was very mild and if I didn’t think about it, then it was almost as if nothing was wr...
I’ve totally and utterly put myself in a pickle. Despite my chest pains subsiding over the weekend, they’ve returned, sporadically, throughout this week. I’ve been waking up on and ...
Weigh days are always Tuesdays. Every Tuesday morning, before the sun comes up, a nurse knocks on our door and gives each of us a paper-thin gown. We must take everything off except our underwear and...
So I figure this blog is old enough to start a new series called “THIS TIME THEN.” A retrospective look at where I was this time previous years back. Given this blog has transitioned from...
We are all in the day room, sitting and waiting for Body Image group to begin. Sue, the counselor who runs the group, sits down. She’s a little on the bigger side. She says she’s in recov...
The following entry is for newcomers to this blog or people who are not in the eating disorder community and find their way here: I want to clarify something I wrote in my last entry. I stated someth...
To take a break from Adventures in Treatment, I bring to you an update on how my weekend is going: Thursday was my four year wedding anniversary with my husband, and we decided to go to dinner on Sat...
2006: It’s 9:45 at night; tea time. We are “required” to go into the dining room to put closure on our day. We are given the optional choice of having hot tea, hot cocoa, decaf coff...
I wish this blog had a twitter like function so I could post random thoughts and blurbs instead of writing an entry. Yes, I know I have a twitter, but I never use it. Anyway — every time I get ...
Last weekend I reported feeling some minor chest pains throughout the weekend and attributed it to heartburn because it was accompanied by gas and bloating. Well, it’s been almost a week now an...
So as promised, I will start a series of entries related to my experiences in inpatient treatment. Some will be more interesting than others, for sure, but inpatient was definitely an experience I wi...
In 2006, with the encouragement of a counselor, I enrolled myself into an outpatient treatment center for my eating disorder. I can’t say I regret this decision, but looking back on the entire ...
Growing up I was one of the biggest goody-goodies you would have ever met. I was firmly against anything that was “bad,” vowing never to drink alcohol, do drugs, smoke, have sex (until ma...
I suppose when someone types in “recovering anorexic” or “anorexia recovery” or “recovery from anorexia,” they are looking for beacons of hope. Maybe it’s a ...
They say addiction and other mental illnesses are hereditary. I think back to my family and wonder if any of my family members had an eating disorder. My mom’s side of the family is Hawaiian, s...
My greatest fear with my eating disorder is that I will morph into a compulsive overeater. This weekend has been nothing less than horrible in terms of food and I am afraid it will continue into the ...
Between normal moments my eating disorder sneaks in and out; first thing in the morning when I am finally left alone, I weigh. No change, and I am discouraged. I make my safe breakfast and as soon as...
Let me start off this post by saying it could be worse. We could be forced to go bankrupt, we could be living in a dangerous neighborhood, we could be losing our home, we could be unable to eat. But ...
Reblogged from HealthProducts2 Blog: Anorexia Definition Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder where weight loss becomes an obsession and starvation begins to affect thinking patterns and personalit...
EDIT: I didn’t want to have to put something like this because I hoped most of us could be adults and understand that an entry titled “Weight Range and Rituals” could be triggering....
So I figured I would go all out and do a piece on eating disorders in popular television since I already did movies and reality shows. There have been many TV shows that have dedicated one or two pie...
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