Anorexia and Obsessive Exercise

Anorexia and Obsessive Exercise

This is another section of Love Fat that didn’t make the cut. This section describes the mental anguish that I was in when my eating disorder was pushing me to exercise for a minimum of six hours every day. In the book, I have just come back from another run:...
Love Fat Editouts: Breastfeeding and Santa Claus

Love Fat Editouts: Breastfeeding and Santa Claus

This part I took out of Love Fat because, quite frankly, I had written so much about breastfeeding already that I thought any more would boarder on creepy. Love Fat is about fat and why we should love it, and my reasoning behind including breastfeeding conversation...
Holy Crap I Made a Book!

Holy Crap I Made a Book!

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Question: Does the Urge to Binge Ever Stop?

Question: Does the Urge to Binge Ever Stop?

I was asked a really good and relevant question by a reader this week. In response to the blog post that I wrote a while ago on the bloated fat tummy syndrome that a person in recovery from anorexia suffers, she wondered if the urge to binge eat during recovery ever...
Fat Definition, Word Origin, and Nutritional History

Fat Definition, Word Origin, and Nutritional History

I have a simmering obsession with word origins. I also write about fat a lot, so it would be rude of me not to look into the word and where it came from.  After that, we’ll look into its rise and fall in popularity. Fat: Word Origin and Use In Old English fætt...
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