When I read the Bible this morning, 1 Corinthians 6:12 jumped out at me. Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. (ISV) Although the main … [Read more...]
French Kids and Food
What food rules do you follow? Not long ago, my daughter gave me French Kids Eat Everything, by Karen Le Billon, 2012. The book brought back … [Read more...]
Getting Too Hungry
How often do you get extremely hungry? During most restrictive diets I’ve been on, I allowed myself—while believing it was what I had to do—to go through days and nights and weeks of hunger. My stomach growled constantly, and … [Read more...]
On Intuitive Eating
The following post came from an entry in my personal journal dated April 3, 2009, the day after I gave up dieting. … [Read more...]
Fat Talk
Last week when I had dinner with my twenty-nine year-old niece and her friend, we compared notes about the “fat talk” phenomena that continues to pop up despite increased awareness of how it belittles us. “You look great! Have you lost weight?” My … [Read more...]