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Should I eat the cookie?
A flowchart to encourage you to be a competent eater (rather than someone who just eliminates foods) who can trust your body’s internal cues.
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The most grateful I’ve ever felt for recovery.
This last 9 months has been the most grateful I’ve ever been for freedom from obsessive thoughts about food and my body. I’ve been able to experience all of pregnancy without numbing away from my body...
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Postpartum so far.
Now that I’m 3 weeks into the 4th trimester of pregnancy (aka postpartum) I thought I’d share a bit about how things have been going so far. Nursing I was nervous about how nursing would go and my...
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You don’t need your eating disorder.
In the recovery process I came across the term “alexithymia,” aka the inability to identify and describe emotions in the self. Many with eating disorders can have a bit of alexithymia, which makes it...
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good foods, bad foods and eating cookies at breakfast.
Saturday morning I had this perfectly satisfying breakfast that I thought was worth posting about. It was a plate of cheesy eggs, a thick peanut butter cookie the size of my palm (cookie recipe coming...
View ArticleMy takeaway from eating disorder recovery.
At the moment, my biggest takeaway from eating disorder/disordered eating recovery is knowing now that I can handle hard things. Knowing I can tolerate discomfort without having to change anything or...
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Takeaways from stopping exercising.
If you are stuck in an unhealthy relationship with exercise, I wish I could give you a taste of what it feels like to not have to exercise everyday. I know what it feels like to wake up and have an...
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On overeating.
This past weekend Andrew’s parents took us out to Perry’s Steakhouse to celebrate Andrew’s birthday. My parents were watching Jojo and this was the first time someone else was putting her down for her...
View Articleearthly tent.
I came up with so many reasons not to share God-centered content. And here I am anyways. For the last 2 years I’ve had this urging to start posting about what the bible has told me about our...
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Making (and eating) baked goods every week.
If it’s a week I have it together enough to meal and snack plan, I love planning a baked good to make for snack times. Baking something each week sets me up to have a satisfying snack on hand, which...
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On seeing a photo of yourself and not liking how you look.
All the photos I used in this post are ones that caused some judgement to pop up in my head when I saw them. One of the biggest aha moments I had when getting away from disordered eating was that...
View ArticleFavorite part of you.
This is a post I’ve been mulling over for a long time too. Last week I talked about how I believe that you (and me) deserve to have a positive opinion of yourself that does not change when you see a...
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How Andrew helped me in eating disorder recovery.
Andrew and I both grew up like every American child does, instilled with a sense to conform to unrealistic body ideals. For me that meant becoming smaller and for him that meant becoming more...
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When someone tells you, you look good after you were sick.
Last week was my birthday, so I decided to try out a float tank for the first time. I first heard about float tanks when I was on a residential eating disorder treatment facility tour and was...
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On eating cookie dough until you feel sick.
There used to always be a negative tension when I’d bake cookies. It’d go something like this… I knew I was going to want to eat the cookie dough, but I’d fight that craving. Then I’d end up eating it...
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food rule challenge: pizza.
If you are someone who struggles with a food rule involving pizza, this post is for you. If you have a food rule that says you are only allowed to eat x pieces of pizza whenever you eat pizza. Here’s...
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Food rule challenge: Having something sweet to end the meal.
After I posted a pizza food rule challenge a couple weeks ago, I got a few requests to post more food rule challenges. I thought it was a great idea, so here we go! The next challenge I wanted to...
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How do you treat something you appreciate vs. something you hate.
Packing up all of our things in preparation for our move has made me think about how I treat things I appreciate vs. how I treat things I’m ready to pass along to Goodwill. The things I appreciate I...
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