Take that, Points.
If there’s anything more delicious than iced coffee, I don’t know what it could be. But it’ll be a miracle if I sleep at all for the next three days.
I went out to dinner with my sister last night and we talked about the Weight Watchery. She said she basically just felt really out of control about how she was eating and wanted structure; she talked about binging, about secret eating, about all those deprivation-driven behaviors I know so well.
Oh, I hooked her up. She left my house with four books about emotional eating and body acceptance and learning to eat intuitively. I gave her the lowdown on how diets like WW can teach you how to ignore your hunger and satiety cues, and that until you get in touch with those, food is always gonna be more complicated than it needs to be.
She seemed really receptive and eager to look at the books. I just love her so very much and think she’s beautiful, and damn it, she should get to think she’s beautiful, too.
I’m taking a road trip this weekend to visit my husband while he’s on a special assignment (because I am a sucker for staying in hotels), so I won’t be around until probably Tuesday.
Have a great weekend! And drink lots of iced coffee because it’s fantastic!
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Can you recommend some of those books? Because I could use a hook-up too. Enjoy the iced coffee, the hotel, the husband… sounds like a dream weekend to me!
Me too, me too. I could use all the help I can get. I’m new to the intuitive eating thing and I’m afeared I don’t get it quite yet.
Sorry to steal the show, but I’d like to chime in in favor of When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies by Carol Munter and Jane Hircshmann…. it gets a little bit too touchy-feely self helpish at a few points, but overall it is amazing because it deals with body image issues and food habits at the same time and ultimately advocates good mental health and liking yourself and eating the right things for the right reasons. It is a book about intuitive eating and getting out of the diet/binge cycle. I didn’t even think I was in that cycle because neither extreme was super drastic, but I realized I was so deep in it that I couldn’t even see it because it is really a very normal (but still so non-emotionally healthy!) way to be as a woman in this society so this book appealed to me a lot.
I’m chiming in on being curious about those titles. Love your stuff - I got here from Pretty Pear and Colleen’s so right about you, what with the rockin’ and all.
I LUV iced coffee! I even drink it in the winter, because it’s just so much more yummy than all other coffee.
Have fun with your husband this weekend!
oh, I love iced coffee. and I need to check out this reading list!
I hope you had a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
xoxo
I too love iced coffee, and am chiming in for the reading list!
I’d love to hear your throw-down of WW too.
You “hooked her up” lol.
You “hooked her up” lol. That’s a good thing, I just thought your turn of phrase was funny. Made me think of drug dealers.
The reading list! First, Emo pegged my favorite of the four: “When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies” by Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann, and I also enjoy “Overcoming Overeating” by them as well. And I also gave her two Geneen Roth books, “Breaking Free from Emotional Eating,” and “When You Eat At The Refrigerator, Pull Up A Chair.”
I tried not to load her up with any of my more, well, horrible eating-disorder-focused books; the above four are pretty relatable.
But if you’re just going to read one, go for :When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies.” That book flipped my world upside down; without it, I wouldn’t have made it a week without falling back into my habits.
Great reading list. I started “When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies” a while back, but put it down. Now that I’m feeling some hatred, I definitely think it’s time to pick it back up.