Here’s a fun story: someone somewhere recently mentioned that Fitness magazine was doing one of those “best blog ever!” award things (you know the ones I mean, where they–or someone–nominate the same blogs over and over again and drive traffic to their website by getting people to vote on their favorites) that it seems like …
Last week, while still in the grips of a very bad few days, I did something I hadn’t done for about two years: I pulled out the scale and weighed myself. I don’t know why I did it. I knew at the time that it was a bad idea, and I hadn’t had too much …
As I write this, I’m trying to sit through the very uncomfortable feeling of fullness that accompanies eating. Just trying to process the discomfort–which, in my case, is both physical and emotional–makes me realize that it’s not only been a while since I’ve tried to sit with these feelings, but it’s also been a while since …
For a long time, my mom and I have had this joke about a website we want to create. It would be called Doctor Commonsense, and would consist of really straightforward “problems” that the good doctor would solve. An example: “Hungry? Try eating something! You’ll be surprised at how well it works!” I’m not sure …
I knew yesterday that I wanted to write an Embrace:Me post today, since I had something else in mind and couldn’t give it its usual Monday night spot. But then I got home from work and started reading about this H&M mini-scandal, and got sort of intrigued by the whole thing. That, of course, made …
