Posts Tagged ‘Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a difficult day for many with an eating disorder and even those who have recovered from one. It’s my hope that all readers enjoy this feast day in the spirit it was intended and without a heaping of guilt or even a dash of reservation. If you’re having trouble, check out About.com’s tips [...]

Holy crap. Thanksgiving is this Thursday. My usual holiday anxiety is lessened this year because the issue of food in gluttonous heaps is vastly reduced this year. My in-laws are going out of town for the holiday so the issue of having two dinners no longer exists. My husband and I will also be at [...]

This post will surely be full of whining because, sigh, I’m siiiiiiiiiick! Sorry, but that’s about as informative as the news content will be in this post. I have a stupid flu bug thing. Any time I stand up, I immediately feel dizzy and run to the toilet and empty my stomach’s contents. Even worse, [...]

Newsweek has an article out on Thanksgiving’s forgotten and forlorn: vegetarians. Even if you’re not vegetarian, you might identify with the mixture of unease, paranoia and defensive kinds of feelings that comes from having others watch and scrutinize your food choices at the family feast. Another great read is an open letter opined by a [...]


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This is a blog where a roster of three regular writers and several guest writers comment on the latest news about eating disorders. It isn’t just a news feed, nor a personal journal – it’s a hybrid of both. We discuss the news with our own personal spin.

We aren’t journalists or outsiders looking in. We have eating disorders. We know about this illness because we live it. Some of us are thoroughly active in our eating disorders while some are in recovery. Most are in some state in between.

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