Posts Tagged new york times
“Pregorexia”
Reading about pregorexia (a term often used to describe preoccupation with weight control through extreme dieting and exercising while pregnant) in a recent New York Times blog post Cathy shared with me, “During Pregnancy, Starving for Two” just made me want to cry.
Part of the reason I’m on this journey to be past my disordered eating behaviors is so I can someday 1) get pregnant and 2) carry and deliver a healthy baby and 3) be a good role model of a mom to my children.
I know every day I don’t engage in DE behaviors makes me one step closer to this someday being a real possiblity: that this will be in my past. Every day I choose to be kind to my body, fuel it well, work it moderately … I’m doing my body, mind and soul a favor. (more…)
12 comments June 4, 2009
Good Read
A friend passed this article on to me from Sunday’s New York Times, called Bingeing On Celebrity Weight Battles.”
Definitely a good read that speaks to pretty much the cover of every celebrity rag out there. The article made some really valid points.
I know that I fall victim to reading the celebrity rags for entertainment, but I am so sick of seeing every celebrity moaning about their weight, or going on some crash diet and then “reappearing” looking thin again, saying they felt “massive” or “huge” at their former weight (i.e., often my weight, or worse, my weight when I was at goal, which was not maintainable for me anyway!!) (more…)
5 comments May 31, 2009
Good Read: Judith Warner
I found Judith Warner’s column in yesterday’s New York Times to be noteworthy and relevant here on my blog, so I’m sharing it today.
Take a peek at “Not-So-Great Expectations”.
Thoughts? It was very fitting in conjunction with my blog entry today, seen below.
5 comments May 8, 2009
Breaking Bread
Kind of off-topic post, but interesting nonetheless for our foodies out there.
The New York Time’s food critic, Frank Bruni, wrote this blog post today, Our Nightly Bread, which explores a positive side to restaurants charging for bread and butter these days.
As someone who loves, loves, loves warm crusty bread dunked in deliciously-herbed olive oil at good Italian restaurants (but could easily pass it up if it’s sub-par) I thought it was worth sharing.
Take a read and let me know what you think about charging for bread during tough economic times.
As for me, I’d rather pay for it and get the good, good stuff, then see a stale, wasted basket taking up space on the table!
2 comments April 28, 2009
Kids and “Bad” Food Anxiety?!
I found this recent New York Times article that piqued my interest, called, “What’s Eating Our Kids? Fears About ‘Bad’ Foods.”
I want my kids someday (when I have them) to have a healthy relationship with food. I want them to know fruits and veggies and whole grains and low-fat dairy are yummy, but I also don’t want them to freak out if someone offers them an ice cream cone. I want them to be able to enjoy the special treat without another kid (or mother) commenting.
I’m not a mom yet, but I still have an opinion on this: it’s one thing to encourage healthy eating habits (recently Michelle Obama’s been talking a lot about how her family find that balance between health and pleasure with respect to food), but it’s another thing to ban foods altogether — which can lead to binge eating behavior later in life or an unhealthy relationship with food (like I’ve experienced). (more…)
7 comments March 25, 2009
The Health Halo
I found a great article in Tuesday’s Health section of the New York Times, titled “Health Halo Can Hide the Calories”.
The article’s author (John Tierney) and Pierre Chandon, a Frenchman who has been studying what researchers call the American obesity paradox, conducted an experiment in New York City (which banned trans fats in restaurants) to discover “Why, as Americans have paid more and more attention to eating healthily, have we kept getting fatter and fatter?”
Dr. Chandon’s answer, which was derived from laboratory experiments as well as field work at Subway and McDonald’s restaurants, is that Americans have been “seduced into overeating by the so-called health halo associated with certain foods and restaurants.”
So what is a health halo exactly? It’s certain restaurants touting their low-fat entrees or sandwiches that delude consumers. The authors argue that this “health halo” ends up cushioning us from the realities of what lies beneath the surface. (more…)
10 comments December 2, 2008
Article Worth Sharing
In Tuesday’s New York Times, there was a good muti-media piece called Patient Voices: Eating Disorders.
Sometimes it’s good to see someone else’s perspectives on the demons we face — or are at risk of facing.
It makes me feel lucky that I’m not only seeking therapy now, but also living through blogotherapy as well, hitting this from two angles and making progress.
I hope you, too, are finding yourself healing as time goes on. Happy Friday!
2 comments October 17, 2008
