so long ago...
It's astounding how time flies. More than a month since I logegd in for the last time. This is probably because eating and food have become more and more of a routine... something I do to fuel my body and not so much anymore to stuff my feelings. Some things have happened that just feel amazing, let's see... I ordered the book "The Rosedale diet" and although it bears this D word it's quite interesting to read and makes sense. Fish, nuts and green veggies... why not... preparing fish has always been a bit of a challenge for me but I decided to give it a try, start with smoked trout and salmon for breakfast, have some chicken at lunch and either one or the other for dinner, or just a big salad. It does not feel like a food rut, probably because food has become less improtant in general and I don't wonder al lthe time what I should eat today to make it varied and not boring, etc.
I also read about Blake Donaldson and Dr Vilhjalmur Stefansson who spent a lot of time with the Inuit and lived on their diet for quite some time - without problems. He followed the same diet later on, closely monitored by scientists, who did not find anything wrong with him even after living off fish and meat only for a year. Here's a link that may be interesting: http://www.lowcarb.ca/atkins-diet-and-low-carb-plans/eskimo-diet-donaldson.html
I weighed myself once, on October 14, and liked the result wothout paying too much attention to it. Read another interesting book on body image (Astrid Longhurst: Body Confidence) that made a lot of sense as well... well, read a lot quite in general and had some exciting things happen in my life. The movie theater we went to for my son's birthday (me and six pre-teens and teenagers - we all enjoyed it) burnt down 15 minutes after we had left ("science fiction double feature..." no, it was two vampire movies) which kindof shook us all. Some things in life can happen so fast... puts other stuff in perspective in a way. One of my daughters started playing the harp and I joined her - now that was exciting, too, to start over and be an absolute beginner who doesn't even know how to put her thumb the right way. After having read "Machiavelli for Women", dared to talk about some things with my mother and the rest of my family, was honest and open instead of feeling anxious, "not-enough" and like the one black sheep who's always doing the weird things. It was there that I realized how food helped me to gobble down bad feelings, feelings of inadequateness, inappropriate behaviour and whatever. Finished several assignments for the two correspondence courses I'm doing (coaching and nutrition). Spent some time on Sunday and also some time tonight looking for (and finding) mushrooms and thoroughly enjoyed this... haven't been doing that since I was a child.
Well, that's it in a nutshell, to keep this blog updated. I really should have a look at Jimmy^s blog/s right now and see how he's doing. Will do that, so I'll stop here for tonight.
Quite generally speaking, life is much more fun right now - full of stuff as well, no time to get bored and think about food to fill a void. I feel much more alive than some time before, and I notice that it's almost a year now that I joined OA (October 22). This year has seen a lot of changes... even if I can't really follow all of OA's guidelines etc wholeheartedly, it has put a lot of things in motion, got me thinking and out of the rut, and that's something to be grateful for, anyway :-)
I also read about Blake Donaldson and Dr Vilhjalmur Stefansson who spent a lot of time with the Inuit and lived on their diet for quite some time - without problems. He followed the same diet later on, closely monitored by scientists, who did not find anything wrong with him even after living off fish and meat only for a year. Here's a link that may be interesting: http://www.lowcarb.ca/atkins-diet-and-low-carb-plans/eskimo-diet-donaldson.html
I weighed myself once, on October 14, and liked the result wothout paying too much attention to it. Read another interesting book on body image (Astrid Longhurst: Body Confidence) that made a lot of sense as well... well, read a lot quite in general and had some exciting things happen in my life. The movie theater we went to for my son's birthday (me and six pre-teens and teenagers - we all enjoyed it) burnt down 15 minutes after we had left ("science fiction double feature..." no, it was two vampire movies) which kindof shook us all. Some things in life can happen so fast... puts other stuff in perspective in a way. One of my daughters started playing the harp and I joined her - now that was exciting, too, to start over and be an absolute beginner who doesn't even know how to put her thumb the right way. After having read "Machiavelli for Women", dared to talk about some things with my mother and the rest of my family, was honest and open instead of feeling anxious, "not-enough" and like the one black sheep who's always doing the weird things. It was there that I realized how food helped me to gobble down bad feelings, feelings of inadequateness, inappropriate behaviour and whatever. Finished several assignments for the two correspondence courses I'm doing (coaching and nutrition). Spent some time on Sunday and also some time tonight looking for (and finding) mushrooms and thoroughly enjoyed this... haven't been doing that since I was a child.
Well, that's it in a nutshell, to keep this blog updated. I really should have a look at Jimmy^s blog/s right now and see how he's doing. Will do that, so I'll stop here for tonight.
Quite generally speaking, life is much more fun right now - full of stuff as well, no time to get bored and think about food to fill a void. I feel much more alive than some time before, and I notice that it's almost a year now that I joined OA (October 22). This year has seen a lot of changes... even if I can't really follow all of OA's guidelines etc wholeheartedly, it has put a lot of things in motion, got me thinking and out of the rut, and that's something to be grateful for, anyway :-)
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