So for the past few weeks I’ve been struggling with how intuitive eating does or does not fit with weight loss surgery. I don’t have a healthy relationship with food to start with, so I’m admittedly at a disadvantage. We grow up with certain foods being labeled as “bad” and “good”, and some foods being …
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Month:October 2016
Cognitive dissonance
I used to hate the term “cognitive dissonance.” That’s because I had a guy one time use it as the reason to quit seeing me when it was very clear to me at the time that the only dissonance was that I was smart and fun to be with, but I was also fat and …
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Life changes and other musings
Wow. Over a month since I’ve posted anything. I plead life changes, grad school, work, and illness as excuses. Life is beginning to look a LOT different than it did pre-op. I’ll post more on that later. It’s interesting to me how we define moments as life-changing. Life before this event and life after this …
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