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This is my first, official weight loss progress report for spring 2012 with the first comparison pictures (below)

According to my weigh ins, nothing much has been happening, except confusing fluctuations in weight! In the beginning of April, I weighed 71.1 kg and a week after that 70.6 kg, but after that I have gotten “odd” results –my 4^th weekly weigh in last Friday showed I’m 71.7 kg. [Read more...]

Best Wishes,

This is what normal eating would look like.

A week or two ago I asked Deb from DietSchmiet how many “modes of eating” – besides dieting and bingeing – she recognizes in her life. I wanted to know if there is anything like normal eating in her life, the kind of eating that is somewhere between dieting and bingeing?

I started thinking about what normal eating even means. And even though I didn’t expect it, I managed to arrive at a definition of normal eating that satisfies me.

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The truth is, I’m not so sure I know what normal eating is like. I do remember I had a quite healthy relationship to food and eating when I was a child. I didn’t dwell on food and eating, nor did I feel guilty about eating candy, chocolate or other treats. Food was simply a source of pleasure and nourishment in my life. And of course I was effortlessly thin during that period of my life. (How on Earth did I know to eat so that I didn’t gain weight?)

Then I hit puberty and dieted for the first time, probably at age 14. The rest is history. [Read more...]

Best Wishes,